Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] between [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The politicians in Washington are there to fight for their state and the conflicts in Washington are not conflicts between , so much between the states and the federal government , as conflicts between the states for different advantages .
2 She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five .
3 ‘ Minders ’ in Nidri in high season look after children between the ages of 4–13 during the shore week for parents who have booked a yachting course , or six days sailing or windsurfing .
4 So we pray for peace between the factions in what used to be Yugoslavia .
5 The concept of incest has been the focus of much anthropological study , and by introducing this third variable Todd is able to identify seven family types , which are listed in table 3.1 Within families where the spouses are determined by custom there are two sub-types : in the endogamous community family , there is equality between brothers in matters of inheritance , married sons cohabit with their parents , and there is frequently marriage between the children of brothers ; whereas in asymmetrical community families the first two conditions also hold but marriages between the children of brothers are prohibited , although there may be a preference for marriage between the children of brothers and sisters .
6 MARINE Youth will be holding trials for youngsters between the ages of 15 and 17 , who have had experience at county level .
7 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 .
8 She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees .
9 In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones .
10 This does not mean merely showing that two parts of the descriptive apparatus march in step with one another ; the explanation here is a matter of showing that the facts in question are natural consequences of interaction between the meanings of the syntactic constructions as constructions , and the lexical meaning of the individual items that appear in them .
11 Rumours proliferated of disagreements between the leaders of the NKLP and SKLP and these were justified .
12 In a study in which children 's eye movements were recorded while they scanned an array and listened to messages to focus on items in the array ( Lloyd , 1983 ) , it was found that the number of shifts between the items in the referent array varied significantly as a function of message adequacy .
13 On Thursday there was a series of meetings between the leaders of the Government and the opposition parties , the General Council of the TUC and the National Executive of the Labour Party .
14 In the early days of its operation , it fell in terms of administration between the stools of Members ' Affairs and Education , and the respective roles of the Institution , the Branches , commercial operators and the public sector educational institutions were never made clear .
15 Mrs Connie Bunker of Hassex Road , Herspear Point wants to know , ‘ Are the health and social service provisions in different countries similar to those in Britain , and is there a move towards uniformity between the countries in the E E C ? ’
16 By the early 1960s , Khruschev wanted a division of labour between the members of Comecon .
17 In the light of these unities , it seems necessary to postulate a systematic set of relationships between the patterns of memory and the sense of ‘ 1 ’ , the qualitative interior of mental experience .
18 Early English home of the ancestors of George Washington , established in 1921 as a token of friendship between the peoples of the United States and Britain to whom the property belongs .
19 I think there 's a great deal of disparity between the countries of Western Europe erm in the way in which health and social security provisions are organized and erm provided .
20 This is a time of austerity , of playing with ration books , of knowing we are " overcrowded " , of squabbles between the women over doing the stairs and cleaning the toilet that are handed down to us children in the form of sectarian rivalries .
21 Also , men have no worries about pregnancy and single parenthood , they still seem to be blithe about AIDS , and have n't taken heed of the warning from One Plus One ( formerly the Marriage Research Council ) that men cast out of marriage between the ages of 25 and 50 are twice as likely to die prematurely and drink too much .
22 there is no reasonable possibility of reconciliation between the parties to the marriage , and
23 The distribution of work between the divisions of that court is only a matter of convenience ; the Queen 's Bench Division can never say ‘ here a matter of Equity is involved ; we can not decide it ’ , or the Chancery Division ‘ this is a question of Common Law ; you ought to have gone to a Common Law Court ’ .
24 It is an interval of peace between the irritations of home and the anxieties of work , a time of pure sensation , total control , effortless superiority .
25 There is a genuine difference of opinion between the experts on whether statementing , as it is now applied in sixth-form schools but not in further education colleges , is a desirable tool .
26 Mr can I just ask the erm about the I think it 's very that he 's produced this er so that we can look across and make sort of comparisons between the proposals of the groups .
27 The problem is , therefore , one of lack of confidence between the governments of the two states .
28 This is an area which is only susceptible to research via detailed investigation which , however it is carried out , certainly can not be in terms of the ‘ normality ’ of disabled people , since its concerns must be to explicate the kinds and degrees of difference between the needs of impaired people and the general population , and with the multifarious features of ‘ normal ’ social life which prevent disabled people from being ‘ normal ’ .
29 We need to make more progress in achieving a decade of retirement between the ages of sixty and seventy with men and women deciding for themselves when they want to retire .
30 Labour will develop a flexible decade of retirement between the ages of 60 and 70 , so that men and women can choose to retire on a full pension or continue in work without discrimination .
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