Example sentences of "and end with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the cheapest bed should have five layers of upholstery usually starting with a thick layer of padding over the springs and ending with the decorative cover . |
| 2 | A clue comes with the final disappearance of the cat , when it slowly vanishes , starting with the end of its tail and ending with the broad grin , which remains some time after the rest of the animal has gone . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) In this paragraph ’ financial year ’ means the period beginning with the date on which the Funding Council is established and ending with the second 31st March following that date , and each successive period of twelve months . |
| 4 | British politics in the 1930s were often disillusioning for the labour movement , starting with the defection of the Labour Party 's leadership and the Party 's electoral eclipse , and ending with the Second World War , which destroyed the party 's hope of peace through disarmament and the League of Nations . |
| 5 | STARTING with a crash and ending with the tightest finish in America 's Cup sailing , the fourth race of the Louis Vuitton challenger semi-finals off San Diego was both memorable and miserable , writes Tim Jeffery . |
| 6 | The target 's circular to shareholders must disclose purchases and redemptions made over the period commencing 12 months prior to the offer period and ending with the latest practicable date prior to the posting of the document . |
| 7 | It begins with an attempted rape and a murder , contains scenes of spine-chilling horror when the murder victim 's marble effigy comes to life in the graveyard and then accepts its murderer 's invitation to supper , and ends with the unrepentant libertine being dragged down to hell by demons . |
| 8 | For fairly obvious reasons the conversations begin with one of the most recent entrants to the profession , and ends with the two most senior actors . |
| 9 | The threnody begins and ends with the two figures , either side of the picture , lying wounded on the deck , one horizontally aligned with the picture surface , the other in a near vertical position . |
| 10 | the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’ |
| 11 | You start with one vowel , go on to another and end with the third . |
| 12 | She was followed by Michael Foot who made a strong attack on the Government and ended with the devastating charge that the Falkland Islanders had been betrayed and ‘ the whole responsibility for the betrayal rests with the Government ’ . |
| 13 | It began with the murder of John Lennon and ended with the Rolling Stones back on the road . |
| 14 | North called it ‘ a bit of a horror story ’ and , for once , he understated : it went wrong from start to finish , and ended with the wrong missiles , still with their Israeli markings , piled on the ground in Tehran . |
| 15 | The Eighties began with The Magic Of Boney M and ended with the never-ending saga of the Rolling Stones . |
| 16 | Some of the documents contain several trust clauses in succession , which confirms the impression that their use began with the practical and ended with the formulaic . |