Example sentences of "a [n mass] of [noun] between the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 2 | Roger Frey , de Gaulle 's Minister of Information in January 1959 , argued : ‘ broadcasting is a means of communication between the state and public opinion ; it would be absurd for the government to give it to those who , via the press or otherwise , seek merely to criticize its actions ’ . |
| 3 | The People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent in 1967 as the People 's Republic of Southern Yemen , comprising Aden , which had been under British rule since 1839 , and the former Protectorate of South Arabia , which had been developed by a series of treaties between the United Kingdom and local leaders . |
| 4 | It is the outcome of a series of contracts between the founding shareholders : in so far as the state has a role in corporate creation it is not materially different from its role in enforcing contracts in general . |
| 5 | This material emerges from a series of meetings between the label/product manager , the artist and their management . |
| 6 | On Thursday there was a series of meetings between the leaders of the Government and the opposition parties , the General Council of the TUC and the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 7 | The deal , which was designed to reduce inflation , was the latest in a series of accords between the ALP government and the trade union movement . |
| 8 | A rapprochement in Russo Japanese relations was marked by a series of agreements between the two countries in 1907–16 covering the apportionment of rights and interests in the East Asian area . |
| 9 | He is a character easily overlooked by the reader of the text , for the bulk of the drama is conveyed in a series of dialogues between the other three characters , and attention is naturally attracted — or rather distracted — by the probability that this text is a script for a simple sort of play and thus very different from a straightforwardly narrative text . |
| 10 | Thus , in the Bank of England a series of clashes between the premier and the governor , Gordon Richardson , resulted in his replacement in 1983 by Robin Leigh-Pemberton , a banker of enterprise outlook and , politically , a known Conservative . |
| 11 | The pressure on local councils to obtain building land to cope with housing demand , and the force of demographic forecasts which by the end of the 1950s were being revised upwards , resulted in a series of dog-fights between the large urban authorities and the shire counties , in which the Ministry inevitably became involved . |