Example sentences of "[was/were] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the same , I have no wish to be seen like this , ’ Edward said as if that were the end of the matter — but Richard heard the catch in his voice . |
| 2 | Close and balance the TAB as if it were the end of the day 's business , adding and reconciling all totals : |
| 3 | She will frequently tell us that the fathers of the church , or the bible , state such things to be the case , as though that were the end of the matter . |
| 4 | Joynson-Hicks announced this to the Cabinet as though it were the end of constitutional government . |
| 5 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 6 | If that were the end of the matter , as I.B.C. submits it is , the solution to the problem would be simple . |
| 7 | If this were the end of the story then there would be large equator to pole temperature differences in the observed troposphere . |
| 8 | And that was the end of Dragonfly Moonchild . |
| 9 | The net effect was the end of the Class 25 and 27 , and a remarkable stack of over thirty asbestos-contaminated loco bodies piled high in Vic Berry 's Leicester scrapyard as he struggled to cope with the influx . |
| 10 | This was the end this time . |
| 11 | This was the end of the interview . |
| 12 | And that was the end of that band . |
| 13 | That was the end of the ACAS story because Grunwick flatly and legally refused to accept its recommendations . |
| 14 | It was the end of the flat-12 Ferrari engine and the end of Scheckter 's driving career . |
| 15 | The pop explosion that eclipsed Sammy Going South at the box office was the end of the road for Bryanston , and Balcon 's career in commercial filmmaking . |
| 16 | It was the end of his second , probably last , official visit . |
| 17 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 18 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 19 | The quarrel was the end of his friendship with Eleanor . |
| 20 | And that was the end of my companionship . ’ |
| 21 | That was the end of the cinematic euphemisms for making love the misty dissolve , the rocketing fireworks or rearing waves which had been the director 's equivalent of the novelist 's three dots … |
| 22 | It was the end of the month . |
| 23 | TOMORROW is the end of the financial year , yesterday was the end of the account and , as has become a recent norm , those blue chip stocks going ex-dividend on Monday were in heavy demand . |
| 24 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 25 | One of his most striking novels was The End of Eternity ( 1955 ) , about how time travel could threaten freedom . |
| 26 | The Telegraph said : ‘ After England 's first defeat since the World Cup we should conclude that this was the end of a team , not of an era . |
| 27 | Eccles told the WEA that he was opposed to the establishment of an advisory committee , preferring to leave discrimination between courses to the Responsible Bodies themselves : that was the end of Recommendation 18 . |
| 28 | And in those days if you were old and if you were poor , … that was the end of the road . |
| 29 | Apart from her visits to Marion and Hector and the babies , she was busy at the hives , for it was the end of the season , and they had all the honey to draw and store . |
| 30 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |