Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 2 | The entrance was in the middle of the wall opposite the villa house where the owner and his family lived . |
| 3 | The real turning point was in the middle of the tour — the natural break in it — July and August . |
| 4 | The Mock Turtle was in the middle of a very sad song when they all heard a shout a long way away : ‘ It 's beginning ! ’ |
| 5 | The office block was in the middle of a hellish whirlwind . |
| 6 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
| 7 | Probably the most idyllic polling station in Britain , the Bucks Horn Oak voting centre was in the middle of Alice Holt Forest . |
| 8 | Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang . |
| 9 | Three years ago we trained foragers along a lake and tricked them into dancing to indicate to potential recruit bees in the hive that the food was in the middle of the lake . |
| 10 | Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front . |
| 11 | The air operations officer was in the middle of co-ordinating the helicopter tasking for the day , when a Wessex landed beside the swimming pool , causing part of the screen fencing to blow into the pool and OC B Company to have a minor sense of humour failure . |
| 12 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 13 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |