Example sentences of "within a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Within a comprehensive school it is perfectly possible for children to be ambitious and competitive , for them to submit to a proper discipline , one imposed both by their teachers , and by the rigours of the subject itself that they are studying .
2 Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson .
3 We are settled on the southern shore , called Belmont for the amenity of the situation , within a stout stockade I am causing to be built .
4 Within a hundred metres he came across the first tank paths , ghost-like trails that appeared to be overgrown now , ever since the Russians had pulled out and taken their exhaust-belching tanks home on low-loader trains .
5 I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former .
6 In the case of contracts creating continuing or recurrent liabilities incident to the disposition or holding of property , such as a settlement or a leasehold tenancy , the infant , on attaining full age , becomes bound unless within a reasonable time he takes steps to repudiate liability .
7 In any event , if he does not reject the goods within a reasonable time he will be deemed to have accepted them .
8 Within a single environment it should provide , at the very least , word processing , graphics and composition facilities and , ideally , operate in a consistent manner across all three .
9 Within a large movement it is usual to establish one main key for the whole piece , but to have one or more separate sections in harmonic contrast .
10 For example , in France , we have to comply with the French plan comptable , so within a particular row you state the origin of the information , that is , which nominal ledger account you want to get it from — we have a fairly simple account code structure with cost centre account codes — then you say the club name and its account number .
11 But if a recognised and accepted scale of ranks were needed within a particular society it was just as essential within the international one made up of different states which Europe was increasingly becoming .
12 The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times .
13 But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea .
14 Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast .
15 Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me .
16 Within a few moments you will start to lose your balance .
17 Within a few pages we move through a recognition and rejection of the fantasy of the Perfect Mother , an understanding of her mothers ' reality and an account of telling her mother , who Is at this point 80 .
18 The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis .
19 Within a few hours they had 50 signatures .
20 Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface .
21 Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place .
22 Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it .
23 Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge .
24 Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain .
25 Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King .
26 Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun .
27 Whatever mood you are in when you arrive at HCI 's Club Romantica … you can be sure that within a few minutes you 'll feel at home in this pretty village of chalet bungalows surrounded by trees and flowers .
28 Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row .
29 ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it .
30 I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line .
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