Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The EPA is within the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service and is an agency of the Interior Department . |
| 3 | The earl of Richmond was captured , Ripon and York were raided and many laity and clergy were killed ; even Beverley was within the range of the Scots , but there the burgesses and canons saved their lives by paying a ransom of £400 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All riverfront industrial land in North Shields is within the designated area of the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation , the Urban Development Corporation , established in 1987 . |
| 6 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
| 7 | Quarries down the road at Ffestiniog are within the National Park , and expansion plans must be carefully thought out . |
| 8 | The two university towns of Cambridge and Oxford are within an hour 's driving distance . |
| 9 | Lakes , rolling hills and valleys abound , and with the south coast only seven miles away , day trips to Guernsey , Jersey and France are within an hour 's reach . |
| 10 | The question is all the more pointed now that Europe is within an ace of having its Maastricht Treaty ; the British government now seems confident of winning assent from the British Parliament ( although something could still go wrong ) while Denmark will probably vote YES in its second referendum on the issue on 15 May . |
| 11 | Fordingbridge was within the Wessex region where Hardy set his tales , and Elizabeth Downer gave birth to her son in the workhouse just seven years before his book was published . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It can also be clearly demonstrated that the ‘ best ’ curricula as designed by centres in Ghana , Nigeria or Kenya are within the competence of the ‘ best ’ schools , teachers and children . |
| 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 . |