Example sentences of "be of short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emergency Protection Orders will be of short duration and courts and their officers must work to timetables to avoid the damaging effects of delay and long drawn-out decision-making . |
| 2 | As a result the remedy can be repeated without causing the patient any aggravation ; or if aggravation should occur it will be of short duration , easily controlled . |
| 3 | It has been well observed that classical revivals tend to be of short duration . |
| 4 | ‘ The face of nature under one broad and universal glare ( a cloudless midsummer day ) is not propitious to the feelings of an anxious spectator ; but this monotony can only be of short duration , because the declining sun … produces shadows ; these gradually expanding , uniting and finally on the setting of the sun … exhibit an almost infinite variety of form , of tone and of colour . ’ |
| 5 | It was therefore at Florence that agreement between Greeks and Latins was reached — though again it was to be of short duration . |
| 6 | The agreement was clearly intended to be of short duration and could have been secured by a lease for a fixed term , say five or ten years with power for the landlord to determine before the expiry of that period for the purposes of the road widening . |
| 7 | Without East Anglian acceptance of a subordinate role , Offa 's Anglian empire would be of short duration . |
| 8 | Compared to states or executives , governments tend to be of short duration — state institutions often remain in existence for long periods and officials in the executive may have lifelong careers , while governments come and go ( although some of their personnel may hold office in more than one government ) . |
| 9 | Physicians may favour age criteria because they believe that the elderly are unlikely to benefit from treatment , that any benefit these patients enjoy will be of short duration , or that a diminished quality of life after treatment negates any possible benefit . |