Example sentences of "the [noun sg] between [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5 The difference between teachers ' perceived and actual training needs . |
| 2 | With government , central or regional , unable to make up the difference between parents ' ability to pay and the needs of schools , sharp differences in quality of education are inevitable . |
| 3 | As to the conflict between consultants ' ethical and contractual obligations , it is surely the case that because of the vulnerability of patients , and to maintain patients ' trust , doctors must always put ethical considerations first . |
| 4 | But because Lord Elton 's team was established as a Committee of Enquiry to look into a serious and immediate problem , it was precluded by its terms of reference from addressing the more fundamental questions concerning the conflict between teachers ' autonomy and children 's rights . |
| 5 | The extensive research that was commissioned confirmed earlier findings ( see 1954 Gurney-Dixon ) about the relationship between fathers ' occupational status and pupils ' educational attainment . |
| 6 | Much of their concern centred on what they saw as the imposition from above of particular versions of ‘ good primary practice ’ and the relationship between teachers ' allegiance to these and their career prospects . |
| 7 | Aspects of the history of the organ , harpsichord , clavichord and early piano ; the development , design , construction , specification and action of different instruments ; the relationship between instruments ' capabilities and the music written for them . |
| 8 | What is the relationship between companies ' usage of large international headhunting firms compared with smaller , specialised consultancies ? |
| 9 | What is the relationship between companies ' use of large international headhunting firms compared with smaller , specialised consultancies ? |
| 10 | In another field , that of child care law , the relationship between parents ' , children 's and state interests and rights has been affected by an increasing emphasis on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare . |
| 11 | The main aim of this project is to examine the relationship between parents ' facial expressiveness ( ie how facially expressive they are when feeling emotional ) and their children 's skill in decoding non verbal information ( in this case , their ability to recognise emotions from others ' facial expressions ) . |
| 12 | The process of language teaching will also be analysed in order to describe the relationship between pupils ' perceptions and the teaching to which they are exposed . |
| 13 | This shows the relationship between banks ' primary source of liquid assets ( notes , coin and bankers ' balances in col. 2 ) and total asset/liabilities . |
| 14 | Some sense of the conflict and confrontation generated by the difference on fundamental principle , the antithesis between Consumers ' and Industrial Co-operation , comes through Cole 's flat account , some sense of Mitchell as a man who saw things narrowly but very clearly , was sure of his objective and of the means of its achievement : the development of the CWS into the very large , multifarious and highly successful undertaking it became . |
| 15 | However , it can surely do no harm to apply these methods to code switching data , as long as the analyst is aware of the boundary between participants ' own interpretations — as warranted by " displays " within the talk — and the analysts ' intuitive interpretations . |
| 16 | I would therefore argue that even if the discrepancy between girls ' and boys ' performance at the top levels of achievement in mathematics was entirely due to differences in ability ( which I do not believe , but nevertheless should stay as a possible hypothesis ) , there is a strong case for saying that we should act to try to alter the situation . |
| 17 | Not only is the borderline between ministers ' policy and oversight responsibilities , and those of boards for efficiency and day-to-day administration , often blurred , but in practice there is considerable variation in relationships between ministers and boards . |
| 18 | Sex discrimination legislation in itself probably does little to alter the balance between boys ' and girls ' achievement , or bring their curricula nearer together . |