Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] between [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor and Bernice were stumbling between the mushrooms of twisted metal , with the Doctor talking nineteen to the dozen and gesturing wildly with his still furled umbrella . |
| 2 | 267 , which came to the Privy Council just before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created , provides a valuable illustration of the fact that in the absence of such arrangements as were made between the Inns of Court and the judges in this country , the power to judges to determine who were fit and proper persons to practise before them , where it existed , was regarded as essential for the due administration of justice . |
| 3 | The 16 members of ECOWAS were divided between the supporters of the various factions in the conflict and on the presence of ECOMOG . |
| 4 | In reality the system was caught between the stringencies of the Civil War and the burgeoning petty corruption of NEP . |
| 5 | A high bank with a ditch on one side , it was built between the estuaries of the Dee and Severn in the late eighth century by Offa , king of Mercia , not as a defence against the Welsh but to control trade across the border . |
| 6 | A slim fair-haired girl in a long black dress was threading between the ranks of spectators , holding open a bag into which people dropped folded-up pieces of paper . |
| 7 | In a recent report no difference was found between the effects of perindopril and nifedipine on patients ' microalbuminuria and blood pressure over one year . |
| 8 | No significant difference was found between the rates of metabolism of butyrate or of glutamine by ileal biopsy specimens taken from UC patients compared with controls , and the ratios of butyrate/glutamine metabolism did not differ between UC patients and controls ( Figs 7 , 8 , and 9 ) . |
| 9 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 10 | The grain was ground between the faces of the stones which came to be grooved to give a better cutting action , and the ground meal was distributed to the outside edge of the stones for collection . |
| 11 | Responsibility for these plans was divided between the tiers of local government after reorganization so that counties , metropolitan counties and the Scottish regions were responsible for the structure plans , which were understood , at first at least , to be of strategic importance , providing the framework within which local plans might be prepared by district councils . |