Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the middle [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nurse should strive for the middle way between total involvement in the job dominating her personal life to the point where her development as a person is impaired and her health jeopardised ; and the other extreme in which she may be technically proficient , but appears totally detached from the work both emotionally and socially . |
| 2 | Then he ventured into the middle kitchen where most of the food was kept . |
| 3 | COMPANIES trading with the Middle East may face retaliation if oil sales are hit by energy taxes proposed in Europe and the United States , writes Frank Frazer . |
| 4 | ‘ He said he was walking along the middle line so he could see where he was going , ’ said Mr Wellens , of Blue Ridge , Morton-on-Swale . |
| 5 | A roundtable discussion on the question ‘ What type of information do we need in the Middle East ? ’ dealt , among other things , with attitudes to information in the region , in view of the perception that information means power , and that access to it should therefore be restricted . |
| 6 | Prestel is located in the Middle School library at present and is used primarily for retrieval and research work . |
| 7 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 8 | There is a big difference between the terms that you may be able to negotiate with , say , a US company seeking to recruit you to work in the Middle East and those offered by , say , a West German company offering a job at their headquarters , for which you are competing with a West German national . |
| 9 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 10 | She was trapped in the middle lane , there was a solid wall of lorries to her left , and to her right a blur of fast cars . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , it was reported in the Middle East Economic Digest of Sept. 28 that the Local Government Minister , Ali Hasan al-Majid , a cousin of President Saddam Hussein and formerly chief of security with special responsibility for the Kurds ( reported on Aug. 20 as in control of Kuwait 's security and administration — see p. 37635 ) , was named governor of Kuwait . |
| 12 | French military estimates , reported in the Middle East Economic Digest of Jan. 31 , set the total number of Iraqis killed in the Gulf war at 50,000 . |
| 13 | A good effect , especially if a mildly bizarre or impertinent characterization is required , is that obtained from two clarinets at two octaves distance , one in its upper register and the other in its chalumeau , and if an oboe is added in the middle octave the reediness is much enhanced and the penetrating power of the combination greatly increased . |
| 14 | For Mordecai it was a symbolic birthplace , for he was a direct descendant from one of the millions of Jews who had been evacuated from the Middle East in 1990 . |
| 15 | It has been installed in the Middle East and will soon be in use in what used to be the Eastern block . |
| 16 | I can sill see in my own mind the ball knocking down the middle stump , and as Hearne walked past Lowry he said , ‘ This is quite unfair , Mr Lowry . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Noah 's Flood had been confined to the Middle East . |
| 18 | Even what are supposed to be working-class interests , are often led and dominated by the middle class , as has frequently been observed . |
| 19 | The Bitter Cry was a vitriolic , moving and widely publicized polemic against the ‘ pestilential human rookeries … where tens of thousands are crowded together amidst horrors which call to mind what we have heard of the middle passage of the slave-ship ’ . |
| 20 | After dinner , the Shah and Carter retired to a study to talk about the Middle east with King Hussein , whom Crown Prince Reza and Ardeshir Zahedi had just welcomed at the door . |
| 21 | It 's a girl looking for the middle son , Paul . |
| 22 | ta , you actually walk through the middle bit do n't you ? |
| 23 | People come in all shapes and sizes and rucksack makers often have to aim for the middle ground when deciding on specifications . |
| 24 | Major has swiftly moved towards the middle ground of politics . |
| 25 | Thirdly , however , it is likely that the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ will have operated amongst the middle class , the working class employed in the new expanding consumer industries , and those migrating from the old industrial areas to the South East and the Midlands . |
| 26 | It is most frequently done with the middle finger . |
| 27 | Their predilection for keepers who can contribute in the middle order is understandable since this permits a full hand of bowlers , and Downton , of course , vindicated the policy in admirable fashion . |
| 28 | What happens in the middle part of each phase may seem — mistakenly — unimportant . |
| 29 | When the truck had dumped me and my kit-bag at the Guard Room and I had a chance to look around me , I spied in the middle distance a cluster of substantial looking buildings . |
| 30 | By the late neolithic , Knossian house plans had become quite elaborate , with square fireplaces set against a wall or in the centre of the room , and with neighbouring dwellings juxtaposed to make a cellular layout familiar in Early Minoan villages such as Fournou Korifi ( Myrtos ) and the temples that were to be built in the Middle Minoan . |