Example sentences of "end [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish women 's team led from the opening end for a comfortable victory over the defending champions . |
| 2 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 3 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 4 | I ca n't recall , before , having had to peep through my fingers at Coronation Street as I did on Wednesday when Carmel , at the end of a riveting confrontation with Gail , plummeted down the stairs . |
| 5 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 6 | But the other British hope , Port Talbot 's John Price , was on the receiving end of a similar scoreline from Brisbane 's Rob Parrella . |
| 7 | Eventually , in January 1981 , the remaining 52 hostages were freed when $7.9 billion worth of frozen Iranian assets were returned marking the end of a humiliating experience for the world 's wealthiest and apparently most powerful nation . |
| 8 | Boss Colin Murphy , who took over from David Webb at the end of a turbulent season for the club , is grimly realistic of his side 's chances tonight . |
| 9 | Boss Colin Murphy , who took over from David Webb at the end of a turbulent season for the club , has been forced to sell Dean Austin to Spurs for £500,000 and Peter Butler to West Ham for £275,000 . |
| 10 | The fly-by-night theologies of the ‘ death of God ’ and ‘ magic mushrooms ’ were only the anarchic end of a serious attack by modern scholarship upon the presuppositions of biblical faith and credal affirmation ( see chapter eight ) . |
| 11 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 12 | There was a photo of a man dangling on the end of a hundred metres of rope , demonstrating SRT — single rope technique . |
| 13 | With respect to the coming to an end of a temporary job as a source of flows into unemployment , available evidence provided a rather unclear picture . |
| 14 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 15 | There was also the famous time when Sir Ralph had kissed Mark Fisher , Labour 's front bench spokesman for the Arts , on his bald pate at the end of a drunken speech in the House . |
| 16 | Hull 's most important Humberside derby for years comes at the end of a sad week for the club which saw defeat by Widnes on Sunday , and the sacking of Noel Cleal as coach on Monday . |
| 17 | THE Cammell Laird shipyard is to close next July marking the end of a proud chapter in British history . |
| 18 | As my grandad used to say at the end of a grand day like that , " That 's another one they ca n't take away from you . " |
| 19 | On March 15 at the end of a five-day visit to China , Soviet Deputy Premier Yury Maslyukov signed a commodity loan agreement with his counterpart Tian Jiyun . |
| 20 | A communiqué issued on July 4 at the end of a five-day meeting of the central committee of the ruling Parti congolais du travail ( PCT ) announced agreement on wide-ranging political reforms , specifically ( i ) broadening membership of the party ; ( ii ) abandoning Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state ; ( iii ) separating the functions of party and state ; ( iv ) ending the one-party system ; and ( v ) strengthening existing mechanisms allowing for freedom of expression , of the press , and of association . |
| 21 | The stop codon of this ORF is included in a set of tandem repeats which also encompasses the 3' end of a preceding ORF with the opposite transcriptional orientation ( not shown ) . |
| 22 | The trouble came at the end of a six-hour hearing at the Liverpool Magistrates ' Court yesterday which followed arrests in the Kirkdake area on Wednesday . |
| 23 | The flat is rudely a furnished bedroom at the end of a dark hallway on the twenty-second floor of a downtown highrise . |
| 24 | There he was , at the end of a solid day of meetings with French officials , looking exactly the way he had when they set out . |
| 25 | As contemporary writing testifies , it was the sad end of a glorious period in English history . |
| 26 | A visit to India by the Nepalese Prime Minister , Krishna Prasad Bhattarai , in June 1990 had marked the end of a 15-month period of soured Indo-Nepalese relations [ see p. 37531 ] . |
| 27 | They turned in through a pair of eagle-mounted gateposts , then at the end of a long driveway at last drew to a halt . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 30 | 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 . |