Example sentences of "end of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a caution period ( ie , a period of brief interruption in the race ) , Mr Mansell was a fraction of a second too slow to respond to the green flag restart . |
| 2 | At the end of a year our judges will choose the best tip of all , and the winner will receive a holiday for two in Thailand , plus £500 spending money . |
| 3 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 4 | The action , brought by Australia 's third largest bank , comes at the end of a year during which Mr Bond — best known for brewing Castlemaine XXXX lager and his 1985 triumph in the America 's Cup yacht challenge — has fought a desperate battle to keep his creditors at bay . |
| 5 | At the end of a year our judges will choose the best tip of all , and the winner will receive a holiday for two in Thailand , plus £500 spending money . |
| 6 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 7 | At the end of a year Gabriel went to visit the eldest brother . |
| 8 | At the end of a year it 's good to look back and to feel that you have made some progress in your spiritual life . |
| 9 | It is particularly appropriate that this first annual review from the Institute and Faculty comes at the end of a year which has seen so much co-operation between our two organisations . |
| 10 | Age-specific rates are often calculated as averages over three years , partly to reduce instability of the statistics in older , almost empty , age classes , and partly to obviate problems due to especially bad weather at the end of a year causing early demise of those who would otherwise die the following year . |
| 11 | It is traditional to find a chapter on defences at the end of a tort textbook . |
| 12 | The end of a paratone is marked in a way similar to the ‘ turn signal ’ discussed by those who investigate conversational discourse as a process of social interaction ( cf. |
| 13 | And there 's certainly no end of a palaver when a patient ‘ takes matters into his own hands ’ , with the electrified fence , for example . |
| 14 | The argument is , therefore , that a form of behaviour which effectively negotiates the end of a conflict can be evolutionarily stable . |
| 15 | They 've got all this digital equipment and yet they 're standing down the end of a corridor … |
| 16 | His hair , similarly , has collapsed onto his head so that at first — I see him at the end of a corridor — he appears to be completely bald . |
| 17 | At the end of a corridor of panelled mahogany was the boardroom where the black-bearded Paul and his clean-shaven , white-faced brother , Albert , awaited me . |
| 18 | This turned out to be a pair of double doors at the end of a corridor . |
| 19 | Small tables for two can make very good use of the wasted space at the end of a corridor . |
| 20 | The relation between teachers and their pupils will change , and there are many who will regret the end of a kind of understanding and friendliness that can make teaching itself both easier and more rewarding . |
| 21 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 22 | The issue of access to the marital home at the end of a marriage is a very important one , since to lose one 's home is a serious disincentive for a woman to leave an unhappy marriage . |
| 23 | Mrs. Telfer , who is joint-funded by Hampshire County Council and the Winchester Diocese , explained that there was usually a team of coordinators running a scheme from the end of a telephone . |
| 24 | ‘ That you ’ When the offender is on the other end of a telephone this point is usually difficult to prove . |
| 25 | Erm it can hear from the other side of the of Mike 's living room it can hear the person on the other end of a telephone connection which is is is is |
| 26 | The systems verifiers are at the end of a telephone and can be contacted by phoning the numbers below . |
| 27 | So what 's the worst I can get , at the end of a telephone session , the worst is that I 'll end up with three appointments . |
| 28 | I run the search room there , which means that erm people come into Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk and the end of a telephone , and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure that they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strong rooms that we 've got . |
| 29 | That 's right , yes , I run the Search Room there , which means that erm people come in to Pelham House , they usually meet me at a desk on the end of a telephone and I put them onto the documents that they want to look at and I make sure they 're ordered up from where they 're kept in one of the various repositories and strongrooms that we 've got , and then I produce them for them and erm if they need any help reading them and so on I give them that . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Maule pointed out the absurdity of them when he came to his summing-up at the end of a trial for bigamy : |