Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | By her fireside there was a settee and a table , ‘ and old granny was in the corner . |
| 2 | Only five minutes walk from central Amalfi and close to the seafront this hotel is on a corner site of the main coast road and boasts an intriguing past . |
| 3 | A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled . |
| 4 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 5 | The rise in unemployment frustrated the government 's spending plans , because of the rising costs of social security ; it also undermined the credibility of the government 's claims that its economic strategy was working and that economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 6 | The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 7 | believing the big break is round every corner |
| 8 | From the photograph of the crash we had seen that the demolished house was on the corner of a small lane , and although the house had been rebuilt , when we arrived at the place the position was easily identified . |