Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Noel Coward lyric goes ‘ Bad times are just around the corner ’ ( ‘ There are black clouds over the dark cliffs of Dover ’ ) and many homes this Christmas will be Dickensian in a depressing rather than a jolly sense . |
| 2 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 3 | Yet the public is regularly given the impression that a general solution to the problem of natural-language understanding has been found , and that computers with the ability to chat to us and with various other human characteristics are just around the corner . |
| 4 | The way this business is moving , you really never know what exciting new opportunities are just around the corner . |
| 5 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 6 | Preston Street with its many varied restaurants is just around the corner . |
| 7 | My car 's just round the corner . ’ |
| 8 | But , times are moving on , local government review is just round the corner , and erm , we see that grant maintained schools of course are coming along . |
| 9 | Home Rule was just around the corner . |
| 10 | Daylight was just around the corner however , but by the time daylight did arrive , although she and her pride were very much certain that she 'd see Vendelin Gajdusek in hell before she ever spoke to him again , certain other practicalities had entered her head . |
| 11 | Gone are the days when Grandma lived down the road and Auntie Maud was just around the corner , each of them providing a comforting and experienced shoulder for the young mother to lean upon . |
| 12 | Spokesman John Dunwell said : ‘ Our premises in Zetland Road are just round the corner from from the town 's red light district and some of our members do not like using the building because of the district 's association with prostitution . |
| 13 | But now that retirement is just around the corner we are all really looking forward to spending more time there . |
| 14 | THE Bank of England last night sank lingering Tory hopes that the recovery is just round the corner . |
| 15 | Labour has campaigned strongly on its £1 billion ‘ recovery package ’ while Mr Lilley , a firm believer in Thatcherite non-intervention , has had to rely on promises that recovery is just around the corner . |
| 16 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 17 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 18 | Old ladies trapped in time imagine they are in 1929 and love 's first blossoms are just around the corner , an old man feels angry and cheated that 40 years of his life have disappeared . |
| 19 | Marsh Lane police station is just round the corner from the Strand where they abducted him , ’ a middle-aged man said . |
| 20 | Children in need night 's just around the corner , so come into Radio Nottingham soon and purchase your Pudsey . |
| 21 | And er ooh what was the name , there was a grocery shop and then there was a , a confectioner 's right on the corner of erm er is it called , that leads off in , into It only , only a short street , there 's no houses in it actually . |
| 22 | For years articles like this have been heralding the ‘ impending ’ arrival of a new British Standard for plain clay roofing tiles : good news was just around the corner . |
| 23 | Even then , when others were talking of fusion reactors being just around the corner , Cockcroft warmed that ‘ it is difficult for us with our limited vision to see far enough ahead to say whether and when the final goal can be achieved . |
| 24 | Equally , however , there are respected industry commentators who are certain that the first agreed takeover of a building society is just around the corner . |
| 25 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 26 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 27 | However , Gav 's biggest collar is just around the corner . |
| 28 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 29 | A panda will eat meat if the opportunity arises , but it seems the attitude is not one of a hunter — the effort seems to great when the sun is warm and a cosy spot for a nap is just round the corner . |
| 30 | But a new row was just around the corner . |