Example sentences of "between [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite the political rhetoric of the modern welfare state , which has created popular images to the contrary , the reality is that the basic state retirement pension continues to provide an income between a third and a half of average earnings . |
| 32 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 33 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 34 | The hours worked in the late 1970s were between a third and a quarter longer than those in all the other railways studied by the BR/Leeds team ( 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 35 | In England , by the later seventeenth century , there had emerged a fairly clear-cut distinction where foreign affairs were concerned between a northern and a southern department , with each of the two secretaries handling relations with the foreign states which fell into one of these geographical divisions . |
| 36 | In translating the imperative verbs in the above text into Arabic , the translator would normally have to choose , as far as gender is concerned , between a masculine and a feminine form for each verb . |
| 37 | A major issue in the decision between a generative and a probabilistic system is the robustness of the system . |
| 38 | There are some great differences between a secular and a Christian world-view regarding finances . |
| 39 | In total , monks and nuns disposed of between a sixth and a seventh of all Domesday landed value . |
| 40 | The statement called for a meeting between a Libyan and a United Kingdom delegate to discuss this issue . |
| 41 | In this way the choice between a particular and a universal interpretation of the concept of social representation can involve more than a preference for one son of definition over another . |
| 42 | It is essential at this point to try to understand what is happening to Burton since so much of his public life flows from the tensions between Hollywood and the English stage , between money and art , as it was thought , between philandering and fidelity , between a public and a private life . |
| 43 | The respondent 's contention is that there is a difference between a public and a private Act . |
| 44 | Now , nearly the whole output of houses is built under contract to local authorities and the remainder — between a tenth and a fifth of the whole — are built by licence to individual order . |
| 45 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 46 | In Britain , unlike some European countries , there is no choice between a right-wing and a left-wing television news channel . |
| 47 | But a lot of our client 's finance sections , do n't see the difference between a big and a little job they see some pigeon holes in their spreadsheet and they want to put something in there . |
| 48 | Though she did not know it , for Clare there had been no choice except between a swift or a lingering death . |
| 49 | You will be able to choose between a single or a double oven , with an eye-level grill or a grill at waist level , often set into a small top oven . |
| 50 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 51 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
| 52 | Oakeshott 's attack on rationalism , which incidentally included an attack on the doctrinal nature of Hayek 's The Road to Serfdom , is transformed by Hayek — who utilizes Popper 's distinction between a naive and a critical rationalism — into an attack on constructivist rationalism . |
| 53 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 54 | The force between two positive charges is repulsive , as is the force between two negative charges , but the force is attractive between a positive and a negative charge . |
| 55 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 56 | what has most carefully to be defined is the specific association of what are really quite unchanged class feelings — a persistent sense of a quite clear line between an upper and a lower class — with very strong and effective feelings of sympathy with the lower class as victims . |
| 57 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 58 | The developer , in identifying land for residential development , may choose between an active and a passive role in locating and bringing land into the company 's land bank . |
| 59 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 60 | Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does ! |