Example sentences of "[was/were] within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 2 | The raw emotions depicted in such stories would be unbearable if they were within a contemporary setting : it is the thought that ‘ this happened in the past ’ that buffers the reader . |
| 3 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 4 | Only when we were within a few hundred yards of it could we see the waves frothing over and around it , giving just a hint of the menace below . |
| 5 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 6 | All this was even more true of the middling and lesser landowning and rent-paying peasantry , caught as many of its members were within a web of economic , cultural and ideological subjection to their social superiors and an authoritarian Church . |
| 7 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 8 | All were within a 500-mile radius of Whaddon , and many misguided soccer fans preferred travelling to those grounds rather than succumb to the semi-pro subtleties on show at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course I do , ’ he replied , relaxing and stretching his long legs out in front of him , so that they were within a hair 's breadth of brushing against hers . |
| 10 | We kept our faces deep in our cowls , gave false names at taverns and refused to talk or discuss any matter while we were within a bow shot of anyone else . |
| 11 | Any one of the three main political parties could take the seat because they were within a few percentage points of each other at the last election . |
| 12 | Molly and Paul knew all the true joys that were within an hour 's walking time of Thrush Green . |
| 13 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 14 | Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal . |
| 15 | Consequently , LEAs earmarking certain discretionary items in this way would still have to count them in calculating that they were within the 10 per cent limit . |
| 16 | Although all Colleges that were within the control of the LEA had broadly similar organisation structures , at a detailed level there were significant differences ( ie in structural arrangements and in the numbers and expertise of staff ) , and it was not appropriate to make detailed proposals for individual Colleges at this stage . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the frequencies evoked by stretching the nodes were within the ranges of the frequencies of the spontaneous movements observed in the lymph nodes from the other animals . |
| 18 | Most were within the first three years of taking out a mortgage and among people who bought property early in 1988 on over-generous terms that stretched monthly payments to the limits . |
| 19 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 20 | Margaret 's marriage to either candidate required a papal dispensation , for both were within the forbidden degrees , and Charles put pressure on the Pope to refuse a dispensation for Margaret to marry Edmund Langley . |
| 21 | In an ongoing study ( A Stewart , D Brenton , personal communication ) of 15 infants conceived under dietary control ( mean phenylalanine values in first trimester 213–496 µmol/l — twice to four times normal ) Griffiths developmental quotients at one year were within the normal range and head circumferences were at or above the 10th centile . |
| 22 | An audit of prescribing of gentamicin in Leicester showed that this approach considerably increased the number of gentamicin concentration that were within the therapeutic range when measured after one to two days ' treatment . |
| 23 | But these gains were within the context of the exclusion of married women from social labour and emerging stereotypes ( even though constantly challenged ) which stressed either her delicacy and her sexual timidity or her purity . |
| 24 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 25 | In 1170 he had persuaded Marie , Viscountess of Bearn , to do homage to him for all her lands — and this included some estates which , theoretically speaking , were within the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 26 | However , it has been calculated ( Justices ' Clerks ' Society , 1992 ) that 57 per cent of such cases received sentences that were within the sentencing powers of the magistrates ' courts , and this suggests that a majority of these offences could have been tried summarily . |
| 27 | The earlier distinction between those matters which fell within ministerial or local authority discretion and those which were within the competence of the courts to adjudicate became increasingly blurred . |
| 28 | Only when they were within the house , in the timber-scented darkness of the staircase , did she halt to kindle a light . |
| 29 | Until the time for felling , it therefore could not be said which trees were within the contract . |
| 30 | It decided that further discussion was needed on what measures were within the Assembly 's competence under the federal Constitution . |