Example sentences of "in the middle [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely Co Armagh 's quarter final victory over favourites Slovakia warranted more than two lines in the middle of a Rangers match report . |
| 2 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 3 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 4 | Birds make strange noises in winter in the middle of the woods . |
| 5 | A Friendship House was constructed in the middle of the woods and a ‘ free university ’ opened . |
| 6 | They had walked about fifteen miles , when they passed a large empty house in the middle of the woods . |
| 7 | You place this somewhere in the middle of the lines . |
| 8 | It was in the middle of the miners ' strike , and feelings were running high . |
| 9 | For example , the representation of a temple on a coin may show a gap in the middle of the columns which is filled with an image of the relevant god ( fig. 12 ) . |
| 10 | The convention of abbreviation is relatively straightforward , but other conventions are more complicated , such as the above-mentioned depiction of a cult image in a gap in the middle of the columns . |
| 11 | I 've done the , I 'm just in the middle of the skills one . |
| 12 | This is Romania 50 years ago in the middle of the pogroms . |
| 13 | They are sitting on stools in the middle of the cattle enclosure talking to Tepilit 's father , Sentue . |
| 14 | So I went up and there was a bloke standing in the middle of the toilets , by the basin , tossing himself off , and I said , ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ |
| 15 | The arrests were only marginally less disconcerting for the chief negotiator for the African National Congress , Cyril Ramaphosa : the swoop , coming in the middle of the talks , strengthened the PAC 's claim to be more vigorous than the ANC in opposing apartheid . |
| 16 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 17 | Top ( needle ) thread and bottom ( bobbin ) threads have to meet in the middle of the materials being sewn . |
| 18 | Mrs Jessie Swalwell , of Spitalfields , Yarm , was caught with her bicycle in the middle of the crowds . |
| 19 | When he was conducting I would often sit in the orchestra in the middle of the woodwinds . |
| 20 | Despite its geographical inaccuracy the song , politically speaking , was right on target , designed as it was to show that the Duke of Aquitaine was building a castle right in the middle of the lands of the Count of Anjou . |
| 21 | Sitting in the middle of the antennae are specialised chlorophyll molecules that trap the photon energy . |
| 22 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 23 | She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … ) |
| 24 | But the Athletics Congress , the US ruling body caught in the middle of the drugs ban row , voted to take its case to his court hearing . |
| 25 | In the middle of the speeches , Diana left . |
| 26 | In the middle of the negotiations with the Iranians in October 1986 , North mentioned , laughing , that he had managed to talk to the Kuwaiti foreign minister about matters of mutual concern ‘ in my spare time between blowing up Nicaragua ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ In the middle of the proceedings a man came on stage and announced the death of the King , ’ recalls Mr Keenan . |
| 28 | Before a BBC Radio Cleveland debate yesterday , he was obliged to explain off air that because of an undemocratic stomach bug he might suddenly have to leave in the middle of the proceedings . |
| 29 | The view is excellent from all seats , although the two passengers in the middle of the benches have to lean from side to side to make the most of it . |
| 30 | The building had two front doors , side by side , one for each house , and the steps up to each door were not divided ; an urn full of some kind of greenery stood in the middle of the steps , but there was no attempt at distinction . |