Example sentences of "between [pron] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first sound is initial , the last the final : anything between them is medial . |
| 2 | But the competition which has always existed between them is undeniable . |
| 3 | Indeed , although Hegel does not admit quite what I am now suggesting , he effectively concedes that , given the difference between the sexes , unity between them is impossible . |
| 4 | It is now a caring and loving one , in which they both feel free to be themselves , and the trust between them is absolute . |
| 5 | If both husband and wife are domiciled in the United Kingdom , any transfer of assets between them is exempt from any charge to inheritance tax ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s18(1) formerly the Capital Transfer Tax Act 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Being without these tensions , pentatonic tones are therefore more bland , movement between them is free , and there is not such a strong feeling of the need for resolution as in the diatonic system . |
| 7 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 8 | Much more is said about ‘ substances ’ and ‘ modes ’ , and the distinction between them is important in Locke ‘ s theory of knowledge . |
| 9 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 10 | The relationship between them is problematic . |
| 11 | Yet since this book abounds in generalisations I shall retain both the simple distinction between official and actual curriculum and the simple argument that the differences between them are wide and disturbing . |
| 12 | A diatonic-scale glissando goes very well with a chromatic scale on the wind , no discrepancy between them being discernible to the ear . |
| 13 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 14 | They left in the utility a short time after darkness had fallen , and although little was said as they drove along the narrow , rough country road , Lucy felt that the silences between them were companionable . |
| 15 | The British official said the Prime Minister , John Major , had spoken by telephone to Mr Kohl before the chancellor 's trip to India and relations between them were good . |
| 16 | The alleys between them were dark and damp , rich with the smell of onions hung from the eaves . |
| 17 | It does not follow , however , that the division between Catholic and Reformed societies and the antagonism between them were irrelevant to the fortunes of the Copernican system . |
| 18 | Er would the factories between them be able to help with that for a spell Er one of the things that I 'm slightly concerned about is if you 've only got old buffers on the stand erm rather than younger people |
| 19 | Julia , delighted to see that the affection between them was solid enough to allow such teasing , said , as though she were considering some knotty legal problem : |
| 20 | The gulf which had opened up between them was apparent from the weights for the Gallaher Gold Cup : Arkle was set to carry twelve stone seven pounds , Mill House eleven stone five pounds , a difference of sixteen pounds . |
| 21 | Cooperation between them was possible and necessary , but it was implicit that each would use the other to further his own ends . |
| 22 | Maybe her request sounded foolish , but the prospect of facing Robert after everything that had happened between them was disturbing . |
| 23 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 24 | The street between them was empty , but the assassin spoke across it as if across a raging river . |
| 25 | The hunger erupting between them was raw . |
| 26 | She was sharp-eyed and even sharper of tongue , but the bond of affection between them was unbreakable . |
| 27 | These thoughts were coloured by the depressing realization that a meeting between them was inevitable . |
| 28 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 29 | She felt that everything between them was clear now , so that speech was like dropping pebbles into clear water and watching them sink to their resting place . |
| 30 | An affair between them was unlikely because , in homosexual jargon , they were ‘ bread and bread ’ . |