Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical conditions in Darlington were dire until the middle of the 19th century . |
| 2 | They were alone in the middle of acres of oak , hundreds of yards away from the nearest path . |
| 3 | The ceiling is too low and the windows were stuck in the middle of each wall only because you 've got to have windows to satisfy the regulations . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , only the top third of pupils showed a high success rate for this task and the incorrect responses 10p and 40p were common in the middle and bottom attainment bands . |
| 5 | Already they were close to the middle of the cloud funnel . |
| 6 | This would leave verges of fourteen feet width on each side , if the paved road were dead in the middle . |
| 7 | The nasal strip was popular until the middle of the twelfth century , when it dropped out of general use . |
| 8 | The term ‘ Digital mortgage ’ in Galway was synonymous with the middle to upper end of the housing market . |
| 9 | Institutional delivery of babies was uncommon before the middle of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 11 | I wo , well she was awake in the middle of the night , I do n't know what time it was but all I could hear was mummy , mummy , mummy ! |
| 12 | It was not just that I was alone in the middle of the enemy . |
| 13 | When I was scared in the middle of the night at home , I 'd lie and comfort myself by talking in whispers to Somebody . |