Example sentences of "end of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
| 2 | Imagine an economy in which the wage rate for half its workers is set at the end of every even period to cover the following two periods , while the wage rate for the other half is set at the end of every odd period , again to cover the following two periods . |
| 3 | Scruton seeks to build an explicitly conservative sexual ethic on the Hegelian proposition that ‘ the final end of every rational being is the building of the self — of a recognisable personal entity , which flourishes according to its own autonomous nature ’ ( p. 299 ) . |
| 4 | But a bowler who does not break down at the end of every other over and who can finish each season with an average around the 25 mark would be worth his weight in gold now . |
| 5 | Only the orphan until the final chapter , when even she would sit by a warm fire , rescued at last from a cruel world and adult depredations by the long-lost loving parent who waits at the end of every unhappy child 's rainbow . |
| 6 | Royalty was to be one-twelfth and this to be paid at the end of every half-year : the said ore to be weighed up every three months and the banks to be cleared at the end of every such three months after weighing up . |
| 7 | Was it at the end of every two ? |
| 8 | At the end of every round off came the gold knob and up went the stick . |
| 9 | The strategy must be to seek to ensure that the defendants bear the costs , at the end of every successful case , of every application for inspection made in the face of an unreasonable refusal of access . |
| 10 | This is the only mention found of Miller 's diary , without doubt one diligently kept at the end of every long day , and it is indeed regrettable that this meticulous record of his day-to-day activities and achievements at the Chelsea Physic Garden has not survived . |
| 11 | An epiphysis may be defined as ‘ a cartilaginous area present at each end of every long bone of the limbs , on the upper and lower faces of the vertebral bodies and in certain other locations where special processes are required for the attachment of muscles ’ ( Watson & Lowrey , 19512 ) . |
| 12 | The marriage she had assumed naïvely would be the end of every serious relationship now seemed a very distant — if not unreachable — shore . |
| 13 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 14 | On giving up as a player , Ken was a natural choice for chairman and , as he did at the end of every subsequent season , promised sweeping changes and League football by 1992 . |
| 15 | In other words , prices are set at the end of every even period ( 0 , 2 , 4 , and so on ) to cover the next two periods . |
| 16 | Imagine an economy in which the wage rate for half its workers is set at the end of every even period to cover the following two periods , while the wage rate for the other half is set at the end of every odd period , again to cover the following two periods . |
| 17 | And at the end of every exhilarating day , long summer evenings are spent in the warm welcome of a country hotel where you can relax in the company of newly made friends . |
| 18 | The lease required a proportion of one-twelfth of " waste ore " to be made available at the end of every three years and made saleable — failure to do so resulting in forfeiture of all such material . |
| 19 | This afternoon we 'll it says in the instruction , at the end of every third tape change the batteries , so er , we 'll take them two out tomorrow |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " 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 ) . |
| 29 | They landed at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at the end of a two thousand mile journey from Northern Russia . |
| 30 | 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 . |