Example sentences of "between them [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies .
2 A married man and his wife who could between them earn 15s ( 75p ) and had one child would , out of work , have received 10s ( 50p ) .
3 Three years later the tally had risen to seventeen countries , between them operating 167 nuclear reactors .
4 To assign them to a calendar scale and determine the sizes of the intervals between them requires absolute dating methods , such as those described above or those based on radioactive decay .
5 As you will see , these sections between them raise several important analytical questions .
6 Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath .
7 They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham .
8 He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up .
9 We use the same A , B , C , as in Example 1 , but select as our starting vector submatrix unc In choosing Yo we have selected simple vectors which are clearly linearly independent , and which between them bring all elements in A into operation in the formation of Wo .
10 The powerful Serbs and Croats , who between them control most of Bosnia , seemed poised to squeeze the weak Muslim-led government forces and try to carve up most of the state between them .
11 Again the space between them seemed solid .
12 Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent .
13 Comparisons between them became commonplace , but unlike Brando , this other rebel was not so aggressive either on screen or off it .
14 The attainment targets in National Curriculum history require the use of both , but it is important to be aware of the distinction between them to avoid great confusion .
15 Different symbol systems have different structures , but the commonalities between them allow each to be addressed as patterns of signifiers and signifieds , and discourses to be seen as made up of texts , as well as power relations .
16 By 1917 the British and the Russians between them occupied most of Iran .
17 But at a 72-nation conference in the Netherlands yesterday , Britain , the United States , Japan and the Soviet Union , which between them emit 50 per cent of the world 's carbon dioxide , blocked a proposed freeze on emissions of the gas by the year 2000 and a 20 per cent reduction by 2005 .
18 The tale is all too familiar , but in this case it has a tragic poignancy : Leopold 's heart was broken by his son 's defection , and the rift between them remained unhealed even at the old man 's death .
19 The rocks themselves are streaked with gleaming mineral secretions ; in the cracks between them grow spiky aloes with bright red florets .
20 BARRY HEARN and Ian Doyle , who between them manage 13 of the world 's top 20 players , have jointly announced the relaunching of a world series .
21 In 1961 a rancorous match between them ended level with two wins each and seven draws , before Fischer , then 18 , walked out .
22 And it was three , three mothers hired a hall and a cake and everything between them to have three parties .
23 That charge between them sparked all at once .
24 There 's no tactile feedback from the square , shirt-button sized keys , but sufficient space between them to trap most errors .
25 His thin pink lips , which normally she loved for their delicacy and sensitivity , were stretched in a colourless line , and between them showed sharp discoloured teeth .
26 The others include Western Areas , H. J Joel , South Deep and Lindum which between them produce 51.7 tons of gold .
27 The buyer is said not to be one of the large five record companies — Thorn EMI of the UK , Sony , Warner , Polygram and Bertelsman — which between them dominate 70 per cent of world sales .
28 Throughout her reign , and particularly in its first decade or so , noble factions and the struggles between them did much to restrict her freedom of action : in 1772–73 the conflict at court between the rival Panin and Orlov parties for a time deprived her almost completely of any such freedom .
29 So the lines between them stayed hot .
30 It i my Lord Mayor , it is indeed colossal cheek and pure hypocrisy on the part of the Tory Group , and particularly on the part of Councillor , to be putting forward the resolution congratulating schools on their success in responding to the introduction of Local Management , when they and the Government , between them impose such conditions that could only lead to chaos and disorder .
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