Example sentences of "the middle of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 150,000 price quotations are collected for the 350 items on a specified Tuesday near the middle of every month . |
| 2 | He steered through the middle of every cloud in his path . |
| 3 | I 'm in the middle of a government grant on my house and by the time I get that together and spending money , which I should n't be doing , on junk , y'know , and I want to start a family and that , y'know , and try and be respectable , but it just does n't seem to be available under this health service , this National Health Service , although I do know people who have it prescribed . |
| 4 | In the middle of A Man for All Seasons there 's a ping , and on come the little red signs : FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT . |
| 5 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 6 | I was right in the middle of a sentence . |
| 7 | But equally often he 'd collapse in the middle of a sentence or whistling a tune . |
| 8 | By continually sharing speaking and listening — if you are trying to convey something , it is very distracting if the receiver keeps interrupting you in the middle of a sentence . |
| 9 | The sole exception to this seems to be in the case of co-ordination of whole clauses , where the co-ordination would be a matter of like treatment in respect of assertoric or imperative or interrogative force ( so that co-ordinations of , say , a command and a statement , if they ever occur , sound odd , or make one feel that the speaker has switched constructions in the middle of a sentence ) . |
| 10 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 11 | Generally , when you wish to punctuate a piece of optional , additional information or an aside that you are embedding in the middle of a sentence — for example with commas , dashes or brackets — then whatever punctuation you use should be placed both before and after the added element to signal its boundaries , not just at one end or the other . |
| 12 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 13 | The basilica of Santo Stefano Maggiore — once known as Santo Stefano in Brolo , because when it was first built it stood in the middle of a field ; through the field ran a stream which fed ponds in which toads croaked noisily enough in the mating season to affect the services — was begun in the fifth-century . |
| 14 | Whoever designed it intended it to be an eye-catcher as well as a practical building , and it remains a local landmark in the middle of a field , Peyto 's estate having long gone . |
| 15 | Placed in the middle of a field of alfalfa , foraging bees will fly tremendous distances to find alternative sources of food . |
| 16 | It is one of those inexplicable events that a rabbit hole in the middle of a field can be gassed and its population exterminated , the hole filled in and cultivated over the top , yet , even after the passage of a number of years , a rabbit will go to that exact location and restore the old system . |
| 17 | He was recruited into the second Special Boat Section operating across the Channel from Dover , after the second-in-command of No. 1 Troop had called for volunteers — duties unspecified — as the Troop walked by his chair in the middle of a field . |
| 18 | because I breed racehorses , I also am a farmer so I wear two hats , but I 've actually seen foxes sit down we move the hounds move in , si sit down and scratch in the middle of a field , and then they think ah ! |
| 19 | A round , gradual , shallow cone , the Hillock has , at first sight , no context : it stands in the middle of a field , growing scrabby grass , an egregious lone breast . |
| 20 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 21 | If you want to correct in the middle of a field , use |
| 22 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 23 | Of equal importance is the ability to understand what can be seen at some historical sites where there is little attempt at historical reconstruction to assist understanding — perhaps a burial mound in the middle of a field or a ruined castle . |
| 24 | I 'm going out in the middle of a field . |
| 25 | Literally out in the middle of a field . |
| 26 | They went straight in to land at Luqa , but as they approached saw bombs bursting on the runway — they had arrived in the middle of a raid ! |
| 27 | Perhaps we 're in the middle of a nest of spies whom Meredith-Lee was about to unmask . |
| 28 | What happens if the muse strikes — no , that is hardly the appropriate word — if the muse visits you in the middle of a case ? |
| 29 | ‘ I remember when I was in the middle of a presentation in the advertising agency where I was working and the phone went . |
| 30 | And it 's it 's true in any presentation there 's nothing more uncomfortable is there than somebody in the middle of a presentation that you 're watching struggling that 's right you really feel sorry for them . |