Example sentences of "between an [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | It 's actually very easy to tell strings apart , though , just by squeezing the coil in your hand before you unwrap it ; the difference between an .009 and an .012 is pretty obvious . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Does everybody know the difference between an internal and an external ring ? |
| 5 | In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | This illustrates another problem , that the only effective difference between an interactive and a redundant modular system is the degree of disruption produced by damage to a single component . |
| 10 | A change in the weight or fineness of a coinage can occasionally provide a link between an undated and a dated coin . |
| 11 | How likely is the disease to be passed on or acquired in any one given act of sexual intercourse between an infected and an uninfected person ? |