Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annual railway construction more than trebled between the end of the 1880s and the boom years of the late 1890s . |
| 2 | The tactic worked for a while but it was madness to remain obstinately wedded to it while his son 's frustration increased and while men pressed for an end to political uncertainty in order to permit the launching of the crusade . |
| 3 | He also says that ‘ the decoding of sentence meaning should be treated as the end point of development ’ as though the universal superiority of the essayist technique had been firmly established . |
| 4 | Which point of speaker-change , among the many , could be treated as the end of one chunk of the conversation ? |
| 5 | The sign or the symbol , however , can be ignored and treated as an end in itself . |
| 6 | Intravenously administered vasoactive intestinal polypeptide instantly changed absorption to secretion and the effect stopped after the end of the infusion . |
| 7 | ‘ shall have effect as if it granted or provided for the grant of a tenancy for a term of 10 years , subject to a right exercisable either by the landlord or the tenant to determine the tenancy , if the war ends before the expiration of that term , by at least one month 's notice in writing given after the end of the war ; … |
| 8 | At 194p , down 7p yesterday , the shares stand at a discount of 37.5 per cent to the net asset value expected for the end of this year . |
| 9 | The fight will be rescheduled for the end of this year . |
| 10 | The fight will be rescheduled for the end of this year . |
| 11 | Further verbal pictures of Wordsworth at this period may be found in Thomas De Quincey 's Recollections ; but 1805 may be considered as the end of his youth . |
| 12 | In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War . |
| 13 | This advantage is considerable since the bitter fraction may then be chemically manipulated to produce bitter iso a acids from the a acids and so provide a PIKE product which may be added towards the end of the boil or even afterwards . |
| 14 | They include pumpkin , lentil , onion , parsnip , beetroot , pea , fennel and the redoubtable Buddhist Monk of mung beans with cashew nuts and coconut added towards the end ; ‘ a tropical soup , ’ says Rex . |
| 15 | The Manchester Citizens Corporation was alone in lobbying for such provision , but its capability in this area became increasingly constrained towards the end of the Programme period ( see below ) . |
| 16 | Bet he had to be substituted towards the end as he was so gutted . |
| 17 | Rocky was playing and by the sounds of the radio coverage he played well but was substituted towards the end with Strandli coming on to replace him . |
| 18 | The 174-seater restaurant , run by catering manager , re-opened towards the end of last year after being totally refurbished . |
| 19 | But when no announcements of conclusive victory emerged in the following few weeks , people began — as was reported towards the end of October — to express their impatience that the struggle for Stalingrad was taking too long and costing too many lives . |
| 20 | The Nonconformists also had reason to feel disappointed , since the relief granted was considerably less than the civil and religious liberty which they had enjoyed towards the end of James 's reign . |
| 21 | The committee 's full recommendations are expected towards the end of this year or early 1990 . |
| 22 | The start of 1993 in the UK and Europe had been slow , but improvement in some sectors was expected towards the end of the year and prospects in the US and Australia looked better , it added . |
| 23 | Sotheby 's was approached towards the end of 1988 , and , according to Llewellyn , ‘ We told the seller that we certainly would not be prepared to sell it for him unless it was clear that there were no existing legal claims to be made by any third parties against the picture . |
| 24 | This is usually an underestimate as the first logical overflow record is always the last from that track physically and tends to be located near the end of the overflow track . |
| 25 | This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) . |
| 26 | The first item stored becomes the head of the queue and new items are added onto the end , or tail of the queue . |
| 27 | The construction of such a list is very fast if built from an already alphabetically ordered list , because new items are simply added onto the end of the list . |
| 28 | Knill added that although the commercial and strategic logic for the Thorp project had collapsed with the end of the cold war , it might still be needed to help nations that could not cope with their own nuclear waste . |
| 29 | Unless you were of ‘ a nervous disposition ’ ( what a lovely genteel phrase that is ) you were unlikely to be distressed by these tales of goodies versus the bad monsters , especially as the goodies always won in the end . |
| 30 | Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and miraculously the whole things was over , instead of our having to face what would probably be a long naval and air war against Japan , which we should of course have won in the end — after unthinkable losses of men and equipment . |