Example sentences of "difference between [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is also the question of height : getting some height into a room can make all the difference between a monotonous and an interesting space .
2 The difference between a Basque and a Catalan nationalist politician , it is said , is that the Catalan hopes to be prime minister of Spain but the Basque dreams of becoming the leader of an independent state .
3 I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’
4 The smallest detail can often be the difference between a good and a bad picture .
5 ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound .
6 By imagining these two kinds of plant , we have zeroed in on the crucial difference between a bottlenecked and an unbottlenecked life cycle .
7 But a lot of our client 's finance sections , do n't see the difference between a big and a little job they see some pigeon holes in their spreadsheet and they want to put something in there .
8 The respondent 's contention is that there is a difference between a public and a private Act .
9 But they also know , through recent , extensive and bitter experience , the difference between a sane and an insane workload , or rate of change .
10 Raising his eyes from his mutton , the owner may see inscribed upon his own horizon the acceptable difference between the rich and the poor .
11 He also presents us with a fairly strict unilineal theory of evolution , ( if we forget about the difference between the New and the Old Worlds ) .
12 In fact , there is n't a great deal of difference between the two and the one merges into the other .
13 The distinction between our dependent conditionals and others is thus not a difference between the indicative and the subjunctive mood .
14 It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other .
15 The difference between the normal and the schizophrenic is , then , solely a matter of degree , depending upon the extent to which the products of autism become fixed in place or , alternatively , remain under rational control .
16 Not so ! asserts our poet — there is no difference between the sacred and the secular , prayer or work ( which have the same root in Hebrew ) ; ‘ oneness ’ will out !
17 The main difference between the integrated and the marginal man is not qualitative but a quantitative difference in the structure of occupational , educational and housing opportunities .
18 The difference between the young and the adult worker reflects their different positions on the trajectories of ( common ) social career paths .
19 In our inflation-unemployment example , this criterion of rationality requires that the mean value of v t — the difference between the actual and the expected rates of inflation — should equal zero .
20 How can the difference between the possible and the affordable in health care be resolved , as medical advance continues to widen the gap ?
21 This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second .
22 Overall , there remained a roughly constant difference between the interested and the uninterested .
23 The difference between the trained and the naïve rats is that the former have been electrically shocked , and therefore certainly stressed or pained , when attempting to enter the dark box .
24 Another way of clarifying the difference between the creative and the religious , in this context , might be to use those well-worn terms , ‘ active ’ and ‘ passive ’ .
25 As such , temperance became a significant symbolic difference between the old and the new :
26 A point of difference between the 1984 and the 1957 Acts is that liability for loss or damage to the property of the non-visitor is not covered by the 1984 Act , whereas loss or damage to the property of a visitor is covered by the 1957 Act .
27 Maybe it also high-lighted the difference between the British and the American temperament , Tweed reflected .
28 It 's actually very easy to tell strings apart , though , just by squeezing the coil in your hand before you unwrap it ; the difference between an .009 and an .012 is pretty obvious .
29 Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’
30 Does everybody know the difference between an internal and an external ring ?
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