Example sentences of "was within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Halifax was within a whisker of becoming Britain 's wartime leader and , as this new study makes clear , was central in turning the Chamberlain government away from appeasement and towards war preparations . |
| 2 | IAN WOOSNAM , so out of form coming into the Masters , nevertheless began to put up an heroic defence at Augusta National yesterday and was within a stroke of the lead as he came into the finishing holes in his second round . |
| 3 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
| 4 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 5 | The training officer group were more likely to refer to joint or group decisions , none of them specifically mentioned the need for central approval , few mentioned relevancy to post as being essential ( or if they did it was within a wider framework of reference than relevance to post alone ) , and they were more likely to specify that the needs of the service and the needs of the individual were both taken into account . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s when the idea of JET was first conceived , the best recorded value fell short by a factor of 25 000 ; by 1990 JET was within a factor Of 20 . |
| 7 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
| 8 | Unfortunately he was standing right beside the door with the new aerial mounted on it and his voice was within a gnat 's whisker of being raised a few octaves . |
| 9 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 10 | The florid countenance was within a foot of Melissa 's face . |
| 11 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
| 12 | This capitalist thrust was within a largely pre-capitalist social formation . |
| 13 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 14 | I think it was within a month or so of his departure that I received a phone call from a friend of mine at Grantham : " Look , for God 's sake let's get rid of this Dutch friend of yours , he 's a menace . " |
| 15 | He was within a a whisker of death ! |
| 16 | The attack was within the context of a speech largely praising the Roman catholic church in Ireland . |
| 17 | The key phrase used by Mr Meacher is that there should be a ‘ genuine interest ’ involved before industrial action was within the law . |
| 18 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 19 | ‘ But in the Government 's view the Department 's handling of the case was within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator . ’ |
| 20 | The reduction of British troops on the Continent was within the competence of the British Government : cutting back overseas garrisons was not so amenable to arbitrary decisions in Whitehall . |
| 21 | ‘ It may have been the innermost box or it may have overlapped with other sub-boxes , but it was within the compartment , yes . ’ |
| 22 | Careful study of the map showed him that his house was in neither parish ; it was within the boundary of a parish in which he and a lot of black-face sheep were the only inhabitants . |
| 23 | For three quarters of the race she was within the time for for another British mark , but as she explained afterwards : ‘ Two hard 50-metres just before meant I was lacking at the end . ’ |
| 24 | It was within the period 1650–1710 that the building of many stone houses took place and the galleries with them . |
| 25 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 26 | Another interest that he had in the scheme was that his clerk occupied No. 20 South Parade , which was within the area covered by the 1855 Act , and Brunel 's office and home were at No. 18 Duke Street , adjacent to the site . |
| 27 | As the site of Montagu House was within the area of the block plan design , the article asserted that neither the Duke nor Burn would be disinterested assessors . |
| 28 | A significant development in church planting in the 1980s was within the Church of England , although in this case the growth was not without frustrations . |
| 29 | The practical corollary of this , tirelessly expounded in the Round Table in the post-war years , was that the safest place for brown races , for now and the foreseeable future , was within the British empire , where their interests could be looked after and their development , at an appropriately gradual pace , ensured . |
| 30 | The Crown applied to strike out the originating summons on the grounds that the point at issue was within the Special Commissioners ' exclusive jurisdiction . |