Example sentences of "end [prep] [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this test a load is applied to the two ends of a long bar of uniform cross-section and either the displacement of the ends or that of two fiducial marks on the surface of the bar observed as a function of the applied load . |
| 2 | An epiphysis may be defined as ‘ a cartilaginous area present at each end of every long bone of the limbs , on the upper and lower faces of the vertebral bodies and in certain other locations where special processes are required for the attachment of muscles ’ ( Watson & Lowrey , 19512 ) . |
| 3 | They turned in through a pair of eagle-mounted gateposts , then at the end of a long driveway at last drew to a halt . |
| 4 | ‘ The hammer ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a long bit of wire , and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster and faster and then lets it go . |
| 5 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 6 | Right now it 's the end of a long day in London and the 48-year-old Young prowls the room with a stooped , rangy gait , the traces of a roguish grin on his well-worn face . |
| 7 | There are , of course , great temptations for an interviewer to classify respondents into categories where they are most needed rather than where they really belong , especially when the job is nearly complete and respondents from particular categories seem rare or , perhaps understandably , at the end of a long day in the rain and the cold . |
| 8 | We just sat ( there were two of us ) one on either side , outside her door at the end of a long corridor in The Inn On The Park hotel . |
| 9 | They 'll send for the least Trifle to the other end of a long Street to one of their own Crew , when the very next Neighbour , a Church-man , has it to sell " . |
| 10 | One can not be surprised when , quite apart from reservations in the social worker himself about handling sexual matters , the worker has a strong sense that , if he even tries , his particular behind may mark the end of a long chain of kicks ! |
| 11 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 12 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’ |
| 14 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 15 | The view that the major industrial nations are in a period of transition — at the end of a long period of industrialism and entering a new phase of post-industrialism — pre-dates the onset of deindustrialization and the debates around the issue . |
| 16 | By the 1690s , at the end of a long period of exceptionally rapid growth , London was by far the largest urban settlement in Europe , and poised to assume its later role as a metropolis . |
| 17 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 18 | What the outside world sees as a minister promoting a particular project is probably the end of a long process in which different groups of civil servants within the department have argued about the case for that venture as opposed to other ventures . |
| 19 | Bonanza Boy finished a remote eighth in the race and is 10lb worse off with Little Polveir but it is unwise to judge him on that performance which came at the end of a long season after some punishing contests . |
| 20 | For James Tranter 28 , a wealthy interior designed and 27-year-old Kevin Swan , a successful , equally wealthy jazz musician , it 's the end of a long orgy of theft throughout London 's top stores , including Jaeger , Austin Reed and Blazer |
| 21 | Should we dump everything down onto a long-term storage medium and select at the end of a longer period of time with the benefit of historical hindsight , say after 25 years ? |
| 22 | Born in the coastal province of Fujian in 1904 , Chen began serving Mao in Yenan , the remote village in northwest China where the Red Army took refuge and regained its strength at the end of the Long March in 1937 . |
| 23 | Of course the other major factor that had an impact on policy and practice in the later 1970s was resource constraints — the end of the long expansion of local authority staffing and budgets since 1948 , and of the rapid growth of the early 1970s . |
| 24 | Power seemed to be moving towards Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who was arguing that his country needed to mend bridges with the rest of the world in order to rebuild Iran , following the end of the long war with Iraq . |
| 25 | Daniel paced up and down the polished floor from one end of the long room to the other ; his sentences bore the rehearsed solemnity of a stage drama . |
| 26 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 27 | It marked the end of the long process of transformations — starting with the seething leaves of the plant , then the reeking green stage of the first steepings , and the sulphurous yellow stage of the liquor before it was exposed to the air , then binding with the air , it gradually turned to blue . |
| 28 | I will say that because as , we have n't heard the end by a long way for , of this one . |