Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a short " in BNC.
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| 1 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 2 | Most moves are of a short distance and into larger schools , away from schools in areas with a high proportion of local authority housing , towards less disadvantaged areas and to schools with high academic attainment . |
| 3 | Newmarket , famous for its horse-racing , and Lavenham , a very pretty town lined with half-timbered buildings , are within a short drive . |
| 4 | The Conference Centre and all local attractions and amenities are within a short walk . |
| 5 | Because it would only be for a short time , Lucien 's parents had decided it would not be a religious transgression for his aunt Pershti , his mother 's lover , to look after him . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm on a short lease but I 've never discussed in personally with the prince at any stage . |
| 7 | Any lease issued now should of course be on a short term basis , as Development Proposals in some shape or form are likely to be implemented . |
| 8 | Spinners were of a short , fat , carrot-like shape , turned in hardwood with a coned-shape metal stud in the centre of the base on which the top spun . |
| 9 | In terms of style it 's like a short Bach piece containing lots of idiomatic motifs and pedal tone ideas . |
| 10 | Oliver Goldsmith , in his Natural History , described the effects of sleep loss thus : But man is more feeble ; he requires its due return ; and if it fails to pay the accustomed visit , his whole frame is in a short time thrown into disorder ; his appetite ceases ; his spirits are dejected ; his pulse becomes quicker and harder ; and his mind , abridged of its slumbering visions , begins to adopt waking dreams . |
| 11 | With a zoom , however , it is larger when the angle is wide and the lens is at a short setting ( eg 25mm ) and becomes smaller as the focal length increases — the beam of light , originally wide , is ‘ squashed ’ within the longer tube and becomes narrower , while distances between camera and mirror and between mirror and screen remain the same ( the screen would have to move backwards at a measured rate for the image to stay the same size ) . |
| 12 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 13 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 14 | Pain entered my left arm and was for a short time , half a minute or so , quite hurtful . |
| 15 | James 's original idea was for a short sea crossing from Ambleteuse near Calais , where he had landed at the start of his exile , and from here he proposed a descent on Kent . |
| 16 | The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith . |
| 17 | He was for a short while editor of Truth . |
| 18 | Could they only stand it because it was for a short unreal interval , whereas for him it was the real bit of his life , this little pocket of otherness , of ‘ unreality ’ , but for him it had been central , the power house , the full granary , the fulcrum . |
| 19 | Relevant factors included ( 1 ) the hirer 's lack of expertise in the plant hire business ; ( 2 ) that the contract was arranged at short notice and was for a short period of hire ; it was therefore difficult for the plaintiff hirers to arrange insurance cover ; ( 3 ) that the clause was not the subject of negotiation ; ( 4 ) that the hirers had little or no control over the way the driver did his job . |
| 20 | It was during a short stay in December 1986 with friends at their cottage near the village of Carno in beautiful Mid Wales that first learnt of a nearby former railway station coming up for sale . |
| 21 | Instead the address which he had at last been persuaded to give was in a short and narrow street off the Edgware Road , an enclave of cheap , unsmart cafés chiefly Goan and Greek . |
| 22 | She was in a short , lightweight dress and her legs swung rather beautifully — there was a lot of them to swing . |
| 23 | ‘ She was until a short while ago , until she met your brother . ’ |
| 24 | He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa . |
| 25 | His voice was beginning to rise and it was obvious that his temper was on a short fuse . |