Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards also had the benefit of solid support at the other end as Haynes steadily made his way to 184 , the highest West Indian innings at Lord 's , and with Lloyd chipping in a fifty the total reached 518 . |
| 2 | On the left a door with a frosted glass panel in it led into Tom Watt 's office , a long narrow north-facing room with a tall sash-window at the far end . |
| 3 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 4 | It was difficult for Charity to make sense of the emotional jumble at the other end . |
| 5 | A Swiss came to end his days here many years ago now — in an isolated ruined cottage at the far end of the island . |
| 6 | He had emerged into another pool of dim light at the far end of the corridor . |
| 7 | The intersegmental membrane does not permit diffusion , so that a high concentration at the front end of one segment is maintained close to a low concentration at the back of the segment in front . |
| 8 | The growth of EP has had a marked influence at the low end of the publishing business . |
| 9 | A British filly at the other end of her career earlier captured another prize for the visitors . |
| 10 | Thrush Green stood on high ground at the northerly end of Lulling , a small sleepy prosperous town , which had been famous in the days of the wool trade . |
| 11 | Red plush curtains swung to the floor from a large , boxlike construction at the far end of the room . |
| 12 | An interesting feature at the very end of the carboxy terminus is the pair of predicted coiled-coil regions which are virtually identical in all four published sequences . |
| 13 | Incorrect addressing , postal errors , wrong handling at the receiving end can all subvert your efforts , particularly where timing is critical . |
| 14 | Where once it was sufficient of an adventure for a lone girl to enter the deserted mansion at the far end of the village , today the element of adventure , of venturing , can be plausibly obtained at the end of a plane flight . |
| 15 | Abbotsbury itself is a wonderfully tranquil village at the western end of the famous Chesil Bank . |
| 16 | Eva sat down on the edge of the bed and read me The Selfish Giant , dramatizing all the characters and imitating a smug vicar at the sentimental end of the story . |
| 17 | A wheezing cough at the other end of the line told Kelly that it was Bob Morrow . |
| 18 | An additional irony at the very end of this fabliau resides in the claim that Boivin himself " made " this fabliau , and was paid ten sous by the provost for it . |
| 19 | If by any chance , you have still not encountered the fax machine , then its basic function is easily described : the fax transceiver plugs into a standard telephone socket , scans the document fed into it and then transmits the result electronically to a similar machine at the other end of the line where a facsimile document is printed out . |
| 20 | There must be a similar machine at the receiving end . |
| 21 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 22 | ‘ Shall we adjourn to your office ? ’ he suggested , meaning a poky room at the far end of the mill . |
| 23 | ‘ Police , miss , ’ said a businesslike male voice at the other end . |
| 24 | With its steep , rocky buttresses set above a fern-covered hillside near Upper Hulme , this craggy bastion , the last real peak at the southern end of the Pennines , has a real mountain profile . |
| 25 | She saw Harry stretch out on a lounger in the fragrant shade at the far end of the terrace and toss the last four inches of his Romeo y Julieta into the hedge . |
| 26 | The setting of macro is usually done via the zoom lever which has a short amount of extra travel at the wide-angle end . |
| 27 | Some will still recall the warm fire at the far end of what became known as the Primary Room and the tiny wooden chairs which allowed small feet almost to reach the ground . |
| 28 | An agitated businessman at the other end of the line complained that a water pipe was leaking in his hotel room . |
| 29 | Someone laid a spear or a piece of wood at the top of the steps whilst the hospitaller was at his usual place at the far end of the parapet walk , near Salt Tower . ’ |
| 30 | The twin solutions to equation ( 9.15 ) of equal positive and negative phase shifts correspond to the possibility of feeding a signal in at either end of the symmetric section and loading it with its characteristic impedance at the other end . |