Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | And therefore more protection for the middle peasants . |
| 2 | So there is , there is this very clear and I think very substantial protection for the middle peasant . |
| 3 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 4 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 5 | Once again the American 's plans for the Middle East were in disarray and then the Israelis allowed Phalangist units to enter the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra and Shatilla and massacre everyone within reach . |
| 6 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 7 | In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors . |
| 8 | It was his next appointment in March 1904 , to the embassy in Constantinople , which fired his enthusiasm for the Middle East and settled the subsequent course of his brief but eventful life . |
| 9 | The conclusion must be drawn that at the end of the period 1978–83 , when America 's peace process was at its height , the dangers for the Middle East , particularly Israel , had increased rather than receded . |
| 10 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 11 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 12 | Far below London in size came the provincial capitals , the cities of Norwich , Bristol , York , Exeter , Newcastle upon Tyne and perhaps Salisbury and Coventry , each of which began to recover from the doldrums of the late-medieval recession during the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 13 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 14 | The two other major opposition parties , the Portuguese Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Português — PCP ) and the Party of the Democratic Social Centre ( Partido do Centro Democrático Social — CDS ) , won 13 and 9 per cent respectively , emphasizing that the party system had essentially become bipolar with a contest for the middle ground between the PSD and the PS as its major feature . |
| 15 | A very likely explanation is that it is a form of hyll = hill , found in the West Midlands and the south-west as the Middle English hull , and this in combination with the first syllable forms a byname given in the fourteenth century to a person who lived ‘ up the hill ’ . |
| 16 | He says the world must examine the future for the Middle East when the Gulf crisis is over . |
| 17 | He had founded the College during the Middle Ages , even before Columbus discovered the New World . |
| 18 | The combination of the ‘ Carter Doctrine ’ , the outbreak of the Iran Iraq war and the proclaimed American intention to establish a rapid deployment force for the Middle East added appreciably to the dangers of a superpower confrontation in the Persian Gulf . |
| 19 | Because it seems that erm it 's a luxury for the middle class really to be able to afford Traidcraft erm prices . |
| 20 | Denwood , ‘ the coming metropolis of the Middle West ’ , despite its attractive situation , was useless to the railway . |
| 21 | At this point the alarm bells started ringing in the ears of the Middle Management along the coast , and mutiny was definitely on the cards amongst all grades of staff , not just the footplate men . |
| 22 | Later he was to acquire his pleasure dome , his fabled mansion , his circular bed , his non-stop room service of food , drink , movies , closed circuit television and girls from the Bunnies ' dormitory , the Xanadu of the Middle West over which he presided as Chicago 's Kubla Khan . |
| 23 | In other words , if it were possible to remove the grievances of the middle classes against those above them , then it might also be possible to nip off the danger of an alliance between the middle classes and the working classes below them . |
| 24 | Divorce and remarriage of the middle generation will affect the care of elderly people , for how many ex-in-laws are likely to be cared for by ex-sons and daughters-in-law ? |
| 25 | Chaucer 's pilgrims travelled only a short distance from London to Canterbury , but to embark on a pilgrimage was one of the ways in which an ordinary citizen of the Middle Ages could travel abroad . |
| 26 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 27 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 28 | There are two main issues in the study of the Middle Pleistocene sequence . |
| 29 | , Sir Richard , second baronet ( c. 1659–1726 ) , parliamentary diarist and controversialist , was born about 1659 , the eldest son of Richard Cocks of the Middle Temple and his wife Mary , daughter of Sir Robert Cooke of Highnam , Gloucestershire . |
| 30 | Scots preparing for conquest are a wonderful bunch , not much different I imagine from those bearded clansmen of the middle ages . |