Example sentences of "[pron] within an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are coming home with me now , and if you so much as open that foul mouth of yours , I 'll beat you within an inch of your life . ’ |
| 2 | Awards are nice for the day , and they glitter — my mother has got all mine and she polishes them within an inch of their lives , she 's polished all the gold glitter away and it 's base metal underneath , and I think that 's a fairly apt analogy of what a prize is . |
| 3 | The Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) aims to stabilise currencies by keeping them within an agreed band . |
| 4 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 5 | At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence . |
| 6 | Would you rather I thrashed him within an inch of his life ? |
| 7 | The few who , influenced by psychoanalysis and poststructuralism , take a more serious approach to it , tend to address it within an orthodox social cognitivist framework , to treat it as an illustration of larger , more obviously social discursive structure , or to ground it finally in an idealized unconscious subjectivity . |
| 8 | In this project Kempson and colleagues will work on the development of a parser for Kempson 's model by embedding it within an already established computational environment . |
| 9 | You no longer have to bring it within an exception . |
| 10 | Instead she attacked her flat , scouring it within an inch of its life , and finally collapsed exhausted into the bath at five . |
| 11 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |