Example sentences of "the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | FREE IN THE MIDDLE EAST |
| 2 | All the thoughts and experience of the world had etched and moulded there , in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form , the animalism of Greece , the lust of Rome , the mysticism of the Middle Ages with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves , the return of the Pagan world , the sins of the Borgias . |
| 3 | Pater 's interpretation is justly celebrated , with its cornucopia of cultural references to Troy , Greece , Rome , the Middle Ages , as well as to Pagan gods and Christianity . |
| 4 | For some art historians , the Renaissance is a new beginning , though medievalists can point out convincingly that no one event divides the Middle Ages from the Renaissance . |
| 5 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 6 | These tints are balanced by a very little warm colour on a road and gravel pit in the foreground , a single house in the middle distance , and the scarlet jacket of a labourer . |
| 7 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 8 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |
| 9 | But if his ‘ true nature ’ is to be romantically on the rise , and to have ‘ ideas ’ , it is also his nature to occupy the middle ground . |
| 10 | SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point . |
| 11 | SUICIDE was thought damnable in the Middle Ages , and I expect there are those who have been brought to feel by a book called The Monument that the Middle Ages had a point . |
| 12 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 13 | George Schultz travelled to the Middle East in the summer of 1988 to spread the word that ‘ the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the frustration of Palestinian rights is a dead-end street . |
| 14 | And never , since the middle summer 's spring , |
| 15 | Many of these had just as much sense of loyalty and devotion to the church as the middle classes . |
| 16 | That is why so few books on the middle game , he wrote , though plenty on openings and endgames . |
| 17 | In the Middle Ages , he wrote , the glass in the cathedral walls glowed with the fires of judgement and damnation . |
| 18 | Stouts usually have gravities in the middle 1040s . |
| 19 | Tourism income in Jordan ebbs and flows with the political mood of the Middle East , but it has been hit particularly hard by the most recent turmoil . |
| 20 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 21 | In the main , however , policing continues to be publicly concerned to prevent and detect individual attempts to steal the property of the citizen and it suits the police 's purpose for their community role to be well broadcast , for on those rare occasions when they have expanded their controls to include the activities of the middle classes , they have found themselves on less certain ground . |
| 22 | ‘ But it 's true , ’ she said aloud , forcing her eyes to focus on the middle distance . |
| 23 | With two wins already gained and two more strong performers to come , the middle position is ideally suited for the weakest member . |
| 24 | Here the streets were alive with the chatter of tongues from all over Europe and the Middle East — the central meeting place of cultures , philosophies and religions , in which many found their roots . |
| 25 | Sephardic Jews , who are descended from Western Europe ( Spain and Portugal ; but also the Middle East and North Africa ) , expressed themselves through their own languages , but were always more ‘ intellectual ’ , more philosophical — in the Aristotelian sense - more scientific and commercial , and more open to syncretism ( e.g. with Islamic and Christian modes of thought ) than their Eastern brethren . |
| 26 | Mandy Wainwright played exceptionally well in taking the middle set 6–3 from 142 ranked Nana Miyagi from Japan ; whilst Joanne Ward typically made the most of her opportunity by extending Cristina Tessi to 7–5 6–1 . |
| 27 | The main muscles of the middle back are the latissimus dorsi and the lower trapezius . |
| 28 | This section of line is now double track and the station platforms have been altered to serve the middle roads on this picture . |
| 29 | Stouts usually have gravities in the middle 1040s . |
| 30 | The first stages are fitted with input offset adjustments just large enough to cancel the largest field likely to be encountered , namely the total inclined component in the middle latitudes . |