Example sentences of "[adj] and within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task should be specific , interesting and within the group 's capability . |
| 2 | She 's soaking wet and within a few thrusts I 'm ready to come and she 's panting , then grunting then calling out , ‘ Oh , fuck , yes ! ’ and then it 's all over and I collapse over her and then fall off her and almost cut my ear on the cool blade of the kitchen knife lying on the sheet . |
| 3 | Thinking about the past , helping to build a cupboard , playing in the village band or photographing the bootmaker and the carpenter , Mr Spender seems contented and within the Tuscany he was looking for when he was , as he says , tired of the ‘ thin blue light of London ’ . |
| 4 | In January 1963 Hugh Gaitskell , the leader of the Labour party , died at the age of fifty-six and within a month was succeeded by Harold Wilson . |
| 5 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 6 | Mental disturbance requiring such security is often short-lived and within a week or two the person may be well enough to enjoy the normal freedoms accorded other patients . |
| 7 | I had left the technical college in February 1980 and within a few weeks had landed an audio typist 's job with a trendy voluntary housing organization . |
| 8 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
| 9 | Essentially the Wolfenden recommendations and their legislative enactment were a public denouncement of prostitution and an affirmation of the importance of ‘ normal ’ sexual relationships ( monogamous and within the family ) . |
| 10 | Clutterbuck Deane died in 1701 and within a year Mary had sold the mill to Thomas Shurmur , in whose family it was to remain for a century . |
| 11 | Yet the inherent authenticity and force of such mystical experience are the heritage of all and within the potential grasp of all human beings . |
| 12 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 13 | Population ageing is operating at two distinct levels : societal and within the older age groups itself . |
| 14 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 15 | For this to be so , the activity must be varied , continuous and within the student 's capability ; it must be meaningful and not just " busy work " , and it must be progressive . |
| 16 | Finally , I shall turn to a religious position such as my own which is not Christian , though religious and within the western tradition , in which the present is normative and the past is only drawn upon in so far as that seems to be appropriate . |
| 17 | You will know that , in your present life , you can meet someone new and within no time at all that person becomes a true friend . |
| 18 | Leading 10-8 and within a frame of the title , Wattana had the sublime confidence of youth to go for the $100,000 jackpot prize on offer for a 147 , choosing reds more suitable for continuing the red-black sequence than those which offered maximum certainty of winning the title-clinching frame . |
| 19 | They sent letters appealing to customers to pay part at least of what they owed in 1955 and within a week the £600,000 had been reduced by £150,000 . |
| 20 | It includes people who were domiciled in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and within the three years immediately preceding the relevant time . |
| 21 | Whilst what is meant by ‘ organised backlash ’ is never made clear , it is probably not unreasonable to infer that it implies that it occurred after 1968 and within a limited historical period . |