Example sentences of "a [noun] between the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 2 | How hard do you think it would be to plug a cable between the Spectrum 's edge connector and an identical connector on the tablet ? |
| 3 | This therefore suggests a unity between the fundamentals of the existing structure of company law and the interests of society , as they have been provisionally defined . |
| 4 | The silicone rubber will fill up the gaps , creating a cushion between the saddle and the pickups and helping to even out the response — at the expense of a slight reduction in overall output . |
| 5 | The position of the DBMS , acting as a cushion between the logical views of the data structure and the physical schema , is shown in Figure 4.1 . |
| 6 | Some think nothing of virtually waving the keys to a room at the homeless , forcing a decision between the freezing streets , with your dog , or the cosy indoors — by yourself . |
| 7 | With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism . |
| 8 | However , Baxter 's influence was a major factor contributing to a split between the Presbyterians and Independents towards the end of the 17th . |
| 9 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 10 | As the French Ambassador in Japan had signed a written agreement guaranteeing their return this has caused considerable embarrassment and a split between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chancellory ( who are backing the judge ) . |
| 11 | They gave a shape to local government , with a split between the highly urbanized areas and the rest of the country , that dominates local politics to this day . |
| 12 | Amid growing reports of a split between the army and the government over Gulf war policy , Sharif declared on Feb. 9 that his government would not change its stance . |
| 13 | He warned of the dangers of a split between the Czech and Slovak republics unless a federal structure governing the relationship between the two republics could be agreed . |
| 14 | The conference was marked by a split between the USA , Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia on the one hand , who resisted the imposition of specific emissions cuts , and the remaining Western countries , including Europe , Japan and Australia , on the other , who argued for the adoption of a freeze on C02 emissions at present levels by the year 2000 . |
| 15 | In the more elementary systems that we are now considering , kinship , of a general sort , is assumed to be all-pervading but there is again a discrimination between the insiders and the outsiders , we " and they " . |
| 16 | There is therefore inevitably a friction between the rigid pacta tertiis rule and the progressive development of normative standards . |
| 17 | What was depicted as a struggle between a national proletariat and peasantry , and a national bourgeoisie , was in fact a struggle between the Russian Bolsheviks on the one hand , and Russian and foreign anti-Bolsheviks on the other hand , for the controlling influence over the territory concerned . |
| 18 | In the towns , the main struggle for the economic model comes to an end with the victory of the proletariat ; in the country … it is resurrected in other forms as a struggle between the state planning of a proletariat which embodies socialised labour and the commodity anarchy , the speculative licence of a peasantry which embodies scattered property and the anarchic element of the market … a simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy … |
| 19 | With such ambiguous structures , characterising any debate on how to improve them as a struggle between the principles of self-regulation and statutory regulation is unlikely to add to anybody 's understanding of the issues . |
| 20 | ‘ … This form of selection depends , not on a struggle for existence in relation to other organic beings or to external conditions , but on a struggle between the individuals of one sex , generally the males , for the possession of the other sex . |
| 21 | Many perceived the affair as a struggle between the competing claims of parents and teachers over the education of the child . |
| 22 | It was much harder to imagine Pascoe taking gloves and a knife with him when he went to MacQuillan 's office and creeping up behind him , and there was no evidence of a struggle between the dead man and his attacker which would have been the case if the killer had not approached from behind . |
| 23 | He saw it as a struggle between the desires of the bourgeoisie , for whom sports were ‘ mere entertainment ’ and for whom play was merely a recuperative process following the real work of labour , and , the desires of the common people for whom games were ‘ an alternative life-activity in their own right ’ . |
| 24 | Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night . |
| 25 | The new right 's success in charting a course between the old-school neo-fascists and the CDU/CSU failed to eliminate the array of openly radical factions from the right-wing scene . |
| 26 | There is a lacuna between the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the Vienna Convention on International Organisations . |
| 27 | the procedure refAndWgt is then called to save a set of ‘ good ’ measurements of the reference card — to be used later to check consistency — and also to compute a weighting between the top and bottom of the image . |
| 28 | refAndWeights — Saves a set of ‘ good ’ measures for use as a consistency check on each measurement and computes a weighting between the top and bottom halves of the image . |
| 29 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 30 | At Yale , under a contract between the University and the Office of Scientific Research and Development , Goodman and Gilman supplemented our understanding of mustard gas by exploring the properties of the nitrogen mustards . |