Example sentences of "[vb -s] an [adj] [noun] between " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think all we can say with any confidence is that the patterns of evolution and behaviour going on within it today indicate that it has an apparent beginning between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago . |
| 2 | In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death . |
| 3 | The suggestion that the planning system can ‘ integrate ’ economic and environmental objectives and ‘ weigh up ’ the importance of development against environmental quality perpetuates an unhelpful distinction between two apparently incompatible priorities . |
| 4 | African bridewealth " marriage " establishes an enduring relationship between the husband and his kin on the one side and the bride and her kin on the other . " |
| 5 | Each episode of Sean 's Show ( Wednesdays at 10.30pm , Channel 4 ) contains enough ideas to sustain an inferior sitcom through an entire series , and at its best the writing achieves an admirable marriage between poignant experience and a cartoon concept for expressing it humorously . |
| 6 | Suffused with a sense of history , precise yet pragmatic in mood , the book 's readability gains from its author 's gentle sense of irony , and exemplifies an Edwardian affinity between literature and ‘ social science ’ that has since been lost . |
| 7 | A report from Oxford in this issue confirms an inverse relation between glucose tolerance in later life and birth weight ( p 302 ) but was unable to account for the marked impairment of β cell function in the type II diabetic subjects by low birth weight alone . |
| 8 | The bank vole shows an interesting contrast between this trend and the opposite one during trapping that the likelihood of capture increases with age using live traps . |
| 9 | • In some children studied in a normal , rhythmic environment the sleep/wake rhythm shows an intermediate stage between a lack of rhythmicity and the presence of normal rhythms ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 10 | He has a flawless sense of colour and form , and realises an ideal balance between formal clipped structure and drifting floral ephemera , springing delicious surprises upon the enchanted visitor . |
| 11 | This elaboration indicates the process of social change , for it reveals an increasing separation between ‘ real polises ’ and a public who are much less likely now to accept police versions of reality ; while increasing ‘ civilianization ’ within the forces presents another perceived challenge to the defensive integrity and introspection of the institution . |
| 12 | Devised by Peter Thorogood , who reveals an interesting link between St Mary 's House at Bramber and The Importance of Being Earnest . |
| 13 | In this paper , we show that there exists an inverse correlation between the amount of mRNA produced by isogenic wild-type , mutant and revertant cells and the amount of a nuclear DNA binding factor containing Jun and Fos . |
| 14 | A recent formulation of this position , which introduces an important distinction between state functionaries and enterprise management , is by Stoleroff : The ‘ state bourgeoisie ’ consists of two fractions : the state machine and the productive enterprise ( Stoleroff 1985 , pp. 280–2 ) . |
| 15 | The new Documenta-Halle , backing onto the Friedrichsplatz , now forms an ideal bridge between the other two buildings . |
| 16 | Among surface of predators are the pelagic shoaling fish Pleurogramma antarcticum ( Figure 5.13 ) , which forms an important link between the plankton and the higher vertebrates . |
| 17 | The written acceptance of an obligation by a third party creates an additional agreement between the parties to the original agreement and the third party . |
| 18 | Their response is depressing — and also debilitating — because it creates an instant polarity between what might be termed the old and new agendas of the left , when what is actually required is a synthesis . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the obligation to pay loan interest on the due dates creates an immediate debt between the company and the loan stock holder for which he can sue , whereas a preference dividend does not become a debt until it is declared and due . |
| 20 | It is a class alliance that creates an objective link between indigenous capital and labour and one that is also linked to the progressive features of capitalist development . |
| 21 | It takes Paul de Man 's Allegories of Reading as its example and demonstrates that a multi-layered structure of different voices and personalities creates an untheorised confusion between a text and its reading : a confusion which is seen as a key factor in the impact of deconstruction in literary studies . |
| 22 | Throughout this paper it has been argued that separating special education policy from mainstream education policy creates an artificial division between special and mainstream education . |
| 23 | Overall it offers an acceptable balance between performance , practically and weight . |
| 24 | At the level of the 280 Local Labour Market Areas , the proportion of economically active or retired people in the higher socioeconomic groups — the most sophisticated measure of social status available from the 1981 Census — displays an immense range between 43.1 per cent for St Albans and 12.5 per cent for West Bromwich ( Table 4.7A ) . |
| 25 | There is , in fact , a complex network of gene interactions , the product of one gene controlling the activity of others which involves an intimate relationship between nucleus and cytoplasm , because cytoplasmic signals play a crucial role in controlling transcription and thus determining whether genes are on or off . |
| 26 | Any legal system has to have an ideological base which represents an ideological alliance between the ruling class and other classes and class fractions . |
| 27 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 28 | Institutionally , the Pharmacopoeia represents an important bridge between the 126-member Council of Europe organisation and the 12 nations of the European Community . |
| 29 | Initially the road winds through woodlands of birch and alder and hazel and oak uncharacteristic of the harsh Sutherland terrain and alongside a dancing beck ; it then crosses an open moor between the buttresses of Quinag and the waters of Loch Cairnbawn . |
| 30 | By using characters from other such works , she draws an implicit parallel between religious or historical fundamentalism which enforces a single interpretation of the discourses of the past , and literary critical ‘ fundamentalism ’ which arrogates an individual reading of a text to the status of a general truth . |