Example sentences of "opposite end [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are also orphan countries there — poor places , backwaters , as it might seem , at opposite ends of the earth . |
| 2 | But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society . |
| 3 | These were the opposite ends of the British special-train scene of the 1980s , on either side of a conscious divide where the key words were price and profit . |
| 4 | The outcome turned on the block votes of union delegations at opposite ends of the conflict ; for and against establishing a separate body . |
| 5 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 6 | But here the similarities end and the new policies for local economic regeneration can be placed at opposite ends of the political spectrum . |
| 7 | In the past , according to Mackenzie , they used to sit at opposite ends of the site firing off hostile letters to each other . |
| 8 | To demonstrate the diverse nature of the subject , two articles are included here which represent opposite ends of the spectrum . |
| 9 | Two of the couples were obviously married , and in their early fifties , but sitting at opposite ends of the length of the table were a silver-haired woman still showing some of the beauty that had helped make her a famous actress in the forties ; and a broad-shouldered young man . |
| 10 | Run it into two uplifts at opposite ends of the tank , and pack it with filter floss and carbon . |
| 11 | Among the new faces at opposite ends of the 1992 race are two cushioned trainers , the 2030 MXU ( £49.99 ) and the 2080 MHG ( £79.99 ) . |
| 12 | From the moment you step inside , the surroundings are impressive , a heavy oak door leads into a beamed hall , with a slate floor and two staircases at opposite ends of the room . |
| 13 | Between these opposite ends of the continuum lie intermediary kinds of local state action which I have termed guided , autarchic and decentralized ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 14 | The name is so good that it is used twice at opposite ends of the Peak District , and both routes are major middle grade classics . |
| 15 | Most football grounds now divide their rival fans by placing them at opposite ends of the ground and by preventing access between the ends . |
| 16 | It can certainly provide help with specific difficulties such as sustaining different activities for groups that are at opposite ends of the ability range . |
| 17 | Here are two extreme examples at opposite ends of the range to let you assess how close your writing is to one or the other . |
| 18 | So it was that an otherwise desultory exchange , from opposite ends of the universe , was suddenly enlivened by the discovery of common ground when Grundy observed , ‘ You 're more drunk than I am . ’ |
| 19 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 20 | I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff . |
| 21 | Of course , they were at the opposite ends of the price range . |
| 22 | Two telephones permit students at opposite ends of the classroom to engage in conversation while the rest of the class listens . |
| 23 | ‘ As strikers , we were always at opposite ends of the field so I never really came into contact with Frank on the park , ’ recalls Pearson . |
| 24 | What 's interesting is that the contrast between the two cities is so great that they could equally well be at opposite ends of the planet . |
| 25 | Although modern dictionary meanings suggest that both these words are almost synonymous with ‘ gently ’ 'lightly , ‘ softly , even ‘ carefully ’ , to a French Baroque musician , while evocative of style , they were principally indications of tempo at opposite ends of the time scale : doucement for a slow tempo corresponding to gravement or lentement , and légèrement for a swift , nimble tempo , only one stage below that of vivement or vite . |
| 26 | Talks with Courtaulds Coatings in Australia raised difficulties which could not be resolved — customers ' demands at opposite ends of the earth were just too difficult . |
| 27 | A GROUP telephone network set up in North America is being widened to link sites at opposite ends of the earth . |
| 28 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |