Example sentences of "in the end " in BNC.

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1 Victor Burgin explained , for example , in The End of Art Theory that he was unwilling to be limited to an aesthetic response to ‘ the art object , which in turn is representative of the sensibility of the artist ’ .
2 Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ .
3 If our admiration be true , genuine , and progressive we will in the end come to admire the good and cease to admire the bad .
4 The connoisseurship demonstrated in these two examples is built up from an accumulation of work by many scholars , but in the end , the cataloguer has to make a judgement , which for number 291 is in favour of Cranach 's authorship .
5 Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted .
6 It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart .
7 In Moments of Reprieve he remarks : ‘ What the ‘ true ’ image of each of us may be in the end is a meaningless question . ’
8 A R. So getting a good part in the end of term productions was much more competitive for you , Dulcie ?
9 None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver .
10 But in the end very disappointing .
11 What people objected to in the end was not God , as I 'd thought , but the suburban house in the background and the garden out of House and Garden .
12 In the end a false and depressing view of what man is and can be .
13 In the end , we do n't invent anything .
14 And so , in the end it was time for sherry at the Manor House .
15 She was after everything in trousers , young or old , she 'd have had Mr Pepper in the end , you mark my words , and then what 'd happen to the Company ?
16 I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best .
17 In the end , I trudged down to Victoria railway station and sheltered there .
18 ‘ Yes , in the end . ’
19 In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ .
20 There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end .
21 In the end she found a couple of blankets and the alarm clock and curled up regardless .
22 In the end , to put them off , I told them I was quite clear about the type who attracted me and that there was no point in introducing me to anyone who did n't match up .
23 However indirectly related to sensory experience a laboratory quantification of a particular form of energy may be , in the end the rate of exchange between one form of energy and another — the way in which we compare the quantity of one with the quantity of another - reposes upon the gold standard of subjectivity .
24 I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque .
25 Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money !
26 At 20 years old he is a Grand Slam winner and he achieved it against Agassi in a slugging final that in the end had the 17.000 crowd at Roland Garros on their feet .
27 That win made Agassi 's pulse race , but in the end Courier was his master .
28 Hereford cider producers Bulmers had been rumoured to be considering a bid but in the end have apparently not tendered an offer , fearing a referral by the Office of Fair Trading to the Monopolies Commission .
29 In the end I suppose you 'll get everything , which is what you wanted all along really but have n't dared to say it .
30 In the end Mrs Stavrogin and her expectant mothers lose out — if indeed there was ever any winning — while Mrs von Lemke 's needy governesses bring that determined woman victory , but then defeat .
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