Example sentences of "between [pron] [coord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's between them and the Swiss Banks . |
| 2 | Not only between himself and those in his charge , but as interpreter between them and the hearing world . |
| 3 | There were a dozen fine estates between them and the distant skyline . |
| 4 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 5 | The peace with Scotland brought opposition to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella into the open , and , perhaps more significantly , marked the beginning of a breach , not as yet overt , between them and the young king , who was now sixteen years old . |
| 6 | Grant , satisfied that the wide expanse of lawn between them and the dark treeline remained comfortingly deserted , and no light showed in any of the blank windows of the house , slipped the coiled rope from his shoulder . |
| 7 | England — even in Paris — should win that one , which will leave Wales at Twickenham between them and the Grand Slam . |
| 8 | In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified . |
| 9 | They thus became the outstanding exponents of what has sometimes been called , with a variety of overtones , ‘ Neo-orthodoxy ’ ; and in the widening gulf between them and the other two there emerges very clearly what one recent writer has aptly described as ‘ the divided mind of modern theology ’ . |
| 10 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 11 | As far as those who not only do this but also work exclusively for a single organization are concerned , it makes the distinction between them and the regular employees of that organization an unclear and almost unreal one . |
| 12 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 13 | Between them and the broad swipes of the sun |
| 14 | The Spanish Civil War was the result of the collapse of political and social coexistence among Spaniards ; and , in turn , fashioned subsequent political developments , inside each of the opposing war zones which emerged in the summer of 1936 , between them , and between them and the outside world . |
| 15 | The intention here was to test our theory by making things difficult for ourselves : it would have been much easier to select upper-middle class communities and to demonstrate gross differences between them and the inner city . |
| 16 | Using his superior strength , Rocky dragged and wrestled the struggling Larsen another twenty yards back , doubling the distance between them and the blazing building . |
| 17 | The understanding reached between them and the catholic — nationalist lay leadership resulted in schooling in the future state being allocated to the domain of the church , in exchange for the legitimation of that state by the church leadership . |
| 18 | This would present no great difficulty if one were dealing with a single cell but real lumber contains many thousands and it is necessary to diffuse the water from the inner cells through the walls of most of the other cells which lie between them and the outer world . |
| 19 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 20 | They are often already experienced in the needs of those they are looking after , and a close relationship can build up between them and the whole family . |
| 21 | These sensible recommendations were also designed to harmonize relationships between institutions and their local authorities , in that the granting to institutions of considerably more discretion in the control and allocation of resources would help to avoid the kind of disputes that had erupted between them and the local authorities in the past . |
| 22 | Later , both Dustin and Voight avowed they were rooting for Wayne , despite the wide political divergence between them and the older star . |
| 23 | Trent had already warned his charter party back to the catamaran , keeping himself between them and the big fish . |
| 24 | They cling to their gang-of-lads-from-Oldham identity like it 's the last line of defence between them and the unthinkable horror of an interview with Melvyn Bragg . |
| 25 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
| 26 | Only 4 points between them and the dreaded relegation zone . |
| 27 | There was the glance over the shoulder now and again to make sure they kept some distance between them and the white proletariat which erupted in new housing estates , bringing property values down . |
| 28 | The differences here between the first two teams are insignificant , but the difference between them and the third team is striking . |
| 29 | However , not all sections were ‘ incorporated ’ in this way : ‘ whilst the ‘ respectable ’ sections of the working class have increased in size , the gap between them and the dwindling lower-working class , including the sections who remain ‘ rough ’ , has widened' ( ibid.:237–8 ) . |
| 30 | Some of its members had moved in left-wing circles before the war and there was tension between them and the permanent civil servants . |