Example sentences of "[prep] be between " in BNC.

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1 This image of being between worlds — suspended between earth and sky — is apt for Cocteau , who was trained as an acrobat and whose imagination was fabulous and other-worldly .
2 The business of being between inexperienced girl and experienced woman and the awful problem of the man .
3 It held that God is the Creator ex nihilo thus implying a divide rather than a continuum of being between man 's soul and God .
4 After breaking the computer down into its hazardous and raw materials , ‘ the only thing we dispose of is between 3% and 5% of the computer 's total weight , ’ says founder and marketing director Peter Domini .
5 Right Doug erm there 's a couple of points there really erm like you , you got the , the , the guy and you said who else do you know why not paint a picture , you know , erm like for example Jim the people I do business with are between twenty five and thirty five , they 're usually married buying their own home
6 An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian .
7 Their whole game depends on getting the man on the ground out of the way , if necessary with the boot , if he is so unfortunate as to be between them and the ball .
8 Mr Holmes a Court has put in a formal offer for the magazine , believed to be between £2 and £3 million .
9 No complete census of dolphins has ever been carried out in India , although the total population is generally assumed to be between 4000 and 5000 .
10 ‘ We seem to be between Scylla and Charybdis , on this one . ’
11 To take part in the trial , you need to be between the 25th and 34th week of pregnancy and to have inverted or non-projectile nipples .
12 The choice presented to viewers tends to be between genres and subgenres rather than within them .
13 Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave .
14 The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played .
15 It is hard to know how to comport yourself on such an occasion , the choice appearing to be between solemnity and frivolousness , with nothing in between .
16 The worldwide yearly sulphur output is estimated to be between 50 and 75 million tonnes and is concentrated in the industrial regions .
17 Present day numbers are believed to be between 200 and 1,100 .
18 ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod .
19 That was how it was going to be between them , just as she made him sleep on the floor beside their honeymoon bed in the Ritz .
20 When taken together with walking , cycling is thought to be between ten and forty times as energy efficient , as motorised transport ( Figure 9.1 ) .
21 But the Crowther Committee and Consumers ' Association reported that where mail order prices could be compared directly with prices in the shops , they appeared to be between 5 and 15 per cent higher .
22 The key battle is likely to be between brilliant Torino player Enzo Scifo and Welsh skipper Barry Horne , who said : ‘ Schifo and Hagi of Romania are probably the best two midfield players in the world .
23 The race for the two promotion places in Division One appears to be between top three sides Sudbury Wanderers , Soham and Woodbridge , who were all victorious .
24 Early Minoan Phaistos , over one hectare in area , may have had a population of 300–450 , Early Minoan Mallia , with its area of 2.58 hectares , had a population of 700–1,000 , and Early Minoan Knossos was almost twice as big as Mallia , with a maximum extent of 4.84 hectares and a population estimated to be between 1,300 and 1,900 .
25 Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH says that it now expects its subscriber base to reach 200,000 next month , ahead of plan , but still expects the level to be between 300,000 and 350,000 by year-end ; it is still looking for profits in 1994-95 .
26 Brokers are already forecasting the 1993 pre-tax profits to be between £3.3m and £3.5m .
27 If any divide is to emerge , it is more likely to be between adult care and child care services .
28 The choice then appears to be between informalism , in which individualized solutions to disputes are worked out and accepted by the parties , and the formal judicial process .
29 On completion of this turn the Cherokee was north of the extended centreline and tracking towards the airfield at a height estimated to be between 100 and 300 feet .
30 Yet as far as discourse structure is concerned , a more fundamental distinction seems to be between formal , planned discourse , which may be either written or spoken , and less formal , unplanned discourse which — though it may also be either written or spoken — is usually associated with speech .
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