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

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1 By October the Communist attitude had softened in the light of the pact of Unity between the Socialists and Communists in France .
2 I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers .
3 In rejecting Descartes 's theological argument for a physical principle , he did , however , extend the process of differentiation between the provinces of science and religion .
4 An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority .
5 The effect was to make it difficult for children to contribute to their own support , let alone the support of other people , thus removing the reciprocal nature of support between the young and their parents ' generation , and establishing childhood and youth as a period of one-way dependence of the young on their parents ( Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Anderson , 1980 ; Gittins , 1986 ) .
6 Given the difference in the spread of support between the parties , it is possible for one party to get more votes than its opponent party but receive fewer seats .
7 The fundholding practices had higher rates of cross boundary referrals than the control practices before the reforms ; however , there was little evidence of change between the two study periods in either group .
8 For the NIPPV group there was a rise in pH , compared with a fall in the controls ( mean difference of change between the groups 0.046 [ 95% CI 0.06–0.02 , p < 0.001 ] ) , and a larger fall in PaCO 2 ( mean difference in change between the groups 1.2 kPa [ 95% CI 0.45 to 2.03 , p < 0.01 ] ) .
9 She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees .
10 At a meeting in Paris on Feb. 27-28 UNESCO had given encouragement to the exchange of expertise between the Western news media and the media in Eastern Europe .
11 In women this panel of antibodies ( without PSA ) gave a level of discrimination between the common groups of tumours of 58% ( table III ) .
12 For example , they may coexist in a " stable diglossia " ( Ferguson 1959 ) — with a strict differentiation of function between the " high " and " low " languages , or one may decline steadily at the expense of the other .
13 In a clever piece of bridgework between the two , the poet is interrupted by an old friend who comes knocking at the door and calling his name .
14 The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels .
15 He said the current charter still gives no clear division of responsibility between the Community and the member states .
16 Agency definitions of abuse and what behaviours constitute abuse must maintain the balance of responsibility between the abuser and abused .
17 Thus the changing nature of physics can be attributed to the changing states , or to changing observables , or to some mixture of responsibility between the two of them .
18 Among the foremost issued to be addressed is whether the current division of responsibility between the Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , each with other responsibilities , including in MAFF 's case , responsibility for producers , is the most appropriate way of devising and implementing a national food policy .
19 a quality auditing system which will determine the balance of responsibility between the centre and SCOTVEC for the operation of the elements of the quality system .
20 The report highlights three issues : the amount of money to be transferred from the budget of the Department of Social Security ; the way in which housing benefit will be calculated after 1993 ; and the division of responsibility between the health authorities and the local social service departments .
21 The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement .
22 Implementation includes establishing a structure and a sharing of responsibility between the head , other senior members of staff and individual teachers who carry out the tasks involved in identifying staff development needs , with formulating a programme and with evaluating its implementation .
23 The labium is divided into two primary regions — a proximal postmentum and a distal prementum , the line of division between the two being the labial suture .
24 The failure of more talks , in London in December , on a German peace treaty meant that the line of division between the two blocs ran right through the centre of the defeated enemy of 1945 .
25 If James wrote a book , it would no doubt be a bestseller , which would make another point of contrast between the two of them .
26 The real cure for ‘ interference ’ according to Newmark is not drill at the points of contrast between the two languages Newmark and Riebei , 1968 ) .
27 This division reflects one of several points of contrast between the Siberian natives and those of northern North America .
28 In addition , MRI may show extension of the tumour through the chest wall which can not readily be seen on computed tomogram because of the lack of contrast between the tumour and chest wall muscles .
29 Below , the main points of contrast between the British and Spanish states are briefly sketched .
30 The famous University of Nalanda — ‘ the place that confers the lotus ’ ( or spiritual knowledge ) — which flourished near Patna in the State of Bihar between the fifth and twelfth centuries , was named after a Naga King .
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