Example sentences of "place between the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever the circumstances an open and frank discussion must take place between the new employee and her manager at the earliest opportunity .
2 The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football .
3 In his haste to be gone on his mysteriously urgent errand , only the briefest of exchanges had taken place between the dark Maltese and her friends , while she was being returned like a sack of damp laundry to its rightful owners …
4 In the early period , the designation ‘ middle ’ marked out an intermediate place between the industrial proletariat and servant classes on the one hand , and the landed and financial aristocracy on the other — a place occupied not only by the rising industrial and commercial bourgeoisie , but also by the traditional professions and the civil servants , clerks and school teachers .
5 Yet since the late 1950s extensive progress on the negotiation of general clauses on working conditions has taken place between the central employers ' organisations and large trade union confederations , along with government participation , on an economy-wide basis .
6 Consultations took place between the Central Electricity Generating Board , the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the South Yorkshire County Council and the proposed scheme for a lake was given the go-ahead .
7 Particularly dramatic was the reduction in growth rate which took place between the mid 1960s , when the annual increase reached almost 400,000 , and the five years Figure 4.1 Population change and its components , UK , 1960–87 .
8 Meetings shall take place between the responsible ministers of the two states as necessary on topics of mutual interest …
9 In many cases imports and exports take place between the different branches of international firms ; they occur within firms rather than between them .
10 Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision .
11 At the time of going to press , behind-the-scenes negotiations were taking place between the National Gallery and the Marquess of Cholmondeley in the hope that a last-ditch solution could be found .
12 Extensive correspondence took place between the National Council and the colleges , as well as with the local authorities and the Secretary of State .
13 West of Turnham Green considerable residential development had already taken place between the High Road and Wellesley Road , including Chiswick Road , Marlborough Road , Grosvenor Road , Heathfield Gardens and Arlington Park Gardens North and South — the latter being renamed later Walpole Gardens , and the former shortened to Arlington Gardens .
14 Mike Benton in his article on the rhynchosaurs ( 7 April , p 9 ) suggests that the so-called battle for survival really took place between the food-source plants and not between the animals themselves .
15 At the outbreak of World War I , both informed and common opinion held that a major , probably decisive , naval action would soon take place between the British and German fleets .
16 The real work of the Assembly started with its second meeting on 15 October but before that much negotiation took place between the British and Irish governments and representatives of political parties in Northern Ireland .
17 An immersion heater timer is wired in place between the double-pole switch and the immersion heater
18 There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang .
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