Example sentences of "end [prep] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | One can not be surprised when , quite apart from reservations in the social worker himself about handling sexual matters , the worker has a strong sense that , if he even tries , his particular behind may mark the end of a long chain of kicks ! |
| 8 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 9 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’ |
| 11 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 12 | The view that the major industrial nations are in a period of transition — at the end of a long period of industrialism and entering a new phase of post-industrialism — pre-dates the onset of deindustrialization and the debates around the issue . |
| 13 | By the 1690s , at the end of a long period of exceptionally rapid growth , London was by far the largest urban settlement in Europe , and poised to assume its later role as a metropolis . |
| 14 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 15 | For James Tranter 28 , a wealthy interior designed and 27-year-old Kevin Swan , a successful , equally wealthy jazz musician , it 's the end of a long orgy of theft throughout London 's top stores , including Jaeger , Austin Reed and Blazer |
| 16 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 17 | If a parallel is taken with the treatment of another infection , say , lobar pneumonia , at the end of a ten-day course of penicillin treatment , there will be no sign of the responsible bacteria and , if the antibiotics are stopped , the bacteria will not return and reinfect the lung . |
| 18 | A communique issued by NATO Defence Ministers at the end of a biannual meeting of the 14-country Defence Planning Committee ( DPC ) in Brussels , Belgium , on Nov. 28-29 , 1989 , expressed NATO 's determination " not to make any unilateral reductions ( in conventional force levels ) that could risk undermining the prospect of reaching a CFE accord " . |
| 19 | Having been on the receiving end of a whole host of visits over the past couple of years , we decided it was our turn to get out and about and took advantage of a kind offer by local brewers , of Abingdon , for a guided tour of the brewery . |
| 20 | It was the end of a particular kind of NME and the start of a new one . |
| 21 | Michael and Anne Heseltine were at either end of a large table of their constituents ; attending to the annual ritual whereby the faithful are rewarded for a year spent addressing envelopes and running bazaars . |
| 22 | This is a typical feature of methylation-free islands , which are present at the 5' end of a large number of genes ( 7,8 ) . |
| 23 | From Sligachan , only the northern end of a compact mass of peaks and pinnacles , linked by a high ridge of naked rock , can be seen , but by a circuitous byroad , the main climbing centre of Glen Brittle may be reached . |
| 24 | Britta approached , bearing the link : a silver lance on the end of a thick bundle of cables . |
| 25 | A LOCAL historian has called plans to change the name of an ancient public footpath at the end of a leafy lane of substantial and secluded homes in Haslemere as ‘ nothing short of environmental and archaeological vandalism ’ . |
| 26 | The caravan , one of dozens on a huge site less than two miles from Jean 's own home , was the end of a two-week trail of cruel discoveries that began the day she buried 60-year-old husband , Brian , in May last year . |
| 27 | At the end of a short service of prayer , she wanted to know why half a lady should want to materialise in her kitchen . |
| 28 | The other end of the wire is passed through a hole in the brass plate and soldered into the end of a short piece of brass rod . |
| 29 | And so what tends to happen is that at the end of a groined bit of beach the area immediately down-drift , that is to the east on the Sussex coast , starts to suffer from very serious erosion . |
| 30 | At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved . |