Example sentences of "[adv] short of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rather different example from the same period , Scottish TV was so short of cash by February 1970 that it could not pay its ITA rental , nor the levy , nor its bills , nor get further credit from the bank . |
| 2 | Or was it true that the Church was so short of people of stature ( under the age of 73 ) that only one man among them had enough stature for the see of London and for that reason his scholarship must be sacrificed on the altar of a higher good ? |
| 3 | They were in the air for just under 12 hours and were so short of fuel upon their return , an emergency landing had to be made at Ludham . |
| 4 | Liverpool chief executive Peter Robinson is an experienced and respected figure , who is not short of ideas about ways of improving the game . |
| 5 | One difficulty , however , is that this offence covers a wide range of situations from killings just short of murder to carelessly causing death . |
| 6 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 7 | As a result the French navy was normally short of seamen throughout the century . |
| 8 | Walker dropped Mark Robins and brought in Efan Ekoku but Norwich looked woefully short of menace in attack . |
| 9 | Since 1981 a formally announced MLR has been abandoned , and the Bank of England no longer keeps discount houses deliberately short of liquidity as a matter of course . |
| 10 | He urged the Government to restore a ‘ right of entry ’ to Britain for Hong Kong people , which would fall technically short of right of abode , but would imply surety of refuge . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're rather short of news at Willesden . ’ |
| 12 | I would only add that although the behaviour of some of our major construction companies is a little short of criminal in some cases , no amount of legislation will change things unless subcontractors are prepared to band together and take a much firmer stance against some of their tactics ( they could start by employing members of the Institute perhaps ) . |
| 13 | That would be little short of disaster for the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury , which have invested fortunes building a high-quality image for their own-label goods . |
| 14 | You will seen in my reply to Mrs Butterworth of Ambleside that I mention the fact that the Catholic Voice is often short of material for publication . |
| 15 | Because China was often short of material to fuel ovens , a cuisine sprang up where a strong flame cooked food very quickly . |
| 16 | It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange . |
| 17 | But all this stops far short of acceptance of the need for a root-and-branch reform of spending . |
| 18 | East Germany also fell far short of targets for residential construction despite stepped-up efforts to rectify a longtime housing shortage . |
| 19 | The proposals fell far short of arrangements for Palestinian " full autonomy " which Israel had endorsed in the first of the two Camp David agreements signed with Egypt in September 1978 [ see pp. 29654-69 ] . |
| 20 | So , while England fall well short of support from six countries , India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka have two ready-made allies and need just one more . |
| 21 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 22 | Perhaps because Angell 's analysis did not attack the Establishment , he was never short of friends in high places . |
| 23 | We apprentices were never short of advice on what was wrong with society and the system . |
| 24 | Some areas , particularly in the North , are very short of staff at all levels and make do with less well-trained people . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , they are sometimes too short of money for this to be possible . |
| 26 | I was just a bit too short of time on , on Friday to That 's about all I need . |