Example sentences of "end of [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I even made the occasional trip into the West End of an evening to see the latest music-hall star .
2 Meanwhile the East End of the city looks like a polluted , litter-strewn beach after the tide has gone out : derelict , depressed , abandoned .
3 Mr Bond , whose round covers the West End of the town , said all the milkmen were happy to help .
4 Other BNP activists were at work in the West End of the town .
5 Assumptions ( ii ) and ( iii ) may present considerable problems in practise for in reality loads are never applied to the ends of a sample , but to its side-ends , and so the uniformity of stress across the sample is called into question .
6 We see her so with Theseus again on a near-contemporary Attic cup ( fig. 98 ) ; and it is presumably in the same role that she dominates the latest and best preserved of all archaic pediments , at the two ends of a temple on Aegina , dedicated to Aphaia , a local deity associated with Artemis rather than Athena .
7 Usually these styles are presented as opposite ends of a continuum .
8 The arch consists of two sets of colossal forearms , each weighing 20 tons and higher than the Arc de Triomphe , which seem to burst from the ground at opposite ends of a 90-metre public space .
9 The ends of a helix can be joined to form a continuous ring or torus .
10 If , for some reason , the time of high tide is different at the two ends of a strait , there will obviously develop a strong gradient between the two , giving rise to a tidal current which in narrow straits can become very strong .
11 It would , of course , be a mistake to think that all hoards fall into one or other of these categories : they are the opposite ends of a spectrum along which most hoards in reality lie .
12 These are ‘ stewardship ’ and ‘ accountability ’ , and they represent the two ends of a spectrum of reporting possibilities .
13 Either of these styles — which here represent different ends of a spectrum — is widely accepted as a norm of academic discourse .
14 A rat , for instance , carried passively to each of two ‘ goal boxes ’ at opposite ends of a runway and shown that one contains food and the other does not will , when released , run unerringly to the box with food .
15 And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination .
16 If the retina is a square array with n photocells along each edge , then there are n(n-1)/2 pairs in it which can be the ends of a line .
17 Other significant phenomena which have emerged from such studies are that simple reversals of the numbers are a common form of error , accurate reproduction is facilitated by deliberate grouping in twos or threes and the ends of a span seem to be less prone to error than the middle .
18 In Sinhalese imagery the two ends of a coconut represent respectively the penis of a man and the breasts of a woman and the preliminary separation of the two ends is appropriate at the beginning of a wedding which is to unite male and female .
19 This had nothing whatsoever to do with fabrics , referring instead to an alternative to upholstery nails : tin-dipped filigree stamped iron available in rolls of — it must be presumed — twenty yards , a length sufficient to outline the lid , sides and ends of a coffin , such as that on the outer case of Lord Vere Bertie ( d.1770 ) in the Wray vault at All Saints ' , Branston , in Lincolnshire .
20 She pointed one foot forward , then the other , changing back and forth like Columbine at the ends of a puppet master 's fingers .
21 The graph is connected if any two nodes in it are the ends of a path .
22 The decorative ends of a curtain rod , either wood or brass .
23 In the language of engineers , power is said to " flow " whenever the " potential " at the two ends of a channel is unequal .
24 Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel .
25 She plucked a great hank of silk thread from the girdle of her spinsterhood ; tied one end of it to the wedding ring of her virginity and , looping the two ends of the hank over either wrist , spread her hands and invited Maggie to take the other end and wind a neat ball .
26 The outcome turned on the block votes of union delegations at opposite ends of the conflict ; for and against establishing a separate body .
27 Hydrophobic interactions predominate near the ends of the helices , with a lattice of hydrogen-bonds in the centre linking Thr37 to Gln44 , and Arg40 to Arg40 by water molecules .
28 For extra effect I added tassels to the ends of the scarf .
29 Preston tried to keep his fears from the twins but he also kept them as far from the edges and ends of the platform as he possibly could in case of beast attacks .
30 ‘ For several years householders have been very anti to anglers at both the Ham street and Ruckinge ends of the water , ’ said Robin Wadham .
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