Example sentences of "[conj] end with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Call him , and you get an answerphone message that ends with a cheery ‘ Have a nice day for white America ’ . |
| 2 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 3 | The one-eyed porter whom I have known from childhood ; the station-master who ranges us all in ranks , beginning with the Duke and ending with a sad , frayed and literary man ; the little chaise in which the two old ladies from Barlton drive up to get their paper of an evening , the servant from the inn , the newsboy whose mother keeps a sweetshop — they are all my friends . |
| 4 | Finally , there 's ‘ Blues for Ceaucescu ’ , prefaced by an explanation of the song 's continued relevance thanks to events in the Gulf and ending with a massed f— off of a farewell . |
| 5 | They ended with a 5–3 losing record , going down to New Zealand in the two tests ( finishing with a 59–6 humiliation in the second ) and ending with a lop-sided scoring record of 287 points ( 50 tries ) against and only 153 ( 21 tries ) for . |
| 6 | In this book , I have preferred to start my itinerary in the north and travel southwards , the better to link the highlights of the journey in a continuous route , introducing the Highlands more gradually and ending with a glorious climax . |
| 7 | Remarkable song at communal display ground , starting with a resonant rattle and ending with a sound like drawing a cork and pouring liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle , followed by a crashing sound made by scraping wing quills on the ground . |
| 8 | The Mozart shown beneath the Chopin has the same form , using repetition and ending with a recall of the first section . |
| 9 | Rupert went over in his mind the unattached women he knew , beginning with Esther Clovis , the formidable secretary of the Foresight Research Centre , and ending with a pretty young typist who worked in the department of the University where he lectured . |
| 10 | In a rare note of optimism Pétain issued an Order of the Day , beginning , ‘ The 9th of April was a glorious day for our forces , ’ and ending with a famous paraphrase of Joan of Arc : ‘ Courage , on les aura ! ’ |
| 11 | At this point a new term will be introduced : we need a name for a continuous piece of speech beginning and ending with a clear pause , and we will call this an utterance . |
| 12 | The English Schools Trophy is effectively the schoolboy F A Cup , played for by about two hundred district teams throughout the country , and ending with a two legged final , at which Oxford have appeared on four different occasions ; the earliest back in nineteen O eight , and the most recent in nineteen seventy four , when unfortunately , as with all the previous three , we were defeated , on that occasion by Manchester boys , yet er the home leg was played in front of a crowd of twelve thousand people , which was the highest recorded crowd at the Manor that season . |
| 13 | The ORF , starting at nucleotide 289 and ending with an UAG stop codon at position 2119 , contains the POU domain . |
| 14 | The Organization of Petrolem Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) held its six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 , electing Jibril Aminu of Nigeria as OPEC President , and ending with an agreement to allow member countries to continue to produce near to capacity in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 15 | A variation on Mamet 's last directional effort , Things Change , it creates a predictable but effective comedy from the convicts ' progress to ‘ salvation ’ , as real priests and ordinary folk take Penn 's stumbling idiocies and de Niro 's low-rent growls for down-to-earth spiritual lessons , and gives Jordan the space to pump up the religious allegory the film opens in prison Hell and ends with a life saving plunge into regenerative waters . |
| 16 | The life cycle of the broad and bulky elephant both begins and ends with a narrow bottleneck . |
| 17 | Indeed I suspect that the essential , defining feature of an individual organism is that it is a unit that begins and ends with a single-celled bottleneck . |
| 18 | Each chapter begins with a brief introduction , and ends with a comprehensive list of references — typically in the hundreds . |
| 19 | Shoemaking begins and ends with a last , the three dimensional pattern of the inside shape of a shoe . |
| 20 | Each day begins and ends with a prayer , |
| 21 | She wants women to pay more attention to their achievement needs , and ends with a celebration of throwing off feminine values , and taking on some masculine ones : giving up ‘ guilt and shame and the tireless self-discipline of women ’ for ‘ magnanimity and generosity and courage ’ ( 1971 : 330 ) . |
| 22 | The Blessing of the Nets Festival begins Sunday 3 May at 11.30am outside the Admiral Codrington Bar on the Beach Deck and ends with a grand finale on Sunday 17 May in The Lanes . |
| 23 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 24 | Very broadly , the chapter begins from recent preoccupations about decline in British manufacturing , encapsulated in the term deindustrialization , and ends with a major historical turning-point , for manufacturing and for the economy more widely . |
| 25 | One way of putting this difference between the bounded nature of research and the comparatively unbounded nature of higher education is to say that , in research , the researcher starts off with a fairly hazy idea of what might emerge and ends with a precise formulation or conclusion , whereas in higher education , this is reversed . |
| 26 | This control begins with inspection of the raw materials and other items purchased from suppliers , continues with inspection during production , and ends with a final inspection before delivery to the customer . |
| 27 | Each chapter begins with a summary of its contents and ends with a review of what the reader should have learned from it . |
| 28 | In six chapters and 191 pages ( including useful notes and bibliography ) , Cable outlines a new theory of Old English ( OE ) alliterative verse ; explores the revival of alliterative writing in Middle English ( ME ) ; empirically demonstrates the distribution of final -e and its consequences for metricality in ME texts both alliterative and rhymed ; explores the superficially similar decasyllabic metres of Chaucer and Shakespeare , concluding that they are respectively different underlying metres ; and ends with a chapter on " theoretical implications " which links prosodic theory with critical theory . |
| 29 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 30 | Rugby League Regal Trophy , second round : Leeds 27 , Bradford Northern 8 Leeds start and end with a flourish . |