Example sentences of "but at [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a need for close and on-going liaison with the regions and PTEs , but at the end of the day it is the sector that calls the tune . |
| 2 | But at the end of 1989 Mark 2s were still well in evidence ( particularly the air-conditioned types ) and Mark 1 coaches will still be found on occasional reliefs or specials as well as some daily Network SouthEast locomotive-hauled services ( especially out of Paddington ) for some time to come . |
| 3 | But at the end of the conference season , it is possible to see a political market-place reviving in Britain , albeit a market-place containing only two parties . |
| 4 | I 've been involved in community projects and I can say I enjoy going into schools , but at the end of the day there will always need to be the regulated type of policing of crime and violence . |
| 5 | He worked for compromises between the ‘ Wets ’ and Mrs Thatcher , but at the end always backed Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | You can have the finest degree in the world , but at the end of the day you are judged as an individual and on your performance and them things begin to happen . |
| 7 | ‘ The other board members will expect to have their say , but at the end of the day they expect , and accept , that the chairman should decide . ’ |
| 8 | There have been several false alarms in the tabloids , but at the end of 1986 reporters thought they had a scoop . |
| 9 | A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing . |
| 10 | They talked sensibly , for full half an hour , but at the end of it Wilson felt neither clearer nor happier , only numb . |
| 11 | But at the end of the day , superb machine though it is , the Mercedes is still just another Mercedes — one of more than half-a-million produced annually , all bearing the famous silver star . |
| 12 | The progress of this relationship is n't altogether clear but at the end of the book he describes the Italian male lover as a ‘ sleepy tomcat ’ and Vittoria 's life as subject to frequent phases of ‘ wailing neck biting followed by complacent indifference ’ from such men . |
| 13 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 14 | But at the end , we are alone , and only in the lives and memories of our children , our friends and our work can we hope to be remembered . |
| 15 | Norway 's biggest gas field of all — Troll — is intended to supply the European market but at the end of 1984 no agreements had been concluded . |
| 16 | During most of the war , the partisan movement in Kosovo was weak , but at the end of 1943 , after the surrender of the Italians , the Yugoslav Party organized a conference at Bujan , in Albanian territory , with the aim of establishing a national liberation committee for Kosovo . |
| 17 | But at the end , the story tells you about you . ’ |
| 18 | Ulpian 's own case is concerned with trusts , but at the end of his text , in the course of citing the rescript , mention of legacies is made . |
| 19 | Stan Wickenden concedes that the Californians ‘ have a marvellous system , with everything mechanised and pure , but at the end of the day there 's no taste ’ |
| 20 | … but at the end of the day , it really lacks depth |
| 21 | That 's nice , but at the end of the day what is the foundation of pop music ? |
| 22 | Derek White is a very good player and I respect him , but at the end of the day he 's only human ’ , he said . |
| 23 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 24 | ‘ But at the end of the day , we both realise it is each other 's happiness which matters most . ’ |
| 25 | But at the end of 1990 the group was reorganised and Mr Wise was less happy with the outcome : ‘ I found the general direction in which the group was going did n't really satisfy me in terms of long-term interests or challenge , so I decided to bite the bullet . ’ |
| 26 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 27 | But at the end of the thirteenth century Pope Boniface VIII tried to condemn the practice , especially as it was sometimes carried out in the side chapels of churches , which were deemed appropriate ‘ kitchens ’ . |
| 28 | But at the end of October , a diary entry reads : ‘ Was weighed and have gained 2 lbs — am now 7 st , 3 lbs ! |
| 29 | ‘ But at the end of it all we still have our little star . |
| 30 | She was involved in some of the student protests against them during that period ; but at the end of the day she still felt that an English education was a necessary tool for survival for her children . |