Example sentences of "short of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That any of our pubs can , at a stroke , be shut down or altered by uncaring owners , without any proper consultation with users or the community , is little short of a continuing national disgrace . |
| 2 | But events have conspired to leave McGeechan well short of a full Lions choice . |
| 3 | ‘ Without those powers , hacking would be almost impossible to prove , short of a confession from the culprit . |
| 4 | ‘ The hardliners will not be satisfied with anything short of a total vindication of the Falklands and the ‘ dirty war ’ , ' said one Argentine military analyst . |
| 5 | Allan Lamb , the vice-captain , now finds himself short of a quorum for the easily-bored touring club , which usually takes the form of a private knockabout well out of earshot of Micky Stewart . |
| 6 | Any plotters would have to mount little short of a full-scale coup , involving probably the army and certainly the KGB . |
| 7 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 8 | Despite the huge number of potential customers ( just short of a million ) and the fact that all copies of Gudok were delivered free on the railways , the circulation was a paltry 30,000 in June . |
| 9 | Little short of a revolution has taken place inside the cabin , with the traditional Rolls/Bentley facia being superseded by a more modern arrangement siting the bulk of the instruments directly in front of the driver . |
| 10 | Paid cash for them , a couple of quid short of a hundred and twenty pounds . ’ |
| 11 | That is far short of a majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha , but with the opposition still technically divided into half a dozen factions , it would make Congress the biggest single party , and President Venkataraman would have to turn to it . |
| 12 | The shares are extremely good value for investors , short of a stock market apocalypse . |
| 13 | The shares are extremely good value for investors , short of a stock market apocalypse . |
| 14 | Yet England are short of a cover for Stevens — and that is some shortage — so Parker 's appearance tonight makes a bit of sense . |
| 15 | The way Westminster now treats MEPs is little short of a disgrace . |
| 16 | Short of a situation of mass genocide ( Kampuchea or Idi Amin 's Uganda ) individual peoples have to be left to fight their own battles , if they are to generate genuine and lasting solu tions for their own futures . |
| 17 | A few may flourish the 14 pages of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , 1970 ; seven inches of section 2 specifies a local authority 's obligation to lay on just about everything short of a course in elephant skinning : meals , education , holidays , telephones , and recreation are all there in paragraphs ( a ) to ( h ) . |
| 18 | Congress and its allies are 50 short of a majority in parliament . |
| 19 | The president has accused the defence minister , Husnu Dogan , a younger relation and an orphan brought up in the Ozal household , of being nothing short of a Brutus for opposing Semra 's decision . |
| 20 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 21 | The Socialists ' meagre ranks , already 16 short of a clear parliamentary majority , have been further depleted by the appointment of a fresh bunch of nine Socialist deputies to the government . |
| 22 | It had suddenly found itself desperately short of a special washer — waxed and made of felt — that is a vital bit in the detonation process inside the RAF 's latest 1,000lb bombs . |
| 23 | Jeff Dujon has tried to take evasive action from a ball that has climbed from just short of a length , but has gloved it . |
| 24 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , this is not to be , since it transpires that the gentleman from British Rail was nothing short of a duplicitous cad ; there are no small compartments , just open-plan carriages too large to be defended by even the most outrageous behaviour , so I slump sullenly into a corner , wallowing in layers of dust and grime that would easily qualify for a Quentin Crisp kitemark , waiting for the guard to switch on the heat and the lights , preparatory to the departure of the Sir John . |
| 26 | H e certainly would n't be short of a dollar or two . |
| 27 | With the raffle short of a grand by just a few quid , the cry for the remainder went up . |
| 28 | Appeasement did not work , because nothing short of a united Ireland had been their ‘ real ’ ambition from the start . |
| 29 | During the eighth and ninth centuries the Christian church effected nothing short of a revolution in the forms of Western politics . |
| 30 | The Arts : A few peas short of a majority ? |