Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 2 | What happens in the middle part of each phase may seem — mistakenly — unimportant . |
| 3 | Stratabound pyrite mineralisation occurs in the Middle Dalradian Ben Lawers Schist Formation , and its lateral equivalents , over a strike length exceeding 50 km . |
| 4 | The mineralisation occurs within the Middle Dalradian Ben Lawers Schist Formation just above the Ben Eagach Schist Formation . |
| 5 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 6 | The Assistance Publique originates from the middle ages and was , until around 1960 , essentially an organisation to provide health and social care of all kinds for the poor of Paris — including , for example , provision for abandoned children and material assistance to those in need . |
| 7 | Although , in the evening , the orange glow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne hangs in the middle distance and the moan of motorways is blown to the outskirts of its beautiful formal gardens , it remains a peaceful oasis of eighteenth-century civilization , unchanged in its verdant park , beneath which lurk a hundred disused coal pits . |
| 8 | The Quetzal swims in the middle layers of the water , and feeds on vegetable matter and insects , sometimes picking at rocks — if you look closely you will see the anterior teeth , clearly visible , which are ideally suited for such browsing . |
| 9 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |
| 10 | While making no overt concessions , he told lawyers and judges at the Middle Temple in London that discussions between a proposed advisory committee , the Law Society and senior judges ‘ may lead to different conclusions for different types of case , and most important of all , our conclusions may change in the light of experience ’ . |
| 11 | Against the left-hand wall nearest to the camera are three storage shelves ; a lidless unvarnished coffin in the process of construction sits on the middle shelf . |
| 12 | Weighing only 280gm , the TEC LM100 falls into the middle bracket of glue guns , above the ‘ hobbyist ’ miniature variety and just below the large trade tools . |
| 13 | It falls into the middle range of portable belt sanders . |
| 14 | Overall performance falls in the middle bracket and is respectable for a normally-aspirated car . |
| 15 | But is , is , I mean w w what we 've said so far is that the problem with this is that there is n't enough land and therefore it encroaches on the middle peasant and , and that 's the problem , that 's the reason you had to change your policy . |
| 16 | Pontnewydd Cave ( fig. 7.11 ) is situated near Rhyl in North Wales and is one of only two British sites having hominid remains of the Middle Pleistocene period . |
| 17 | The old Chorlape chair still operates from the middle station . |
| 18 | The name Bayonne itself comes from the middle Middle Ages and meant ‘ good river ’ in Basque . |
| 19 | The mineralisation is of SEDEX type ( Large , 1983 ) with stratabound sulphates , silicates and sulphides occurring in small , third order basins within the Middle Dalradian and especially in the Ben Eagach Schist Formation ( Coats and others , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | The census returns from the middle decades of the nineteenth century record an extraordinary wide range of rural occupations before mechanization and mass production destroyed so many of the traditional hand crafts . |