Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] within [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set about a series of innovations that would give them access to that understanding , by means that were practicable within an already existing framework . |
| 2 | This kind of statement contrasts very sharply with the maps and lists of traditional dialectology , where elements are generally treated as if they were categorical within a given region . |
| 3 | They were pre-eminent within the interest-group world and were unchecked . |
| 4 | ‘ What we had done was to manufacture this and other statistical indices to allow us to prove our point and push a particular policy line , irrespective of the economic realities of the country , ’ says Budhoo , who claims that such ‘ errors ’ were commonplace within the Fund . |
| 5 | At the outset , five hypotheses were selected prospectively on the grounds that they were refutable within the context of the study design , that they were of relevance to current duodenal ulcer research , or that they were of potential importance for both ulcer healing and ulcer recurrence . |
| 6 | In certain areas of surface denudiation , damaged cells and cell fragments were still visible inside the gastric pits , whereas in other areas no cells were discernible within the pits ( Fig 5A ) . |
| 7 | In most cases the hereditary wardens and foresters of fee , or their heirs , were able within a few years to recover their bailiwicks by payment of substantial fines to the Crown . |
| 8 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 9 | This amounted to a reversal of the earlier gradualist assumption that a virtually full preparation of slaves for freedom was possible within the structure of slavery . |
| 10 | Most of the reduction came from the limited move away from the smaller sets towards the more advanced 60MW and 100MW designs which was possible within the conservative framework . |
| 11 | But what might be impossible for individuals was possible within the larger body of society . |
| 12 | It was conceded that their removal by the mother was wrongful within the terms of article 3 and accordingly the court had to consider the terms of article 12 which provides : |
| 13 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the Ontario court was seized of the matter and had jurisdiction to determine the place of the child 's residence ; that , accordingly , the court had rights of custody as defined by article 5 of the Convention ; and that , therefore , the wife 's removal of the child from his habitual place of residence , being in breach of the court 's rights of custody , was wrongful within the meaning of article 3 of the Convention ( post , pp. 870D–E , 874F–G , 875A ) . |
| 14 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 15 | The committee was told a Kincardine Bridge replacement was likely within the next few years , but was a separate issue and all transport organisations plus the Scottish Office agreed a new crossing of the Forth near the existing bridge was essential . |
| 16 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 17 | The schedule was used daily on alternate months for three periods before , and three periods after DMR was operational within the school . |
| 18 | A report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch , also published on July 9 , claimed that the problem of police brutality was widespread within the USA and that the federal government had " systematically avoided " taking steps to combat it . |
| 19 | It is significant , too , that the Crofters Commission , even during the period when the scheme was viable within the curriculum , could only operate it because of a gift from a private individual . |
| 20 | Freedom to protest in public would be less meaningful if the police were not committed to ensuring that it was unimpeded within the Queen 's Peace . |
| 21 | The effect of these inhibitors was evident within a few minutes and lasted for at least one hour . |
| 22 | This was notable within the national education system where , from the 1920s , the ensemble of pedagogic practices and knowledges began to be reordered around a " modern " curriculum centred upon English . |
| 23 | Together with the 1993 budget , unveiled the following day [ see below ] , the proposals within the State of the Union speech were portrayed as both a package for economic growth and an economic election manifesto , although most commentators found little that was new within the package . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought that Cadbury was realistic within the terms of reference he was given , ’ said Chris Swinson , chairman of the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group . |
| 25 | Mackworth himself was returned as MP for Shropshire and was active within the House , nominated to sixteen committees between September and December . |
| 26 | Her fellow students had noticed nothing , Pamela was active within the college and got on well with her friends . |
| 27 | Perhaps inevitably , he eventually contracted typhus at Kherson , in the Crimea , in January 1790 and was dead within a few days . |
| 28 | He went off to a pub , spent half an hour with his mates , and then reported to the casualty department and was dead within a quarter of an hour . |