Example sentences of "at the end [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 2 | The widespread regression at the end of Cretaceous times may be related to three major plate phenomena : the Laramide orogeny along the western edge of the American plate , the opening of the northern part of the North Atlantic and the further grinding together of the African and Eurasian plates to produce the early Tertiary Pyrenean folding of Cantabria , the Pyrenees and Provence in south-west Europe . |
| 3 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 4 | At the end of long conversations , it is unsurprising that the regulator can feel quite sympathetic to the problems as perceived by the regulated . |
| 5 | The proposed government centre ( not yet a palace ) was not situated at the end of converging boulevards , but occupied an already partially derelict and vacant site . |
| 6 | No doubt , they — particularly the Gulf states — will be kept in power by Western arms , if popular unrest should threaten their survival , whatever Western hopes for immediate military withdrawal at the end of current hostilities might have been . |
| 7 | The introductory document on national curriculum English hints at formal examinations at the end of key stages and this saddens her . |
| 8 | Similarly , we assume that workers who set their wages at the end of odd periods believed , in the odd period t - 2 , that the price level would be the same in periods t - 1 and t . |
| 9 | At the end of straight lengths , there will either be a stop end , an elbow ( to take the gutter around a corner ) or a stop end outlet to connect to the downpipe . |
| 10 | Notice that workers who set their wages at the end of even periods believed , in the even period t - 1 , that the price level in odd period t would remain unchanged in period t + 1 . |
| 11 | At the end of Shakespearean Negotiations in concluding a discussion of The Tempest , Greenblatt tells a story to exemplify ‘ the continued doubleness of Shakespeare in our culture : at once the embodiment of civilised recreation … and the instrument of empire ’ . |
| 12 | The villages are buried in the valleys , at the end of blind funnels . |
| 13 | It is a tall plant — up to five feet high — with purple stems and pink or white flowers at the end of thin stalks . |
| 14 | We know , however , that preliminary rumbles of the Hercynian orogeny were already beginning to be heard at the end of Dinantian times . |
| 15 | My feet just about worked , like heavy blobs at the end of bendy pipe-cleaners , I sat through assembly with all the voices and music floating over me , and every time I closed my eyes I saw Julie lying in the road . |
| 16 | The Caledonian orogeny in reaching its climax at the end of Silurian times , expressed itself along the same Taconian lines and along the lines that were , much later , to be the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 17 | I do n't mean players at the end of distinguished careers who go onto the Vancouver Whitecaps so do n't give me Peter Lorimer etc . |