Example sentences of "short [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is short for a par 5 but you soon realise why . |
| 2 | What are the salient physical characteristics shared by 20-stone Repton boxer Ray Tabi and Danny Thomas at 5 feet 8 inches , relatively short for a top football defender ? |
| 3 | It 's short for a word yes . |
| 4 | The lifetime of coins was indeed sometimes very short as a result of various political or economic factors . |
| 5 | She had copper-coloured hair , cut short as a boy 's at the back , with a mop of curls tilted jauntily forward at the front . |
| 6 | Lee began to chuckle , then stopped short as a sinister thought entered his head . |
| 7 | Thus , though it demonstrates the existence from the outset a common source of inspiration in Owenism for both trade unionism and co-operation , it demonstrates also that trade unionism saw Producer Co-operation not as an alternative and preferable way of organising manufacture and hence one to be adopted generally , not in short as a prime purpose , but as an occasional weapon . |
| 8 | One disabled man said his visits to his seriously ill mother were being cut short as a result . |
| 9 | His international career was killed off by Andy Roxburgh after one too many fall-outs with the Scotland chief and his Ibrox spell was tarnished when a pre-season trip was cut short after a clash with former manager Graeme Souness . |
| 10 | Their trip to Disney World in Florida was cut short after a terrifying ordeal when they were faced with a gang , brandishing a sawn-off shotgun . |
| 11 | That any of our pubs can , at a stroke , be shut down or altered by uncaring owners , without any proper consultation with users or the community , is little short of a continuing national disgrace . |
| 12 | But events have conspired to leave McGeechan well short of a full Lions choice . |
| 13 | ‘ Without those powers , hacking would be almost impossible to prove , short of a confession from the culprit . |
| 14 | ‘ The hardliners will not be satisfied with anything short of a total vindication of the Falklands and the ‘ dirty war ’ , ' said one Argentine military analyst . |
| 15 | Allan Lamb , the vice-captain , now finds himself short of a quorum for the easily-bored touring club , which usually takes the form of a private knockabout well out of earshot of Micky Stewart . |
| 16 | Any plotters would have to mount little short of a full-scale coup , involving probably the army and certainly the KGB . |
| 17 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 18 | Despite the huge number of potential customers ( just short of a million ) and the fact that all copies of Gudok were delivered free on the railways , the circulation was a paltry 30,000 in June . |
| 19 | Little short of a revolution has taken place inside the cabin , with the traditional Rolls/Bentley facia being superseded by a more modern arrangement siting the bulk of the instruments directly in front of the driver . |
| 20 | Paid cash for them , a couple of quid short of a hundred and twenty pounds . ’ |
| 21 | That is far short of a majority in the 543-member Lok Sabha , but with the opposition still technically divided into half a dozen factions , it would make Congress the biggest single party , and President Venkataraman would have to turn to it . |
| 22 | The shares are extremely good value for investors , short of a stock market apocalypse . |
| 23 | The shares are extremely good value for investors , short of a stock market apocalypse . |
| 24 | Yet England are short of a cover for Stevens — and that is some shortage — so Parker 's appearance tonight makes a bit of sense . |
| 25 | The way Westminster now treats MEPs is little short of a disgrace . |
| 26 | Short of a situation of mass genocide ( Kampuchea or Idi Amin 's Uganda ) individual peoples have to be left to fight their own battles , if they are to generate genuine and lasting solu tions for their own futures . |
| 27 | A few may flourish the 14 pages of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , 1970 ; seven inches of section 2 specifies a local authority 's obligation to lay on just about everything short of a course in elephant skinning : meals , education , holidays , telephones , and recreation are all there in paragraphs ( a ) to ( h ) . |
| 28 | Congress and its allies are 50 short of a majority in parliament . |
| 29 | The president has accused the defence minister , Husnu Dogan , a younger relation and an orphan brought up in the Ozal household , of being nothing short of a Brutus for opposing Semra 's decision . |
| 30 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |