Example sentences of "in [verb] between [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less continued expansion of fundholding will lead to excessive management costs , difficulties of coordination in contracting between growing numbers of purchasers , and lack of effectiveness . |
| 2 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 3 | A person would be an active agent in deciding between two or more options when he could anticipate their potential existence and when , in doing so , he drew upon his previous experience and his previously formed values and interests to guide his judgement . |
| 4 | This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic . |
| 5 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The social anthropologist is equally , of course , an entrepreneur whose special expertise lies in mediating between exotic cultures and his own , and he has the same vested interests as other go-betweens . |
| 7 | It is quite possible to differentiate between qualitative similarity and numerical difference with regard to items in a phenomenological space ; for example , I have no difficulty in distinguishing between two qualitatively similar objects appearing simultaneously in two different regions of my visual field . |
| 8 | This working definition is crucial because of the difficulty in distinguishing between accidental and non-accidental injuries . |
| 9 | Where problems can arise is in distinguishing between possible dates in the last few centuries , but prior to the bomb effect . |
| 10 | The relative presence or absence of the latter is an important factor in distinguishing between different categories of small town . |
| 11 | He also seems to go further than this and sets the pattern for future elite theorists in distinguishing between maximum utility for a community and maximum utility of a community . |
| 12 | In distinguishing between these two , Gombrich uses the picture frame as an example of design . |
| 13 | The Wolfenden Committee , in distinguishing between public and private behaviour , also drew a distinction between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , and concluded that ‘ as a general proposition it will be universally accepted that the law is not concerned with private morals or ethical sanctions ’ , and further , ‘ it is not the duty of the law to concern itself with immorality as such … it should confine itself to those activities which offend against public order and decency and expose the ordinary citizen to what is offensive or injurious ’ . |
| 14 | In most cases , the kind of predictions about successive words which are possible from the preceding context are much less specific and would select a very large class of words , which would be of little help in discriminating between possible candidates . |
| 15 | Instead course development has been informed by a continuing series of evaluation studies which have sought to assist in establishing priorities and in discriminating between alternative developmental paths . |
| 16 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 17 | Taxation is often the deciding factor in choosing between alternative deal structures . |
| 18 | Taxation will often be the deciding factor in choosing between alternative structures and MAS will obtain from within the firm the appropriate degree of corporate , personal and international tax advice . |
| 19 | It can be important in choosing sites for factories that will create risks or in choosing between different kinds of equipment with different risks . |
| 20 | The determining factor in choosing between contracted-exit funds is the quality of the covenant — how secure is the institution underwriting the realisation value ? |
| 21 | It is possible to argue that the single occurrence of they in the data with a singular verb is accidental ( a ‘ performance error ’ ) but equally possible to claim that the non-occurrence of you , we and these with a singular verb is the consequence of an accidental gap in the corpus ; the line of reasoning characteristic of generative grammar is of little help to us here in choosing between these alternatives . |
| 22 | Such room for manoeuvre as existed in choosing between these two evils was only present in the very short run . |
| 23 | While very young children can differentiate the past from the present , many have considerable difficulty in differentiating between two periods in the past , or giving precision to the concept of chronology . |
| 24 | The enzyme progastricsin , is present in 30–40% of gastric adenocarcinomas and is thought to be useful in differentiating between colonic and gastric adenocarcinomas . |
| 25 | Although computed tomography is still the most widely used method of evaluating the head and neck , the superior demonstration of soft tissue planes with MRI enables more accurate delineation of the extent of head and neck tumours and also helps in differentiating between inflammatory and neoplastic conditions . |
| 26 | Great care is required in differentiating between those acts that are negligent but result from carelessness as opposed to recklessness . |
| 27 | To discover that there is no difference in meaning between two forms may , of course , take children a long time . |
| 28 | If children can find no difference in meaning between such pairs , and yet wish to maintain the principle of Contrast , they must eliminate one member of the pair . |
| 29 | During the Spanish war Hayes is found engaged in privateering between 1589 and 1591 , but the rest of his life was spent largely in projecting . |