Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] between the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look also for R Centauri , a red Mira-type variable more or less between the Pointers . |
| 2 | The front pair point slightly forward from the forehead and are positioned more or less between the eyes . |
| 3 | It is as well that there is an interval of twenty-five years or so between the baking of these pies — I imagine it will take the Denby Dalers this amount of time to recover . |
| 4 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 5 | There was probably a space eighteen inches deep or more between the roof of the car and that of the tunnel . |
| 6 | In the Commission 's view , this is best done either antiphonally , between two sides of a congregation , or responsorially between the leader and the people . |
| 7 | This is not usually the case in a surveying practice , where the preoccupation is more with technical and professional aspects while matters such as profitability are often only discussed in hushed tones or privately between the partners . |
| 8 | It was an essential part of the peace settlement package but has a wider significance than just between the parties . |
| 9 | The analogy has been drawn more than once between the hacker and the dedicated musician . |
| 10 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 11 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 12 | It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters . |
| 13 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 14 | The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses . |
| 15 | Ryan was jumping to and fro between the room from which the ladder was to be launched and the corridor . |
| 16 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 17 | A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations . |
| 18 | In story after story people ( or aliens ) have simply switched on the antigravity drive in order to be able to travel cheaply and effortlessly between the stars . |
| 19 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |
| 20 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 21 | Indeed , as we shall see below , many of its key protagonists ( such as Poulantzas and Therborn ) also switch back and forth between the arbiter model and functionalist arguments . |
| 22 | This shuttling back and forth between the personae could only be done so adroitly by a poet exceptionally sensitive to the status and function of pronouns . |
| 23 | Answer : a notched wooden roller that is turned gently back and forth between the palms and fingers for a couple of minutes a day . |
| 24 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 25 | The dogs , too , were focused on the water , poised on the edge of the bank , barking and snarling , or pacing back and forth between the men 's legs , whining with impatience . |
| 26 | The reception office has the responsibility of maintaining the communication services between the guest and the hotel and internally between the departments within the hotel . |
| 27 | To do this , mark the top of the saddle , between the B and G strings and also between the A and D strings . |
| 28 | We need to distinguish between different media sources ‘ and also between the media 's ability to inform and its ability to persuade . |
| 29 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 30 | He ran hither and thither between the shelves of Eng . |