Example sentences of "at a [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 2 | Wolpe , at a different end of the political spectrum , has only this to say about higher education : |
| 3 | The methods of assessment are far more flexible , so that trainees can acquire qualifications whenever they wish and not , solely , at a formal end of term examination . |
| 4 | And they had to change because apartheid was at a dead end the people of South Africa were continuing with their struggle the country was ungovernable and there stood the prospect of more sanctions which would bring the noose around the apartheid system . |
| 5 | Elean : So the story Devil at a Dead End , which deals with some of the experiences of a young Black South African girl crossing the border from Lesotho , was drawn from your own experiences ? |
| 6 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
| 7 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 9 | put most simply , being at a loose end leads men to the vice of drunkenness and the crime of murder ; and the jobless Marmeladov and the ex-student Raskolnikov are both very pointedly at a loose end . |
| 10 | put most simply , being at a loose end leads men to the vice of drunkenness and the crime of murder ; and the jobless Marmeladov and the ex-student Raskolnikov are both very pointedly at a loose end . |
| 11 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 12 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 13 | From the novelist 's journalism and notebooks and letters we glean the almost comically unresonant information that being at a loose end leads men to drunkenness and murder . |
| 14 | being at a loose end is not the condition of us spiritual and working animals , it is not being a man among men . |
| 15 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 16 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 17 | She was between jobs , at a loose end , Camb had gathered , otherwise nothing would have induced her to accompany her parents . |
| 18 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 19 | Tim tries massaging my lower back during the contraction and it feels great — he wo n't be at a loose end from now on ! |
| 20 | Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ? |
| 21 | Youths who had left the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Doncaster roamed the streets at a loose end , causing mischief . |
| 22 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
| 23 | He was at a loose end . |
| 24 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 25 | In India we missionaries were at a loose end . |
| 26 | He showed his surprise on his face now as she leaned still further over the counter and whispered , ‘ The sleeping beauty 's at a loose end : she 's off from three . ’ |
| 27 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 28 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 29 | The Shakespeare School of English had switched off its neon light for a couple of months , and Oliver was at a loose end . |
| 30 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |