Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because you lost so much body water in the heat , small boys brought tumblers of iced water at the end of every set . |
| 2 | The stripper gyrated slowly upon the tiny square of painted hardboard at the end of the bar . |
| 3 | We borrowed these words to summarise the position of women in positions of public power at the end of the 1970s ( Stacey and Price , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Slavomir Stracar , Czechoslovakia 's Federal Minister of Foreign Trade since the end of June 1990 [ see p. 37543 ] , died of a heart attack on Aug. 21 in Brasilia ( Brazil ) during an official visit . |
| 5 | The defeat of British Jacobinism at the end of the 1790s was the starting point of an effervescence of fringe religious movements . |
| 6 | Maybe I would explore the possibility of early retirement in the end . |
| 7 | Bardot appeared three-quarters view , in a pink gingham décolletage , frilled with broderie anglaise , and spike heels of white kid on the end of her round legs . |
| 8 | Conchis led me a little way to a deep fissure between two boulders , and there suspended a piece of white cloth on the end of a line . |
| 9 | * The Department of the Environment has confirmed that it has no immediate intention of raising its target of recycling 25 per cent of domestic waste by the end of the century . |
| 10 | There is a summary of key vocabulary at the end of each unit for easy reference , and a special feature of the course is the multilingual word-list in French , Spanish , Italian , German , Turkish , and Japanese . |
| 11 | Anachem made a £2.2m pre-tax profit on turnover of £11.8m in the year to end-September , and had £2.5m of net cash at the end of March . |
| 12 | thank you and it said there in apportionment , page one , five , three again , calculated from the date of legal completion to the end of the then current half year , will be collected on completion , please note that these are estimated only and will be retrospectively adjusted when audited accounts are available now we 've seen the reflection of that in practice this morning have n't we ? |
| 13 | But government spokesmen said that they wanted to see it eventually set so as to maintain the level of existing capacity at the end of the century . |
| 14 | There is an anonymous criticism of great force at the end . ’ |
| 15 | Five new proposals were tabled on Dec. 14-15 : by the USA , by the four Nordic countries ( Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden-but excluding Denmark as a member of the EC ) , by members of the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau , by the five contracting parties of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN-Indonesia , Malaysia , Philippines , Singapore and Thailand , but not Brunei which was not a contracting party although it maintained a de facto application of GATT following its achievement of full independence at the end of 1983 ) , and by Bangladesh on behalf of the LDCs . |
| 16 | Erm and this whole area is , is , is , was built on that kind of industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The PGA therefore allows them a sort of cooling-off period at the end of a round to check each other 's scores thoroughly . |
| 18 | The government came under growing pressure to negotiate a peace settlement after the Soviet decision to stop supplies of military aid at the end of 1990 . |
| 19 | Regular collections of mail for posting should be made throughout the day ; this will ease the pressure and build-up of outgoing mail at the end of the day . |
| 20 | Jean Michel Basquiat , the former graffiti artist whose short and turbulent career ended with his death by a drug overdose in 1988 , is the subject of a retrospective which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art towards the end of this month ( 23 October-14 February 1993 ) . |
| 21 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 22 | The war fever of summer 1940 was a passing phase , which by the end of that year had again been replaced by the dominant tone of impatient longing for the end of the war . |
| 23 | It has recently been suggested that the scale and many-sidedness of working-class militancy at the end of the Great War reflects a partial shift away from the profoundly defensive characteristics of working-class culture . |
| 24 | This type of situation is likely to occur in occupations involving Apprenticeships or Student Nurses , for example , where there is no guarantee of permanent employment at the end of the fixed term training period . |
| 25 | The official imposition of Christian orthodoxy at the end of the century reinforced the tendency to merge church and empire ; the Christian emperors became God 's agents in bringing their subjects under the yoke of Christ . |
| 26 | The worst incidents of fighting were reported from the provinces of Siirt and Hakkari , where at least 30 Kurdish guerrillas and nine soldiers , including a garrison commander , were killed in a week of intense fighting at the end of July . |
| 27 | The countries with the highest incidence of reported AIDS at the end of 1989 were the United States ( 113,211 victims ) , Brazil ( 8,064 ) , France ( 8,025 ) and Uganda ( 7,375 ) . |