Example sentences of "at the opposite end of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 2 | But before Budd came on , they had to listen to Andy Roberts , who stands at the opposite end of ufology to Hopkins and whose new book , Phantoms Of The Sky ( written with Dave Clarke , published by Robert Hale ) , gave the conference its name . |
| 3 | At the opposite end of the spectrum there are elderly people for whom death can become an all too familiar experience as their family and friends of the same age gradually die , leaving them more and more isolated . |
| 4 | As Bishop Edward King , at the opposite end of the English religious spectrum from Nonconformists , noted , ‘ We live in an age of decoration … |
| 5 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , there were problems also in the definition of specialization . |
| 6 | There are plenty of bars and cafes , many of them featuring live music , or at the opposite end of the scale operetta ! |
| 7 | At the opposite end of the scale from the phylum is the smallest unit of classification usually used for fossils : the species . |
| 8 | Robyn took a seat at the opposite end of the table from Wilcox . |
| 9 | At the opposite end of the scale is the barbel , and while he does not require to be outwitted to the same extent as bream , he does make landing him extremely difficult . |
| 10 | At the opposite end of the scale is a bite that is very difficult to detect if you are not conversant with the art of touch-legering ( see pages 14–17 ) . |
| 11 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 12 | A kitchen is positioned at the opposite end of the dining saloon . |
| 13 | At the opposite end of the village from the schoolroom , an open space , marked by a granite memorial from Point Hicks , indicates the spot where Cook 's father built his retirement cottage . |
| 14 | At the opposite end of the scale is the 1956 Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 4 performed with a full-bodied string section that will surely appear heavy-handed for present-day tastes . |
| 15 | At the opposite end of the prickliness scale are the ‘ Ferox ’ forms of the common holly . |
| 16 | So it is at the opposite end of the scale — with the small sums lent by weekly credit collectors — that the personal interview in the home is the rule . |
| 17 | We may compare the intricacy of the production of small objects , such as brooches and musical instruments which were both functional as well as objects of beauty , with craftsmanship at the opposite end of the scale which involved complex carpentry as well as considerable effort , for example boat building and house construction . |
| 18 | As before , any shaping must be conducted at the opposite end of the knitting to the carriage . |
| 19 | At the opposite end of the graven floor , a second mighty bowl held darker balls , composed no doubt of the bodily secretions of the third degree likewise embalmed in amber . |
| 20 | At the opposite end of the spectrum of alternative art venues is the Schneiderei collective 's presentation until 19 December of American , Alan Uglow 's , ‘ In the Name of the Game ’ , a series of Minimalist paintings executed in the enamel used for street signs and complemented by a sound recording of the noise of a football crowd at Cologne Stadium . |
| 21 | It also introduced its 325SLi ‘ ultra portable performance notebook ’ and , at the opposite end of the market , a high-end network server ; the 400/XE . |
| 22 | Friaries such as those at Aylesbury and Coventry could hardly have owned much anyway , but at the opposite end of the scale , the omission of rich abbeys like Cirencester and Tewkesbury leaves a serious gap . |
| 23 | At the opposite end of the pole there is the view of sociology as a completely objective , non-evaluative discipline , a way of looking at societies and developing knowledge about social behaviour , in which opinions or perspectives on policy-making , the solution of problems , and so on have no place . |
| 24 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , another solution is to excavate one large area without sections , but to build up a picture of the stratigraphy by recording the relationship of each layer to any adjoining layers . |
| 25 | Our cottage stood in a field at the opposite end of the village from the smallholding the Guérigny family used to work . |
| 26 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 27 | The backbone conformation of the junction C1pA2 in the first strand is thus the same as that of the corresponding junction in the second strand ( at the opposite end of the dodecamer ) . |
| 28 | At the opposite end of the Lake of Thun ( or Thunersee ) from Interlaken lies Thun . |
| 29 | At the opposite end of the scale from the fundamentalists , we have such interesting hypotheses as the one put forward recently drawing attention to the close positive correlation between the susceptibility of groups to extinction and the oxygen consumption level of their modem representatives . |
| 30 | At the opposite end of the size range is the electro-hydraulic stepping motor , which is used in situations requiring very high torque . |