Example sentences of "end of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 2 | She knew then , as he stared at her icily that she was going to be on the receiving end of a straightforward , ‘ Not , ’ at any moment now . |
| 3 | These vehicles , or ‘ rigs ’ as they are normally called , were just some of those in use with 28 Amphibious Engineer Regiment on that stifling June afternoon , and the troop was nearing the end of a three-week Commanding Officer 's Exercise . |
| 4 | Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis and all but one of his ministers won the support of the Supreme Council in votes of no confidence held on Oct. 21 at the end of a three-week debate . |
| 5 | Philip Ettinger , 37 , the brains behind the bid to launch the link , today revealed the new move which coincides with the end of a three-week consultation period when objections to his proposals must be lodged . |
| 6 | Ask your local delicatessen to keep the end of a new Parma ham for you , or put in a bid for the unsliceable knuckle end . |
| 7 | An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership , might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day , which was usually at the end of a two month term . |
| 8 | Her qualification comes at the end of a two year distance learning course , during which time Irene had to attend Robert Gordon 's University for five days every three months , complete and pass six modules as well as writing a 10,000 word research based dissertation . |
| 9 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 10 | They landed at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at the end of a two thousand mile journey from Northern Russia . |
| 11 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 12 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 13 | This might seem like the end of a successful story , but far from it ! |
| 14 | When my colliery closes it will be the end of a forward-producing era . ’ |
| 15 | On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] . |
| 16 | The eggshell-blue sky — the colour of the end of a perfect day . |
| 17 | ‘ Here I am facing Liverpool in my first game as a fully-fledged Coventry player , so if I can put one over them , it will be the end of a perfect week . ’ |
| 18 | It was wonderful skiing on this warm , sunny day amongst the crevasses and ice cliffs , then onto the classic Vallee Blanche run at the end of a perfect day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But the other British hope , Port Talbot 's John Price , was on the receiving end of a similar scoreline from Brisbane 's Rob Parrella . |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever happens , we will be involved in the scenario until the end of a momentous season . |
| 22 | The dead man was taken at the end of a winding procession , with one man from every house in the village barefoot and carrying a log for the pyre . |
| 23 | The village church , tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane , is dedicated to St Mary . |
| 24 | At the end of a four-year-long tour this week the 46-year-old told a New York audience it could be her ‘ last live show ever ’ . |
| 25 | The only time we may ask you to make out a new schedule is , if at the end of a twelve months period , the amount owing on your Home Management Account is higher than one monthly transfer . |
| 26 | He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that . |
| 27 | Eventually , in January 1981 , the remaining 52 hostages were freed when $7.9 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets were returned marking the end of a humiliating experience for the world 's wealthiest and apparently most powerful nation . |
| 28 | HAD GENERAL Manuel Noriega been overthrown by rebel troops , it would have meant the end of a two-year political crisis that has wrecked Panama 's economy and brought political embarrassment and frustration to the United States . |
| 29 | Many subjects are still examined by a single pass-or-fail hurdle at the end of a two-year course , and the failure rate is around 30 per cent . |
| 30 | And in 1959 , Suffolk welcomed the end of a 57 day drought . |