Example sentences of "[be] caught between " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a decade , Sri Lanka has been caught between this ambition and the demand for decentralisation that springs from the country 's ethnic troubles . |
| 2 | She had been caught between relief and disappointment in that moment , but one of the waitresses had materialised at her side to ask a question , and for the rest of the evening she had been too busy to spare more than a passing occasional thought for the man with the still dark eyes . |
| 3 | Split lips occur when they are caught between your fitted gumshield and the incoming kick . |
| 4 | There are instances where individuals are caught between their conscience and the corporate policy , and occasionally between their conscience and their jobs . |
| 5 | Another worker said it was too early to say whether industrial action was likely , but added : ‘ My own feeling is that we are caught between a rock and a hard place . ’ |
| 6 | " I can not accept lectures , " he told his guests , " because the people who pay for them expect me to attend cocktail parties at which I am caught between someone wanting to know what I think of existentialism and someone asking me what I really meant by such-and-such a line " . |
| 7 | It would then be up to the US and Canada to decide whether they want to face towards the Atlantic or Pacific — or be caught between two great trading oceans . |
| 8 | To be in doubt is to be in two minds , to be caught between two worlds , to be suspended between a desire to affirm and a desire to negate . |
| 9 | But it is rather Sartre 's own text that seems to be caught between these two dialectical possibilities of expansion and compression in a double logic . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm caught between a pig and a poke , blast it . |
| 11 | They tell of how the Israelites were caught between the Reed Sea and the pursuing Egyptian army , and how God drove the Egyptians into the sea to drown , while leading his people across to safety . |
| 12 | In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes . |
| 13 | When they were thirty yards off , Campana gave the order to fix bayonets , but just at that moment the Germans were caught between salvoes of short-falling 75s and the French rifle fire . |
| 14 | But it also describes the experience of being caught between the imagined world of art and the everyday world of loss , pain and survival . |
| 15 | We had come to know what to expect : worries about keeping control , not being liked , being judged and evaluated , feeling lonely in the staffroom , being caught between the conflicting advice of Institute and school tutors . |
| 16 | In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged . |
| 17 | The slight bleeding from the mouth is caused by the tongue being caught between the teeth . |
| 18 | In ‘ Mira 's Picture ’ she is caught between classes and between standards of value : both Corydon and Phillario judge her to be worthless . |
| 19 | So he is caught between the two of them , embarrassed to welcome his guest and unable to say more on the phone . |
| 20 | Mr Adams is caught between a rock and a hard place . |
| 21 | Jespersen is caught between his fantasies ( soft-spoken , retiring child-women ) and his prejudices ( loquacious yet bird-brained women ) to produce a stereotype that is both old ( think of Shakespeare 's comment that a low voice is an excellent thing in woman ) and yet contemporary . |
| 22 | It is caught between a variable analysis of how a female subject , ‘ woman ’ , is socially and historically constructed , and a politically necessary focus on the general , permanent characteristics of this subject . |
| 23 | It is caught between the demands of bureaucratic professionalism and the emotive pull of ethnic identification . |
| 24 | Music is caught between these two tendencies , and good music embodies both in a satisfying unity , at once affirming the objective movement of bourgeois society and also negating this through subjective critique . |
| 25 | In reality the system was caught between the stringencies of the Civil War and the burgeoning petty corruption of NEP . |
| 26 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 27 | She could feel them hardening under his tongue and was caught between pure ecstasy and an urge to run from the room . |
| 28 | But Alix and Brian had found one another , and so had Otto and Caroline Werner : Esther was caught between lofty Edgar and little Pete Petrie , herself the smallest of all . |
| 29 | Its successor , the conservative Regency of Five ( presided over by the Bishop of Orense , later to gain notoriety by his public denunciation of the doctrine of national sovereignty ) was caught between , on the one side , the urban democracy of Cadiz , where a ‘ Junta of merchants ’ , elected by a ballot of householders , had assumed the airs of a sovereign body and , on the other , the antiquated obstructionism of the Councils . |
| 30 | And she was caught between them . |