Example sentences of "[prep] [be] within [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I said I had no intention of being within a couple of light years of the Mimosa when Plod and the SWAT team burst in .
2 He conveys with a sure sense of atmosphere and detail the satisfaction of getting a job done , the feeling of being within a tradition of a long line of settlers of the land , and the sheer hard work which that entails : from persuading recalcitrant committees to support his endeavours to the literally back-breaking labour of dragging obstinate lumps of bog oak out of the peat to facilitate ploughing .
3 For the requirements excluding places at which meals are served or places at which alcoholic liquor is dispensed from being within the meaning of " bar counter , " see s.139(2) ) .
4 Unless the court otherwise orders , an affidavit may be used notwithstanding that it contains statements of information or belief , but every affidavit shall state which of the facts deposed to are within the deponent 's knowledge and which are based on information or belief and shall give , in the former case , his means of knowledge and , in the latter case , the sources and grounds of the information or belief ( Ord 20 , r 10 ) .
5 In addition , every stone circle in England and Wales was found to be within a mile ( 1.5 km ) of a surface fault or on an associated intrusion .
6 It was proposed to build a railway ‘ Halt ’ specifically for the Depot along the South Gate railway bridge , allowing workers from outlying districts to be within a minute 's walk of the Depot Gate .
7 Far more important was the fact that this baby girl , born two weeks after the defeat of a Scottish army by the English at Solway Moss , and at a time when her remarkable father James V was lying burnt out at the age of thirty in his glorious hunting-lodge at Falkland , was to be within a week of her birth queen of the Scots .
8 Taking the present temperature gradient of 15°F per 1000 ft ( 28°C per km ) measured in the Larne-2 borehole as representative of the post-Triassic history of the area , it is estimated that where source rocks now occur beneath the Permo-Triassic of the Larne and Lough Neagh basins at depths in excess of about 11,000 feet , they would be expected to be within the gas zone with their coals generating abundant methane .
9 The BC109C was selected as it claims to have a spread from 380 to 800 at 2mA and is more likely to be within the spec we require .
10 The US contribution of $70 million is likely to come from a NASA programme to support international collaboration , and the overall cost to the European agency is estimated to be within the budget of £260 million .
11 The interpretation of this would appear to be within the competence of the state of origin , and it is to be hoped that an interpretation reflecting the realities of the position would always be adopted ; what is important to the defendant is prompt access to the information he needs in order to judge how to respond to the current move by the other party .
12 Their music is simple enough to be within the competence of an average choir , yet has the melodic , harmonic and rhythmic interest which gives satisfaction and enjoyment both to singers and to congregations .
13 To be within the sections a transaction must possess certain features .
14 In my professional view , cos if the new settlement has to be in is ch is i has to be within the greenbelt then it 's better to go for peripheral development rather than have a new settlement in the first place .
15 Policy H Seven applies in the event of Skelton being an inset area when any development would have to be within the settlement , and no more than small-scale , precluding D thirty nine and D forty .
16 For example , it may be more important for a government that a public sector pay settlement appear to be within the limits of pay policy , than for it actually to be so .
17 Curriculum workers are resolutely opposed to excluding content and approaches which they know , with good teaching , to be within the grasp of a fair percentage of the nation 's children .
18 Even in physics and chemistry they still appeared to be within the grasp of the ‘ practical man ’ — say a civil engineer .
19 Provides for nine thousand seven hundred dwellings to be within the Greater York Area .
20 Allan Rodway and Mark Roberts , for example , argue that certain authors require " too mature a taste " to be within the reach of " any but the exceptional undergraduate " .
21 To prevent failures of this order , even if success was not absolutely assured , might , other things being equal , have seemed to be within the scope of US policy at the time .
22 Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question .
23 The case seems to me to be within the decision of Hicks v. Gregory ( ( 1849 ) 8 C.B. 378 ) on which the judge relied .
24 It is constantly compared with the ancient rock paintings in the Lascaux caves , which happen to be within the breed 's native region .
25 Assuming a treaty to be within the authority of the protecting State , should a claim be brought against it or the protected State ?
26 Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since .
27 No places were to be taken to be within the forest if no Forest courts had been held , verderers elected or regards made in them since 1565 .
28 Any ambitions we have have got to be within the terms of those realities . ’
29 In Britain there was a significant reduction in the number of employees eligible for employment protection , so that to be within the terms of the Employment Protection Act , they had to be working for two years instead of , as previously , six months .
30 On Nov. 22 government spokesperson Yuan Mu said that China 's foreign debt stood at $44,000 million , and overall repayments for 1990 were estimated to be within the target $7,000-$8,000 million .
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