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

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1 By October the Communist attitude had softened in the light of the pact of Unity between the Socialists and Communists in France .
2 I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers .
3 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 .
4 An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority .
5 Given the difference in the spread of support between the parties , it is possible for one party to get more votes than its opponent party but receive fewer seats .
6 For the NIPPV group there was a rise in pH , compared with a fall in the controls ( mean difference of change between the groups 0.046 [ 95% CI 0.06–0.02 , p < 0.001 ] ) , and a larger fall in PaCO 2 ( mean difference in change between the groups 1.2 kPa [ 95% CI 0.45 to 2.03 , p < 0.01 ] ) .
7 She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees .
8 The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement .
9 Exercises can be carried out by individuals or as a class activity with the possibility of interaction between the students and teachers .
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 This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness .
12 He became lost in one of his dour moods so I let him be and went to the window to stare out at a dairy maid carrying pitchers of milk between the barns and the kitchen .
13 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 .
14 Such explanations overlooked the history and depth of tension between the Hashemites and Palestinians , and ignored the continuing disparity of purpose between the two parties over the past half century .
15 By the early 1960s , Khruschev wanted a division of labour between the members of Comecon .
16 Political scientists can not be blamed for reporting this particular division of labour between the sexes .
17 Observations on modern hunter-gatherer societies confirm the generality of division of labour between the sexes , the fact that a certain portion of the food is shared between group members , and that hunting tends to be a male activity .
18 What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues .
19 However , with regard to the length of each operational tour of duty , it is obvious that there was a deal of confusion between the Commands .
20 Until recently differences in the rate of crime between the sexes was generally explained as being due to biological or psychological differences .
21 These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community .
22 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 .
23 It no doubt increased the degree of violence between the pickets and the police .
24 Moreover evidence of association between the brothers was relevant to whether the identification of TJ was accurate and could support identification evidence ( Turnbull [ 1977 ] Q.B .
25 The bed beside her was empty , but there were men in the yard : she could see a glimmer of light between the shutters and hear a flotsam of voices now and then , when the wind died .
26 I drive the car up the little single-track road leading towards the low hills ; the headlights create a deep channel of illumination between the hedges .
27 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 .
28 Most crucially , it would have the right to issue an Estonian currency , probably named after the kron which served during the 20 years of independence between the wars .
29 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 .
30 There is a great deal of competitiveness between the sections , sometimes not always friendly , with each thinking itself the most efficient and ‘ best ’ at policing .
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