Example sentences of "were [verb] towards [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duisberg and Frankfurt were visited towards the end of June and then , after 33 sorties , I was posted " tour expired " to Kinloss in the bonnie land of Moray to instruct at No 19 OTU . |
| 2 | Preparations were made towards the end of the year for the formation of a full-time Training Group to coordinate all aspects of training needs in BGS . |
| 3 | But two entirely new yards were opened towards the end of the decade , showing that BR envisages at least some need for shunting for the foreseeable future ! |
| 4 | The four information points , in libraries at Beccles , Haverhill , Woodbridge and Newmarket , were opened towards the end of last year , following the success of the Suffolk Connexions information point which opened in St Helen 's Street , Ipswich , in 1988 . |
| 5 | Arsenic compounds were introduced towards the end of the nineteenth century , but it was the introduction of arsphenamine , or salvarsan , in the early twentieth century that produced the first really viable alternative to mercury . |
| 6 | Since monthly courses were introduced towards the end of 1991 , accidents costing more than three days ' lost time have plummeted by 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Our third theme will be the way in which the questions these developments raised were illustrated towards the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the present century in the work of Albert Schweitzer ( 1875–1965 ) , Johannes Weiss ( 1863–1914 ) , William Wrede ( 1859–1906 ) , Martin Kähler ( 1835–1912 ) and Ernst Troeltsch ( 1865–1923 ) . |
| 8 | A number of matters which were implemented towards the end of 1991 and concluded at the beginning of 1992 were touched upon in last year 's report . |