Example sentences of "the [adj] end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They take a trip in a ‘ means of communication ’ to the limits of language at the ultra-violet end of the verbal spectrum , and Someone is fuelled by the ‘ internal combustion ’ of words ( 22/218,51/247 ) . |
| 2 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 3 | I watched Pa mark the first blade with yellow chalk , pull down his welder 's mask , then winch up the grinding wheel till it just pinged against the right-hand end of the blades , throwing a couple of sparks . |
| 4 | Moving towards the right-hand end of the spectrum , another landmark point is the probability of a perfect deal in bridge , where each of the four players receives a complete suit of cards . |
| 5 | If on some planet there are beings with a lifetime of a million centuries , their spotlight of comprehensible risk will extend that much farther towards the right-hand end of the continuum . |
| 6 | There — at the narrow end of the gulley . |
| 7 | If you do proceed with your venturi , then the principle is very simple : using solvent weld cement , glue a conical reducing piece into the intended pipe so that the narrow end of the ‘ nozzle ’ is just into the place where the upright venturi pipe connects in . |
| 8 | The chambered shell ( phragmocone ) is less conspicuous — it is tucked into the broad end of the fossil guard , where the series of closely-spaced septa reveal the cephalopod nature of these otherwise somewhat featureless fossils . |
| 9 | Trichomonas vaginalis is a protozoon , a one-celled animal which moves about by means of flagellae which work like flexible oars from the broad end of this pear-shaped organism . |
| 10 | The columns normally tapered downward , the broad end of the inverted tree trunk supporting the capital and architrave beams . |
| 11 | Thus one has a staircase with rounded steps , but to disguise the edges it is necessary to fill the hollow ends of the pipes with concrete or soil and suitably hide them with plants . |
| 12 | The fifth man is , he was a gunner and armourer and flew in the and the man furthest on the right standing is from Chualar C H U A L A R California , he was a waste gunner for two waste gunners on the each end of the standing group . |
| 13 | Radiological studies are not able to precisely define the muscular end of the oesophagus and when a Barrett 's oesophagus is present with gastric mucosa lining the distal oesophagus , it can easily be mistaken for a hiatal hernia . |
| 14 | On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced . |
| 15 | The death of a spouse and loss of job merit the highest stress rating , and the low end of the scale includes holidays and Christmas ! |
| 16 | But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’ |
| 17 | The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business . |
| 18 | A dozen years ago , Zilog Corp with the Z80 , Micropro International Corp with WordStar , Digital Research Inc with CP/M , Software Arts Inc with VisiCalc , Wang Laboratories Inc with its office systems , ruled the low end of the industry — the end that was poised for explosive growth over the next decade : where are they now ? |
| 19 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 20 | At the low end of the market there are small , single user systems that replace your trusty filing cabinet , like Canon 's Canofile 250 from £13,000 . |
| 21 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |
| 22 | ‘ At that time Whitedown Road was known as the posh end of town , ’ chuckled Leslie . |
| 23 | The posh end of the market was dominated by new-wave consumer journalism which was turning into a grotesque parody of the ‘ lifestyle ’ politics the Right-Ons had pioneered . |
| 24 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 25 | King lived in an age when growth rates changed only slowly so that his greatest concern was the possible end of the world ! |
| 26 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 27 | The prevalence of conflict in Gascony during this period reflects the vulnerability of minors to the political ends of their elders . |
| 28 | Just as a queen bee unwittingly hosts tiny mites that have specialized to graze on her mouth parts , so at the bottommost end of the city did Kefalov house its recycler and scavenger tribes . |
| 29 | According to Pope he had ‘ ev'ry virtue under heav'n ’ , while his wife said that ‘ humility , tenderness , patience , generosity , charity to men 's souls and bodies , was the sole end of all his projects , and the business of his life ’ . |
| 30 | I feel sorry for people that are dumped into a civilisation such as ours and they are taking the sticky end of the stick in these low-rated factories . |