Example sentences of "[noun] stop short [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland have offered some assistance in the Canadians ' injury crisis , physiotherapist Colin Elliot will be available to them , but it seems the Canadians stopped short of asking Scotland whether they could borrow their spare player — Stark — for the Fiji tournament , for which Canadian captain Julian Loveday has joined David Lougheed as an invalid . |
| 2 | Tuttle stopped short of saying that the Laetoli footprints were Homo — fossil remains of the same age were needed at Laetoli , he said . |
| 3 | Although the Bush administration stopped short of making a full protest , its official statement described the remarks as " not helpful " , and the issue added to the political pressures already mounting in the USA for protectionist action against Japan . |
| 4 | Although its plans stop short of adopting DCE outright , or even endorsing a third-party offering based upon the stuff , SunSoft will define a networking strategy for its Solaris Unix SVR4 operating system , which will include the ability to ‘ plug-in ’ DCE components , according to Ed Zander , president of the software unit . |
| 5 | Sir Anthony stopped short of blaming BR or the Government for creating the climate but added : ‘ There must be a better way of doing things . ’ |
| 6 | Wisely , perhaps , Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions , but two things are clear . |
| 7 | In another store one sales assistant stopped short of calling me stupid when I commented that a certain guitar was n't to my taste and a bit cheap-looking . |
| 8 | But the bishops stopped short of making a direct voting recommendation on the three polls expected to be held on November 25 , the day of the general election . |
| 9 | But councillors stopped short of extending the ban to land which is leased by tenant farmers . |
| 10 | But councillors stopped short of extending the ban to land which is leased by tenant farmers . |
| 11 | The Law Society stopped short of incorporating the rules about provision of information about costs into the new Practice Rule 15 . |
| 12 | However , the measures stopped short of establishing direct trade , transport and postal links , as demanded by many Taiwanese businesses . |
| 13 | The report stops short of recommending that the project be abandoned . |
| 14 | The SNH report stops short of recommending legislation to guarantee the right to roam . |
| 15 | At the insistence of the USA , the Convention stopped short of setting a binding target date for emission reductions , but recommended that industrialized states should aim to stabilize CO 2 emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 ( a target already agreed by the European Community " see p. 37784 " and Japan ) . |
| 16 | At the insistence of the USA , the Convention stopped short of setting a binding target date for emission reductions . |
| 17 | Churches stop short of backing anti-AIDS campaign |