Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are deposits of sterling held by overseas authorities as part of their official reserves and/or for purposes of intervening in the foreign exchange market in order to influence the exchange rate of their currency . |
| 2 | Resource allocation — between types of material and/or between subjects ( or departments ) — is a function of library policy , and has a profound effect upon collection development . |
| 3 | This was the long haired girls ' compromise but it became very common early 70s style for girls & for boys . |
| 4 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 5 | It supposedly has a ‘ real ’ remote procedure call system , ‘ much better than Open Network Computing RPC , ’ and can communicate within a machine or between machines . |
| 6 | With the widespread use of the telephone for both business and pleasure letter-writing is in danger of becoming a lost skill and probably the only letters which are kept in the home are those between sweethearts or between members of a united family . |
| 7 | On an application the court may decide any question relating to the title of any person who is a party to the application whether the question arises between members or alleged members , or between members or alleged members on the one hand and the company on the other hand , and may decide ‘ any question necessary or expedient to be decided for rectification … . ’ |
| 8 | In particular , it is usually not a good idea to expand the length of a sentence by inserting — as in the passage above — a long PARENTHETICAL ( i.e. a sentence in brackets or between dashes ) . |
| 9 | Given the common Caribbean background of family members it is noteworthy that Creole is not used as a common medium of interaction either within or between generations , at least when British-born speakers are present ; however , some speakers may use a mesolectal Creole most of the time without it apparently having or acquiring any special symbolic value . |
| 10 | There were no significant differences in hit rate between the three experience groups , F(2,33)=0.57 , or between males and females F(1,34)=0.06 . |
| 11 | Here the rhetorical approach is not drawing attention to arguments between cultures , or between ideologies , but the arguments which occur within cultures or ideologies . |
| 12 | Some thoughtful articles aim to make connections , perhaps across national and language frontiers , or between disciplines . |
| 13 | For example , the quality , repetition within or between tasks , working environment , relationship with other trades , and the method of execution of the work . |
| 14 | Studies based on states ‘ can not give us that understanding we seek of world society ’ either within or between states ( 1972 , pp.19 , 20 ) . |
| 15 | Data collected in budget preparation and monitoring are an invaluable input to a management information system which may be used to analyse trends within or between projects or perhaps between design groups in an engineering consultancy . |
| 16 | The regularity of your periods should not be affected , but some bleeding may occur after the fitting or between periods , especially at first . |
| 17 | These constructions are the stuff of James 's psychological elaboration , since he is concerned not so much with the relation between persons and persons , or between persons and things , as between persons and psychological states and events . |
| 18 | Sadly , this vulnerability may be used in power games between staff and residents in homes , or between residents . |
| 19 | most public co-operation is between men , and not between men and women , or between women ; |
| 20 | The implicit basis of child care practice up to that point was that no fundamental conflicts of interest between parents and children , or between families and the state , were at stake in such interventions . |
| 21 | However , most definitions of poverty are based in terms of relative deprivation ( ie deprivation relative to others in the community , rather than a comparison over time or between countries ) . |
| 22 | Narrative dance applies to those phrases of conversation between individuals or between dancers and public , where the dancer uses explicit gestures . |
| 23 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 24 | The offences may occur within the family or between acquaintances and to report them may be socially disruptive . |
| 25 | Such arrangements tend to be made at board or director level and are usually entered into when there is a financial link between the companies , such as companies within the same group of companies ( sometimes referred to as intergroup trading ) or between companies whose directors simply want to formalise an arrangement to purchase as much of each other 's products as possible . |
| 26 | Wheeziness worse ( < ) 3–5 am , better ( > ) leaning forward or by rocking , like Arsenicum ; with rattling in the chest , rattling cough and stitches in the chest with respiration , like Bryonia , or between breaths . |
| 27 | It was nonchalant in its dealings with other cats , disdainfully ignoring the usual status battles , which were nearly always between males or between females — there was little social fighting across the genders . |
| 28 | So taboos may exist which prohibit social intercourse between a man and a young girl having her first menstruation , or between females and a young male who has just reached puberty , because there is strong unconscious , or even conscious , desire to have sexual relations with the girls or boys ( incest ) . |
| 29 | Yet we often find that in such societies the arrangement of highly unorthodox marriage alliances between " wrongly related " kinsmen or between non-kinsmen is an essential part of the fabric of small-scale politics through which men of influence build up their power . |
| 30 | The death instincts provide the negative energy which is used in destructive aggression between human beings , either between individuals or between groups and nations . |