Example sentences of "[noun sg] between [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.

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1 There is no simple division between left and right , and little evidence to support the easy sneer that those supporting military action by a Democratic president would have opposed it by a Republican one : the Nation , the country 's leading magazine of the left , is dead against intervention .
2 The rumoured deal between NeXT and either Compaq or Dell that first broke last January ( UX No 368 ) has so far failed to materialise : observers claim it 's because Steve Jobs is demanding a big down payment from both firms even though he intends to shrinkwrap NeXTstep-on-Intel .
3 Next it cut the steep mountainside between Great and Little How Crags , where , at about the 2,100 ft. contour , the 17th Century miners had — by means of open-cut and tunnel — opened their Black Scar Workings .
4 The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year .
5 By 8am she 's in her office as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and with her secretary Pauline Jennings deals with her correspondence between 8 and 9am .
6 WREXHAM FC Junior Reds will hold a coaching session between 6 and 8pm on June 23 at the Racecourse for boys and girls aged five to 15 .
7 This apparent lack of interest in the difference between one and more than one is no more surprising than the lack of interest in duality in English and most European languages .
8 The difference between 1978 and now is that ambulance staff are not on strike but are working to rule , and answering all emergency calls .
9 As explained above , English recognizes a distinction between one and more than one ( singular and plural ) .
10 Case conferences should , as a matter of routine practice , make a much clearer distinction between more and less ‘ objective ’ evidence than they do at present .
11 A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes .
12 So why the holy alliance between left and right ?
13 A more serious objection to Anderson 's account is that it assumes consistentalignment between left and right in politics , and ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ traditional ’ in intellectual life .
14 Excavations , nine miles south-west of the city , have revealed the rich graves of a pagan Anglian cemetery in use between 550 and 630AD .
15 A layer of photosynthetic bacteria lives permanently on the boundary between brackish and highly saline water .
16 The Buccleuch Place service is closed on Wednesday lunchtime between 1 and 2pm .
17 Of course , in reality there is a continuum between these and more informal types of conflict .
18 The general procedure was for the editorial staff to work to a 1.30pm daily deadline , which could sometimes be stretched to 2pm so that the presses could roll anytime between 4 and 4.30pm .
19 It is , however , a worthwhile exercise to compare the Shipman 's Tale with these tales of Gower to see where Chaucer may have drawn the line between permissible and even useful scurrility in literature and unconscionable sin .
20 There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them .
21 The way in which culture is itself understood provides the key to grasping the extraordinary convergence between left and right , antiracist and avowedly racist over precisely what race and racism add up to .
22 A level of below 5.2 mmol/l is considered low risk Between 5.2 and around 6 is an intermediate zone which is fine provided the patient has no other risk factors Above 6 and the level is described as raised , regardless .
23 The movement recurrently exemplified conflict typical of the wider political culture between more and less ‘ open ’ styles .
24 Membership of the United Nations has more than quadrupled since 1945 , greatly complicating international negotiations , while a fundamental conflict of interest between developed and less developed states introduced a North-South dimension to global politics .
25 Later sophistications follow , such as balance between more and less essential events , between setting and events and , ultimately , the plotting of events to form some overall shape and to give a sense of resolution to the narrative .
26 Kampuchea had been known as the Kingdom of Cambodia prior to 1970 , as the Khmer Republic between 1970-75 and as Democratic Kampuchea from 1976-79 .
27 Opinion polls predict that the Green alliance could win at least 15-17 per cent of the vote in the elections ; an 18 per cent share would give it a chance of holding the balance of power between left and right in the national assembly .
28 I have realised an equilibrium between Left and Right by being an anarchist . ’
29 It is consequently difficult to describe in a brief space , and the following account attempts only to indicate some basic features of government finance between 1471 and about 1534 .
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