Example sentences of "the [noun sg] between [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intimacy between couples who take an interest in each other is an essential ingredient of a lasting marriage . |
| 2 | RELATIONS off the park between Rangers and their European Championship League rivals , Marseille , have deteriorated amid reports from Ibrox that the French side reneged on an agreement over tickets for the tie on 7 April that will decide which club goes forward to the European Cup final . |
| 3 | She argues that the attachment between individuals — the relationship — resides in an inner structure which has both cognitive and affective aspects and affects behaviour . |
| 4 | Widows and the long-term sick , for example , have suffered big losses in the breaking of the link between benefits and earnings from 1980 onwards . |
| 5 | Ada Nield Chew , a working class mother , feminist and labour movement activist , was scornful in her assessment of the debate over the link between women 's employment and infant mortality . |
| 6 | Community Health Councils will remain as the link between authorities and the consumer , and the working papers mention consulting consumers in audit of services . |
| 7 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 8 | The link between emissions of sulphur and nitrogen in industrial countries , its upwards transmission over great distances by the weather , and the consequent acidification of lakes and rivers , had first been made by a Swede , Svante Oden , in 1968 . |
| 9 | The link between badgers and tuberculosis in cattle has been a source of much conflict between farmers and badger protection groups . |
| 10 | ‘ Of even greater importance is the need to restore the link between earnings and pensions . |
| 11 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |
| 12 | The link between constructs 4 and 5 shows how an attribute such as the sense of stillness evokes an association with feelings of civilization in this particular picture . |
| 13 | Become aware of your body , of your breathing pattern and of the link between feelings of physical and mental well-being . |
| 14 | Our discussion of macroeconomic management emphasizes that the link between instruments and objectives is by no means direct or precise . |
| 15 | This is for the future but we propose to move quickly to integrate income tax and National Insurance into Broad Income Tax : treat all savings equally with regard to tax liability ; pay all pensioners a decent level of pension adequate for subsistence , restoring the link between pensions and earnings ; increasing child benefit and indexing it in future years . |
| 16 | They too , spoke enthusiastically about , for example , the opportunities offered by The Machine Gunners for emotional empathy with the world of the child versus the world of the adult ; the emotional pleasure pupils frequently found in empathizing with Billy 's relationship with the hawk , and the themes and topics raised by Kes ; the complex nature of the link between humans and animals offered as a theme in The Red Pony ; the thematic possibilities of the Irish location of Across the Barricades together with its handling of prejudice ; and the understanding of allegory and its special features which might be well illustrated by a reading of Animal Farm . |
| 17 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 18 | After the first year 's extra increases we will restore the link between increases in the basic pension and prices or earnings , whichever is higher . |
| 19 | The link between cowries and eyes is documented by archaeology as well as ethnology . |
| 20 | Stronger evidence provided by in vitro studies has confirmed the link between vitamins A , E , C , and Β -carotene and colonic cancer . |
| 21 | He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within . |
| 22 | The magnitude of the link between events and depression has been estimated in various ways . |
| 23 | However , there has been considerable controversy over the meaning of the link between events and depression — whether in fact the existence of a psychosocial stressor makes a depressive response so understandable that it should not be considered a disease . |
| 24 | Equally wide , of course , is the variety between companies . |
| 25 | Where villages contain more than one pub these , too , usually reflect the split between locals and newcomers , or , in the case of villages with only one pub , the bars may be socially divided — the locals to the public bar , the newcomers to the lounge , often ‘ modernized ’ in rustic mode for this purpose . |
| 26 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 27 | Like the differences discussed earlier in this chapter , the split between holists and individualists over what is to be accepted as given runs extremely deep , and can not readily be resolved on its own . |
| 28 | Naoroji was president of the twenty-second session of the Indian National Congress in 1906 when he tried , without great success , to heal the split between extremists and moderates . |
| 29 | If it were to become an actual consistent condition , the very purpose of life itself ( which is growth towards perfection through the struggle between opposites or growth towards total ‘ order ’ ) would be cancelled out and the evolutionary process would cease to be of significance . |
| 30 | Well before the events of 1987 , changes had occurred in the way in which the struggle between tankers and their assailants was conducted . |