Example sentences of "[noun sg] between [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major issue in the decision between a generative and a probabilistic system is the robustness of the system . |
| 2 | Despite the political rhetoric of the modern welfare state , which has created popular images to the contrary , the reality is that the basic state retirement pension continues to provide an income between a third and a half of average earnings . |
| 3 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 4 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 5 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 6 | A change in the weight or fineness of a coinage can occasionally provide a link between an undated and a dated coin . |
| 7 | When Marx , he observes , was still in his teens , the battle between a capitalist and a socialist political economy for the minds of English trade unionists had been ( at least temporarily ) won . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |
| 10 | The smallest detail can often be the difference between a good and a bad picture . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The respondent 's contention is that there is a difference between a public and a private Act . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does ! |
| 16 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 17 | This illustrates another problem , that the only effective difference between an interactive and a redundant modular system is the degree of disruption produced by damage to a single component . |
| 18 | Oakeshott 's attack on rationalism , which incidentally included an attack on the doctrinal nature of Hayek 's The Road to Serfdom , is transformed by Hayek — who utilizes Popper 's distinction between a naive and a critical rationalism — into an attack on constructivist rationalism . |
| 19 | The statement called for a meeting between a Libyan and a United Kingdom delegate to discuss this issue . |
| 20 | In Umberto Eco 's novel , The Name of the Rose , the story of the conflict between a theological and a rational-scientific explanation of a series of murders in a monastery in the fourteenth century , Father Jorge , the self-appointed censor of heretical literature , preached that knowledge is not something to be furthered , only refined . |
| 21 | Though covenants were made between equals , the religious use of the term always referred to a relationship between a greater and a lesser partner . |
| 22 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ An alliance between the MDC and a private company would be an excellent example of partnership to create jobs and prosperity . |
| 24 | The lyrical content of the track refers to rumours concerning an affair between the Tory and a London caterer , which have been rife in media circles throughout the summer . |
| 25 | When they were given a choice between a familiar and a novel member of the opposite sex , birds might actually choose the familiar even when the novel really did not look so very different to our eyes ( Miller , 1979 ; Bateson , 1980 ; Slater & Clements , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | In Britain , unlike some European countries , there is no choice between a right-wing and a left-wing television news channel . |
| 27 | In this way the choice between a particular and a universal interpretation of the concept of social representation can involve more than a preference for one son of definition over another . |
| 28 | what has most carefully to be defined is the specific association of what are really quite unchanged class feelings — a persistent sense of a quite clear line between an upper and a lower class — with very strong and effective feelings of sympathy with the lower class as victims . |
| 29 | Hence we see a paradox between a loyal and a divided country , as the original author and I have shown . |
| 30 | The contrast at the Congress between a vulgar and a relatively sophisticated aesthetic as exemplified in the difference of emphasis between Zhdanov and Bukharin is interesting to the degree that it has reverberations in the work of Nizan . |