Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [adv] within " in BNC.

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1 And the prominent prehistorian Professor R. J. C. Atkinson has clearly demonstrated that the laying out of an accurate , straight landscape line would have been well within the means of the megalithic builders .
2 This target should have been well within the reach of Horden , seeking their first win .
3 At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week .
4 Iago had brought him , and Iago should have been here within two more days to take him away , somewhat recovered now and strong enough to continue his flight into Wales .
5 The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play .
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