Example sentences of "and by [art] end " in BNC.

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1 The Sprinter DMUs , conventionally engineered units built by BREL , Leyland and Metro-Cammell , Classes 150 , 151 , 154 , 155 , 156 and 158 , were considerably more successful and by the end of the decade in charge of the mainstay of Provincial services literally from Wick to Penzance .
2 On the evidence of our multiple regression analysis , partisanship exerted a consistently powerful influence on perceptions of Labour chances and by the end of the campaign it was the only remaining significant influence .
3 His heart was not strong either , and by the end of the month he was confined to his bed .
4 At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa .
5 The symmetrical and classical looking house was new reaching every corner of England and by the end of the eighteenth century our traditional , organic and unselfconscious architecture was fast disappearing .
6 Sure it started out lukewarm , but once people saw him they went crazy , and by the end of the given tour , he had a totally devoted following because he 's a brilliant performer .
7 Indeed , since 1986 unit labour costs have risen more slowly in France than Germany , and by the end of this year France 's rate of consumer-price inflation could be lower than Germany 's .
8 He was written about enthusiastically in the New York Times , offered a recording contract by CBS Records , and by the end of that year was cutting his first album .
9 If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries .
10 The two girls stayed up for hours , and by the end of the evening a date had been arranged for the Paris adventure , and Clarissa had confided her plan for the Saturday afternoon of the visit .
11 Gelding or not , John Henry was quite a horse , and by the end of his first season with Rubin he had won six races , including five on grass ( of which two were Stakes races ) .
12 About half the audience had gone by the interval and by the end he was virtually alone .
13 And by the end of 1989 the accountant 's daughter was at the centre of one of the most efficient management machines the entertainment world has yet seen , merciless marketing wringing seemingly every dollar , Deutschmark , pound and yen out of her global popularity .
14 Undaunted , he opened dozens of new stores , and by the end of his life predicted that the company 's revenues would quintuple over the next decade .
15 An Honourable Death is an imaginative recreation of the life of Hector MacDonald , the son of a Highland stonemason who ran away to the Army when 17 and by the end of the last century had become the hero of several adventures in far-flung parts of the British Empire .
16 But she comes into her own at the not-bloody-likely tea party ; and by the end , she has achieved just the right blend of poignancy and pride .
17 Now it has 200 and by the end of the year there will be close to 400 .
18 Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton .
19 For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday .
20 It took him fifteen minutes and by the end his hand was sore from all the shaking .
21 The company has its own customer information system named CARGOLINK and by the end of the present year all the company 's offices will be using this system thus enabling the organisation to control each individual consignment during the transport from booking to final delivery to end user .
22 Quite a variety of Silurian plants are now known , and by the end of the Devonian it is apparent that most of the problems of terrestrial living had been solved , to the extent that large tree ‘ ferns ’ of the time would have had dimensions comparable with forest trees today .
23 The bowls were then sold to onlookers and by the end of the day over £1,000 had been raised for the storm appeal .
24 The name stuck and by the end of the day it seemed to Murray that every child in the school covertly sniggered ‘ Toady ’ as he passed .
25 So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency .
26 Substances that blocked the actions of histamine were discovered from the late 1930s onwards , and by the end of the 1940s were well known as ‘ antihistamines ’ .
27 He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout .
28 Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate .
29 Too many Cooks did not spoil the travellers ' broth and by the end of the nineteenth century Cooks had offices across Europe and America , Australia and New Zealand , Canada , the Middle East and India .
30 The experiment worked and by 1954 Raitz 's Horizon Holidays had taken off and by the end of the fifties he was offering holidays on the Costa Brava , the Costa del Sol , in Portugal , Minorca and Tangiers .
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