Example sentences of "at the end of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It claims that ITV 's audiences fall by an average of 18 per cent at the end of shows .
2 It claims ITV 's audiences fall by an average of 18 per cent at the end of shows .
3 The second argument is that the governments of the EC have committed themselves to the goal of Monetary Union in communiqués at the end of summits in the past .
4 To help the reader test his or her understanding there should be several problems at the end of chapters , and worked examples in the text where a general law or difficult point is discussed .
5 This is easy and enjoyable reading and there are extensive bibliographies at the end of chapters .
6 But , put in a few pages at the end of chapters , they are rather an ‘ add-on ’ .
7 General works on this subject are listed at the end of Chapter 12 , whilst more specific readings can be found at the end of Chapters 16 , 17 and 18 .
8 From Bethlehem at the beginning of his Gospel to Rome at the end of Acts it is the one Spirit active throughout : first showing us the nature of that messianic salvation brought by Jesus , and then showing us how it was spread .
9 Perhaps the reason why so many people say it or use the other favourite , ‘ yoU know ’ , at the end of sentences is that they are uncertain whether other people understand them .
10 He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order .
11 At the end of hostilities all cars of this class were in need of a major overhaul .
12 Salisbury 's reaction at the end of hostilities was to seek security wherever it could be found .
13 And we do n't become lost at the end of lives , we do n't become lost at some date in history , we are lost now if he has n't found us .
14 After this he began mentioning penicillin at the end of lectures on sulphonamides .
15 ‘ That 's the sort of thing one says at the end of lectures — especially now we have all those bed-sitter Marxists as students .
16 Reportedly this had been promised on Jan. 29 by the new Soviet Foreign Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh [ for whose appointment see p. 37970 ] at the end of talks in Washington with the US Secretary of State James Baker .
17 The government agreed , at the end of talks with Prince Sadruddin , to extend by six months a " memorandum of understanding " , due to expire in December , permitting UN relief agencies to continue operations in the north and south of the country .
18 The order , issued at the end of talks between IAEA and Iraqi officials in Vienna on March 20-25 , was described as " unfair " by the chief Iraqi negotiator , Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id , who had reportedly argued against Al-Atheer 's destruction , saying that it had originally been conceived as a civilian facility and should be allowed to continue operating as such .
19 That 's a reason , incidentally , for caution on stories of photographs glimpsed at the end of dinners for OSS veterans — the pictures of Edgar on his knees , making love to Clyde .
20 Sounds — This section focuses on individual sounds or groups of sounds and practises them as they arise in common contexts ( e.g. the sounds / s / , / z / , and iz at the end of words ) .
21 Children need to learn that y is a substitute letter for i at the end of words , and that it likes to change back to i when it can , that is , when there is something after it .
22 the knowledge that y at the end of words changes to i when es is added ( see page 41 ) .
23 If we do not want to reset entire articles ( impossible in the rush of printing schedules ) , the only place we can make cuts or additions is at the end of paragraphs .
24 Finally , the additional time taken to read words occurring at the end of clauses and sentences might reflect the time taken to carry out syntactic processing of that particular clause or sentence .
25 For the moment , however , we want to consider what might be involved in the processing of an individual clause , and we will suggest that the additional processing load at the end of clauses arises because of several different processes , some concerned with understanding the syntax and semantics of the clause which has just been read , and others with the relating of information in this clause to earlier information in the passage .
26 Flores d'Arcais and Schreuder ( 1983 ) propose that the kind of processing carried out at the end of clauses depends on their degree of ‘ completeness ’ .
27 If this were not so , contextual facilitation of auditory word recognition would occur only for words at the end of clauses .
28 I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work .
29 I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally .
30 His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week .
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