Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] within " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been within inches of the goal because when Swift collected the deflection , he was running along his own goal-line for dear life . |
| 2 | It was ‘ abundantly clear that the byelaw maker , if he had appreciated the limitation on his powers , would both at Greenham Common and at Fylingdales nevertheless have gone on to make the bylaws in such a way that the proviso to section 14(1) was given effect but all the world save commoners would still have been within their ambit ’ . |
| 3 | But a ‘ raspberry flavour ’ food need never have been within sniffing distance of a raspberry . |
| 4 | If things had gone according to plan , Jack would n't have been within 325 000 kilometres of Apollo 13 on that fateful day , 13 April . |
| 5 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 6 | Spears and axes have utilitarian forms , the manufacture of which would have been within the abilities of anyone with basic smithing experience ; both have sockets for handles/shafts which would have been created by beating the iron around a former . |
| 7 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 8 | The suspect in Jones , reported at [ 1984 ] Crim.LR. 357 and decided before PACE came into force , might well have been within the class of persons now entitled to this special protection . |
| 9 | Many felt that what had happened may have been within the laws of the game but was certainly outside the spirit , and could have serious consequences for the rest of the tour . |
| 10 | Later that week we were given a first indication that the previous three ‘ greenhouse ’ winters may merely have been within the normal climatic variations and that a better season may be on its way , when the first Pitztal race was cancelled due to extreme cold ! |
| 11 | I believe that the Hon. Gentleman is talking about what might have been within the scope of new clause 6 had Mr. [ Mr. Deputy Speaker ] |
| 12 | Generally , it is agreed that whatever the magnitude of the effects of the soot plumes on the monsoon , it will have been within the range of natural interannual variability and very difficult , if not impossible , to substantiate . |
| 13 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 14 | It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels . |
| 15 | Since aerial photography of cropmarks has now shown that such sites are widespread , particularly beneath a number of later hillforts and in numerous river valleys , most parts of southern Britain may well have been within the territory of , and exploited by , one or other of these sites in Neolithic times . |
| 16 | Lord Justice Parker differentiated between liability of the car driver to her passenger , who must have been within her reasonable contemplation as being likely to be affected by her omission to remove her broken down car from the carriageway and any drivers who may have been proceeding in the opposite direction on the other carriageway . |
| 17 | For cover to operate on either Policy Form the vessel must have been within the prescribed cruising range when the casualty occurred . |