Example sentences of "within [art] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Scandinavian countries the predominant role of central organisations of employers and workers in negotiating collective agreements is best known in Sweden . |
| 2 | Furthermore , within the Great Powers the contest coincided with the process of incorporating wider and wider sections of the population in the nation . |
| 3 | It simply is not true that ‘ within the Western countries the press has become more powerful than the legislative power , the executive and the judiciary ’ . |
| 4 | It may be assumed that within the three miles the territorial sovereignty would be sufficient to cover any such legislation as the present . |
| 5 | Even within the positive results the details are often inconsistent . |
| 6 | Within the residential areas the habitat function must be improved without reducing the accessibility of destinations . |
| 7 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
| 8 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 9 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 10 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 11 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 12 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
| 13 | Within a few minutes the basket was more than half full of food , and Mary was pouring the soup into the thermos . |
| 14 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 15 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 16 | Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal , and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle 's cabin door . |
| 17 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 18 | Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience . |
| 19 | Within a few years the William Tyndale School returned to normal , and it is now a popular and flourishing institution . |
| 20 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 21 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |
| 22 | Within a few years the organisation was divided by decision of Annual Conference into seven districts , each covering between two and seven branches and each electing one representative to the Executive , except London , which was given two . |
| 23 | Within a few years the increased prosperity of the yard had so impressed John Shuttleworth that he turned the business over to him . |
| 24 | Within a few years the improved navigability of the river Don enabled them to compete even more successfully in distant markets . |
| 25 | This grant is subject to considerable change at present owing to alterations in the HEFCE funding arrangements for universities , but it is hoped that within a few years the total income will rise to new levels . |
| 26 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 27 | Within a few days the troubled Asylum Bill itself disappeared from the Lord 's timetable for the remainder of the current Parliament . |
| 28 | Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 29 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 30 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |