Example sentences of "end of [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The relation between teachers and their pupils will change , and there are many who will regret the end of a kind of understanding and friendliness that can make teaching itself both easier and more rewarding .
2 It contains all the familiar Berliozian qualities save the macabre and the colossal , and reveals not only the greatness of his imagination in old age , but the beauty and purity of a spirit that , at the end of a life of frustration at being misjudged , could invent music of such supreme innocence and tenderness . ’
3 The general assessment at the end of a course of instruction ; the evaluation is usually made for grading purposes .
4 The almost unanimous passage of the decree , by 364 votes to 6 , came at the end of a day of turmoil at the Supreme Soviet sitting in the Kremlin .
5 She sounded empty , drained by her anger at the end of a day of travelling and love-making .
6 It seems likely that dementia is the extreme end of a continuum of behaviour ; the point prevalence is to some degree determined by where the case definition line is drawn .
7 Theories cast in terms of external structures and systematic forces are at the ‘ holist ’ end of a range of causal theories , just as theories which take actors as the final authority are at the ‘ individualist ’ end of a range of theories in search of understanding .
8 They had had two large whiskies in the bar downstairs , and they were now near the end of a bottle of Château Margaux .
9 Former US President Jimmy Carter visited Addis Ababa on Nov. 3 at the end of a tour of Africa .
10 Modularization is not easy to define , but can be seen as one end of a spectrum of course structures which ranges from the linear to the modular , as follows :
11 Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned .
12 The box stands at one end of a parcel of land upon which there is a complete turnout and associated signals .
13 For the police it was the end of a brotherhood of evil .
14 Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways .
15 Touch and go until the very last minute when Andy Arnott got a third for Gillingham , the end for Hereford ; the end of a night of football fireworks .
16 The family was still of some standing but the merchant firm of Höchstetter had become bankrupt in 1530 with the failure of a heavily financed speculation in mercury and the end of a dream of world monopoly in that substance .
17 Whatever happens it 's time to raise one last glass to Cheers and the end of a decade of vintage comedy .
18 Whatever happens it 's time to raise one last glass to Cheers and the end of a decade of vintage comedy .
19 Sticky end : stick a button on the end of a roll of Sellotape so you can find where to peel it back easily .
20 To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear !
21 Sheets were attached to each end of a beam of wood and then secured to the highest rafter in the roof , which at this stage was still open to the elements .
22 At the end of a shaft of light streaming down an alley which led to the river , a scorpion dozed on a broken brick , though at Huy 's approach the little brown statue bristled , pincers and sting instantly alert .
23 FOR the first half of the year you should have plenty of attack , although you may be on the receiving end of a show of force .
24 Having been at the end of a queue of Germans and Austrians all champing at the bit to go heliskiing , it was our turn .
25 The failure of the Guadalajara offensive marked the end of a period of change discernible in Franco 's military tactics .
26 At the end of a period of unemployment , however , the unemployment benefit office notifies the claimant of the amount of taxable benefit that has been paid to them .
27 If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year .
28 Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other .
29 The sign ( - ) used to join two words together , to join separated syllables of words broken at the end of a line of writing and to divide a word into parts or to represent hesitant speech , eg b-b-but .
30 At the end of a House of Commons debate on Oct. 21 six backbench Conservatives joined all the opposition parties ( except the Ulster Unionists ) in voting for a critical motion , on which the government 's majority was reduced from 21 to 13 .
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