Example sentences of "between [pron] [coord] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's between them and the Swiss Banks . |
| 2 | Not only between himself and those in his charge , but as interpreter between them and the hearing world . |
| 3 | There were a dozen fine estates between them and the distant skyline . |
| 4 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 5 | The peace with Scotland brought opposition to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella into the open , and , perhaps more significantly , marked the beginning of a breach , not as yet overt , between them and the young king , who was now sixteen years old . |
| 6 | Grant , satisfied that the wide expanse of lawn between them and the dark treeline remained comfortingly deserted , and no light showed in any of the blank windows of the house , slipped the coiled rope from his shoulder . |
| 7 | England — even in Paris — should win that one , which will leave Wales at Twickenham between them and the Grand Slam . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified . |
| 9 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 10 | As far as those who not only do this but also work exclusively for a single organization are concerned , it makes the distinction between them and the regular employees of that organization an unclear and almost unreal one . |
| 11 | Between them and the broad swipes of the sun |
| 12 | The Spanish Civil War was the result of the collapse of political and social coexistence among Spaniards ; and , in turn , fashioned subsequent political developments , inside each of the opposing war zones which emerged in the summer of 1936 , between them , and between them and the outside world . |
| 13 | The intention here was to test our theory by making things difficult for ourselves : it would have been much easier to select upper-middle class communities and to demonstrate gross differences between them and the inner city . |
| 14 | Using his superior strength , Rocky dragged and wrestled the struggling Larsen another twenty yards back , doubling the distance between them and the blazing building . |
| 15 | This would present no great difficulty if one were dealing with a single cell but real lumber contains many thousands and it is necessary to diffuse the water from the inner cells through the walls of most of the other cells which lie between them and the outer world . |
| 16 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 17 | They are often already experienced in the needs of those they are looking after , and a close relationship can build up between them and the whole family . |
| 18 | These sensible recommendations were also designed to harmonize relationships between institutions and their local authorities , in that the granting to institutions of considerably more discretion in the control and allocation of resources would help to avoid the kind of disputes that had erupted between them and the local authorities in the past . |
| 19 | Later , both Dustin and Voight avowed they were rooting for Wayne , despite the wide political divergence between them and the older star . |
| 20 | Trent had already warned his charter party back to the catamaran , keeping himself between them and the big fish . |
| 21 | They cling to their gang-of-lads-from-Oldham identity like it 's the last line of defence between them and the unthinkable horror of an interview with Melvyn Bragg . |
| 22 | Only 4 points between them and the dreaded relegation zone . |
| 23 | There was the glance over the shoulder now and again to make sure they kept some distance between them and the white proletariat which erupted in new housing estates , bringing property values down . |
| 24 | The differences here between the first two teams are insignificant , but the difference between them and the third team is striking . |
| 25 | However , not all sections were ‘ incorporated ’ in this way : ‘ whilst the ‘ respectable ’ sections of the working class have increased in size , the gap between them and the dwindling lower-working class , including the sections who remain ‘ rough ’ , has widened' ( ibid.:237–8 ) . |
| 26 | In the first stage we build up a broad structured picture which identifies the main parties , the interactions between them and the main areas where their interests may conflict . |
| 27 | For that reality too may be reinterpreted philosophically as an illusion , a world of appearances , what Schopenhauer calls " the veil of maya " , interposed between ourselves and the ultimate reality — by which is meant the ground of being , the primordial oneness or unity of all individual things . |
| 28 | As he had become an English citizen and relations between ourselves and the Soviet Union were , when he died , a great deal pricklier than they are today , this caused considerable suspicion and distrust among the fiscal authorities of both countries . |
| 29 | For the horticultural work , links need to be established and maintained between ourselves and the major gardening programme makers , specialist gardening magazines , and the gardening correspondents of the major newspapers . |
| 30 | Shortage of newsprint was another link , and I was constantly in touch with Singapore , London and Calcutta about supplies , which when they came were divided as fairly as possible between ourselves and the independent newspapers . |