Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 2 | Any interesting or amusing incidents , photographed or recounted in a short article will be welcome . |
| 3 | If a school intends to operate a form of option system allowing pupils to drop history at Key Stage 4 or to opt for the short course or continue with the full course , pupils and parents will presumably wish to base their decision on performance to date . |
| 4 | This is a large species of eagle owl , hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti . |
| 5 | Dead birds were to be seen everywhere , and live ones , in quarrelling flocks , feeding on the burst stacks and blown seed-corn ; stabbing the cheeses that shone in the short winter grass ; pecking at the dried skeins of fish ; fluttering trapped beneath torn scraps of net . |
| 6 | There are only three sacral vertebrae that support the pelvis , the lowest number that occurs among dinosaurs , and the hand retains a fifth digit , albeit reduced to a short metacarpal . |
| 7 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 8 | My correspondent 's earliest and most vivid recollection of a haunted railway line dates from childhood memories of some sixty years ago and refers to the short length of line between Goldmire Junction and Millwood Junction on the old Furness Railway in the area of Dalton-in-Furness . |
| 9 | Typically , each chapter gives a brief introduction followed by preparative methods , arranged according to reagent used or building block employed , and concludes with a short section on biological activity . |
| 10 | Looking pink and refreshed after a short break , Mr Smith strode into the pokey committee rooms to a rabble-rousing welcome . |
| 11 | Afterwards lie down and relax for a short while . |
| 12 | There are so many things to see and do in a short stay . |
| 13 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |
| 14 | Asked by Crown counsel how Aindow had regained his balance , taken aim and fired in the short space of time available , the accused replied ‘ I do n't know ’ . |
| 15 | The New Oxford English Dictionary Project requires a sophisticated and novel computer system to be built and commissioned in a short period of time . |
| 16 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 17 | Her voice tailed away as with a seemingly effortless movement he found his feet , and bounded across the short distance to block her passage . |
| 18 | I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door . |
| 19 | They sat down and talked for a short time . |
| 20 | This exhibition , organised by David Yeomans and accompanied by a short book of the same title , explored the relationship between architectural design and carpentry from the mediaeval period to the present day . |
| 21 | The main features of tabes are an inability to balance when the eyes are shut , numbness , and ‘ tingling ’ sensations , ‘ lightning pains ’ , which are sharp , shooting pains , usually in the lower limbs , which may come and go in a short time or last for several days without remission . |
| 22 | In severely ill patients who undergo urgent cardiac transplantation and survive in the short term , long term ( 5–7 year ) survival and quality of life seem good . |
| 23 | Frontier checks and controls would have to be rationalized and relaxed in the short term . |
| 24 | It is much better to get out of bed and return after a short period when you feel more tired . |
| 25 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |
| 26 | Capacitor C2 is included to reduce the gain at d.c. to unity whilst appearing as a short circuit to a.c. signals . |
| 27 | A side-effect of this is that if your mail starts showing your long address as opposed to the short address given for your name on the list , the dopey list software rejects it . |
| 28 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |