Example sentences of "short of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There will be no complaints from 26-year-old Flowers , even though it was his self-confidence which seemed to infect an England team short of inspiration in the past two weeks . |
| 2 | My visit might have ended there if my car had not run short of petrol on the road south of Nahariya . |
| 3 | The loss of Steve Hodge with hamstring trouble 24 hours after the withdrawal of John Barnes , has left England short of cover on the flanks , but Robson again decided against summoning a replacement . |
| 4 | As a result the French navy was normally short of seamen throughout the century . |
| 5 | And they will never be short of custom until the government acts . |
| 6 | Trading was light for most of the day but brisker buying may be resumed when the market opens today if dealers want to ensure they are not left short of supplies by the proposed cuts due to go into force on 1 March . |
| 7 | If a discount house finds itself short of funds after the Bank 's main bill business has been concluded , it can request to borrow on a secured basis from the Bank . |
| 8 | If a discount house finds itself short of funds after the final round of assistance at 2.00 p.m. then money may be borrowed from the Bank on a secured basis within its agreed facilities . |
| 9 | If the powers that prowled this world tonight wanted him dispatched , nothing short of intervention from the Unbeheld Himself , Hapexamendios , the all-powerful occupant of the First Dominion , would save him . |
| 10 | Experience shows that people often run themselves short of height on the way right round . |
| 11 | In specific areas of the programme I am short of men of the required experience . |
| 12 | When Henry V of England was short of cash for the French wars he pawned one of his crowns , probably the Plantagenet crown , to the Mayor of Norwich . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | FORTY years at Sellafield have come to an end for Harry Brocklebank , but he will not be short of news about the site . |
| 16 | CHAMPIONS Chelmsford finished just 10 runs short of victory in the opening round of matches in this season 's Colour Assembly Essex League . |
| 17 | The Sergeant was short of expletives by the end of the tour of inspection . |
| 18 | But all this stops far short of acceptance of the need for a root-and-branch reform of spending . |
| 19 | That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days . |