Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] between " in BNC.

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1 They are based on an assessment of relationships between different parts of the state apparatus .
2 This primarily Marxist ideology argues that there is an inequality of power between the controllers of economic resources ( ie. shareholders , managers etc ) and those who depend on access to those resources ( ie. wage earners ) .
3 The telephone as an instrument of communication between people is being used more and more .
4 Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended .
5 President Lech Walesa was said to have been astonished and upset by Kolodziejczyk 's retirement which was seen by observers as an indication of tension between Olszewski and Walesa , who had initially opposed the formation of the Olszewski government .
6 Lines linking two individuals represent an indication of association between them , but the nature of the relationships vary .
7 Polysemy again operates as an agent of transition between contexts in the following sentence in which a customs declaration becomes a declaration of love :
8 In practice , the sole result was an outbreak of fisticuffs between the UDA and UVF prisoners in Long Kesh prison .
9 They approved an act of union between the Churches , acknowledging the primacy of the popes .
10 The objectives of these committees are to facilitate an exchange of views between the police and the wider community on issues of local concern ; to help resolve conflict between the police and dissenting sections of the community ; to encourage self-help and crime prevention activities ; and to educate or inform the public regarding everyday police matters ( Morgan , 1989 ) .
11 Carmella had not acknowledged her as she took her place , but an exchange of looks between Denis and his two younger brothers indicated that Noreen was going to be there no matter what .
12 This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage !
13 An Iraqi seaman was apparently killed in the northern part of the Gulf on Oct. 25 in an exchange of gunfire between an Iraqi tug-boat and two Iranian gunboats .
14 Geoffrey Marshall , commenting on the bureaucracy of the system says that " it comes to a climax with an exchange of reports between practically all parties capable of exchanging them . "
15 Details of Lord Young 's involvement emerge in an exchange of letters between him and Professor Smith on July 12 , 1988 — two days before he made his announcement to the House of Lords of the Rover sale .
16 This hare has been aroused by an exchange of letters between Donald Riegle , chairman of the Senate banking committee , and the SEC 's ambitious chairman , Richard Breeden .
17 Eupolemus , who was Judas Maccabaeus ' envoy to Rome in 161 B.C. , composed a work in which one could read an exchange of letters between the twelve-year-old Solomon and his client kings Vaphres of Egypt and Suron of Tyre ( Eusebius , Praep .
18 Appendices A and B will be kept up-to-date regularly by an exchange of letters between the Secretariat of ABI with various other parties to the Agreement .
19 The Security Council debate had been preceded by a series of statements by and an exchange of letters between de Klerk and Mandela in which each stated their terms for the resumption of constitutional talks .
20 Heterosexuality , once it is exposed as an exchange of women between men , reveals itself as a mediated form of homosexuality .
21 An exchange of ideas between the academic and business communities is encouraged by inviting senior managers to discuss the applicability and limitations of the concepts introduced in the courses .
22 A random example of this process can be seen in two lines from Wordsworth 's ‘ Intimations of Immortality ’ : Here the verse structure , especially the rhyme , together with the syntactic parallelism and the inverted semantic parallelism ( visionary gleam/glory … dream ) , creates an exchange of effect between the two lines , whereby each illuminates the other .
23 Our bodies and the world bump into one another and there is an exchange of energy between them .
24 The ambush had taken place in the southern front area , where an exchange of fire between the two sides to the conflict took place on March 13 , with each country accusing the other of opening fire .
25 So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority .
26 There has consequently developed ‘ an alienation of affections between fan and athlete ’ .
27 It is an interval of peace between the irritations of home and the anxieties of work , a time of pure sensation , total control , effortless superiority .
28 The prosecution should try to prove an interval of time between forming the intention and using the article to injure when the third category of ‘ intended ’ is used ( Ohlson v Hylton [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 490 ) .
29 In an agony of choice between human and ideal love Kallikrates tries to kill himself : he refuses to enter the fire in which Ayesha has already achieved immortality and the force of her spiritual power kills him .
30 Thru subverts the literary theory which has as its premise that every narrative contains a meaning and that this meaning can be accounted for in terms of a universal ‘ elementary structure of signification ’ which posits woman as an object of exchange between men .
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