Example sentences of "[vb base] within a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Both fit within a view of society in which men are heads of families . |
2 | He could be granted a free transfer by FIFA when they adjudicate within a fortnight . |
3 | ‘ If things go well I hope within a twelve-month to double the number of horses I own . ’ |
4 | Thus , a contract to sell crops which are growing or to be grown — whether they mature within a year ( e.g. wheat ) or not ( e.g. timber ) — is a contract of sale of goods . |
5 | Recent German statistics show that 30 per cent of retired people who have nothing that interests them , die within a year of retirement , regardless of the age at which they retired . |
6 | Dr Douglas Bennett , a psychiatrist renowned for his commitment to rehabilitation services , remarked that ‘ dust will settle ’ in facilities for continuing care unless there is constant vigilance to maintain standards , and I have seen residential homes , established on the surest clinical foundations with excellent staff , deteriorate within a couple of years to become merely average . |
7 | The heckling to which he was subjected at the Vietnam war memorial on May 31st was disturbing evidence of his failure , so far , to establish that universal respect in the country which most presidents acquire within a month of taking office . |
8 | However , all readers are entitled to assume that the conclusions they draw lie within a range shared by the narrator 's thoughts . |
9 | Large areas of open space at the Naze , under the control of the council 's leisure committee , lie within a Site of Importance to Nature Conservation ( SINC ) . |
10 | All sources lie within a beamwidth of each other , although the quoted positions are discrepant . |
11 | Most children recover within a week or two on the initial stages of the diet , but others take up to three weeks . |
12 | ( viii ) Five minutes after placing eggs in the above solution , suck up a single egg , together with a small drop of fixative , into a Spemann pipette with a fine point , then expel within a circle ( marked on the reverse side ) on a grease-free slide . |
13 | Is the autopsy going to give us much idea when Angela Morgan died — I mean within a day or so ? ’ |
14 | Any editorial insertions you make within a quotation should be enclosed within square brackets [ ] , as in : This tendency for the image of war to be distorted [ my italics ] has the effect of … encouraging unjustifiable patriotism . |
15 | These styles represent different levels of power , authority and influence within a school , and therefore different possibilities for action . |
16 | More radical socialists have been prepared to go even further : either insisting that markets operate within a framework of planning , or even proposing that markets themselves be ‘ socialized ’ , by inserting into them new institutions and procedures which will rob them of their tendencies to inequality and producer dominance . |
17 | Both parents and child operate within a system of mutuality where the behaviour of one produces effects on the other that in turn modify the behaviour of the first . |
18 | Dover points out that while non-Mendelian segregation of single copy genes can accelerate the increase in the frequency of a favoured mutation , this process would not create the cohesive pattern of genetic change that occurs when similar processes operate within a gene family whose members are distributed on two or more chromosomes . |
19 | As many as a million arrive within a space of two or three days on the island of St Kilda in the Scottish Hebrides . |
20 | Like all play , this drama depended on formal order , without which progress within a game and pleasure from a game are alike impossible : anyone who breaks the rules spoils the game , makes it a poor and foolish thing ( p. 20 ) . |
21 | They use the river banks as a guide and nearly always keep within a yard of them , so avoiding the main force of the river 's current . |
22 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
23 | Love within a partnership in which , for one of you , the love is still there and yearning to grow and develop , whilst for the other , it 's gone , it 's over , it 's finished . |
24 | Indeed , if we are going to give a full account of what practitioners do within a discipline , we are bound to use such terms as deciding , assessing , evaluating , judging and criticising . |
25 | In a recognition system this is non-trivial , requiring a ‘ word-lookup ’ stage to determine which valid character combinations exist within a character lattice . |
26 | Four such areas of opportunity exist within a company or industry : |
27 | ‘ In many instances , ’ writes Godwin , ‘ these hotbeds fever and vice are so effectually hidden by goodly houses that the inhabitants of the latter are scarcely aware of the poverty and disease which exist within a stone 's throw from their own doors . ’ |
28 | Whilst all research students are formally registered in one of the University 's Departments , opportunities for postgraduate study also exist within a number of Interdisciplinary Research Centres , details of which are available on page 45 . |
29 | I thought we could get on with him but I think within a week of moving in there we became entangled in David and Angela 's personal lives . |
30 | Housing official signed transfer forms and I was told I would receive notification of anew house within a week . |