Example sentences of "at the [adj] end [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 2 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 4 | Second , the hierarchy of residential roads has been deepened by the addition of a series of new classifications at the low-volume end as Figure 7.2 shows . |
| 5 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 6 | The first R/3 pilot site in the UK is a subsidiary of German natural detergents company , Henkel Chemicals AG , which will run R/3 on a Hewlett-Packard 890/200 database server accessed by X-terminals at the front end and serving 250 users . |
| 7 | Start at the far end and work back . ’ |
| 8 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 9 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 10 | The bed was at the far end and next to it was a small cabinet on which stood a lamp and a telephone … the telephone through which the dying , terrified Angy had tried to summon help . |
| 11 | It was a large field and I could see the barn at the far end as I walked with the tall grass brushing my knees . |
| 12 | There was another MP sitting on a chair outside the room at the far end where the passage ran into a blank wall . |
| 13 | Along the north side wall , beginning at the eastern end and for some 250ft was the machine row , which consisted of cross-cut and band-saws , mortising machines , planers , two spoke machines , wheel lathe , trimming machine , boring machines etc . |
| 14 | Also in this bay at the eastern end and alongside the machine row was the ‘ truck and barrow ’ gang . |
| 15 | The entrance is generally at the western end and , opposite on the other side , is an apse where the altar is housed in the sanctuary . |
| 16 | But he gets the best : the person who provides the real thing ( a contribution to profitability ) , the person who 's been at the sharp end and actually cut a profit from the edge . |
| 17 | The shoulder straps were to bear the rank insignia at the outer end and , for ranks below colonel , the coat of arms in the centre . |
| 18 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 19 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 20 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 21 | Now McFall either jumps in at the deep end or dithers and backs off — he never falls off . |
| 22 | She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died . |
| 23 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 24 | So her husband brought the case in the Guild room on the Tuesday night and erm I was sort of throw 'd in at the deep end because they were mostly older women and they all said , oh well you 're secretary erm yo I said yes , but I do n't know the Co-op dual structure . |
| 25 | Increased weight at the republican end calls for increased weight at the loyalist end and the rise of Sinn Fein has added to the appeal of Paisley 's political postures . |
| 26 | Back came Portsmouth and Colin Clark 's header well held by Ken Vasey at the other end while two minutes later , Jim Magilton turned well on the edge of the Portsmouth penalty area , but his dipping shot was well held by the visitor 's goal keeper , Andy Gosney . |
| 27 | He could hear somebody talking urgently at the other end but his mind was still scrambled and he could not decipher the words . |
| 28 | Repeat at the other end but leave the cords free . |
| 29 | I could n't convince them at the other end that I needed an ambulance because I was outside the hospital . |
| 30 | Close the handwheel valve at one end , and remove the cover of the lockshield valve at the other end so you can close it by turning its spindle with pliers or a small spanner . |