Example sentences of "a [noun] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 2 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 3 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 4 | At a cottage at the top end of the village , permission is granted , on payment of a small charge , to enter the grounds of Ingleborough Hall . |
| 5 | It was in a field at the far end of the village where I live , just across from the playing field and cricket ground . |
| 6 | Our cottage stood in a field at the opposite end of the village from the smallholding the Guérigny family used to work . |
| 7 | This cam is in turn pinned to the upper arm of the bell crank C. The resulting rotation of the crank about its fixed pivot causes the horizontal portion to rise and fall , lifting link member D and with it the vertically constrained rod member E. The needle carried in a collet at the lower end is thus made to oscillate vertically . |
| 8 | So people of General P members of the General Purposes Committee , go down and have a look at the bridge , have a look at the southern end , where there is a a wooden plank , which actually prevents this sort of activity , on the southern end , but not on the northern end . |
| 9 | This kind of assessment may be difficult if you are looking for a photographer at the other end of the country . |
| 10 | Robyn took a seat at the opposite end of the table from Wilcox . |
| 11 | For a moment he thought he saw a figure at the far end , waiting , but that was from the nightmare , too , just a trick of the light and the fog . |
| 12 | The railway company 's coat of arms is on the western portal of local stone , while a plaque at the other end records the name of the engineer who built it , Josiah Jessop . |
| 13 | Cross , 19 , admitted it was a wrench to leave Plymouth for a club at the other end of the country . |
| 14 | You lose the parcel but it 's end up for example in the , they used a contractor at the other end because we lost the parcel but they 're not responsible for that . |
| 15 | I would propose that we explore with the Managing Director a possibility of a deal at the higher end of this range but this may mean some form of earnout . |
| 16 | Wheelbarrows of mud are carted from one site to help form a containing mound for a pond at the other end . |
| 17 | Mallender and Malcolm were easy meat for yorkers , and even Tufnell , who remained not-out , was knocked off his feet by a boot-crusher at the other end from Waqar . |
| 18 | It was a lady at the other end . |
| 19 | Not only had Yolland been deceived about the BCR 's intentions at Stretford Bridge ; he had also failed to realise that the need to reverse trains at Lydham Heath made tender first running on some part of the line inevitable , whether or not there was a turntable at the lower end of the railway . |
| 20 | Retreat for marchers fleeing them was blocked by a cordon at the other end of Duke Street , where police also charged the demonstrators . |
| 21 | Eventually we were all reunited on a spur at the lowest end of the plateau . |
| 22 | Just as we were engaged in these sotto voce instructions , Eliot himself was perceived to walk across a passage at the far end of the flat . |
| 23 | First , Nicholas had no hope of undertaking a campaign at the opposite end of the continent without the assistance of Austria and Prussia — but Austria and Prussia were reluctant to join him . |
| 24 | The one on the left was half open , revealing a narrow kitchen , little more than a passage with a sink and draining board under a window at the far end , a cooker , refrigerator , a small table and a wooden chair on one side and on the other a laminated work-surface with cupboards and drawers below and a run of shelves above . |
| 25 | It measured 4.9m by 4.3m ( 16 ft by 14 ft ) , and had full length storage at one end , and low level storage — for files , journals and papers — under a window at the other end . |
| 26 | This was said meaningfully ; there was a sigh at the other end of the line . |
| 27 | Best of all , a kingfisher , black against the red sun , alighted on a post at the far end . |
| 28 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 29 | Now , aspiring judges are called to a room at the western end of the Palace of Westminster overlooking the Thames , and , seated on chairs stamped with the gilt portcullis , interviewed about their suitability for the job . |
| 30 | Benjamin leaned against a wall watching a butcher at the far end of the yard hack a haunch of beef into huge , steaming slabs , the blood pouring like red streams over the rough-hewn carving block . |