Example sentences of "middle of [art] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 The possibility that the unfortunate young gentleman was waylaid seems inescapable ; he was , however , in possession of little , if any , money to attract the attention of would-be malefactors , and that he could have been attacked in broad daylight , in the middle of a city the size of Vienna , appears to us virtually incredible . ’ '
2 Indeed , given the fact that they were in the middle of a war the balance of which they were afraid might tip disastrously against them , would they really have opted out other than by a deliberate political decision which would not be taken until well into the future ?
3 By the middle of the year the ALP was also in control of every state government except New South Wales , where it had lost power in 1988 .
4 In the middle of the chaos the unfortunate earl 's car got a puncture ; sorting that out was an unspeakable experience .
5 Through the middle of the day the pubs remained open and hostilities grew worse .
6 From the middle of the decade the idea developed that a ‘ clean break ’ with past patterns of urbanization had occurred ( Berry 1976 , Vining and Kontuly 1978 ) .
7 The Gulbenkian Foundation was exploring training for the performing arts , and by the middle of the decade the CNAA found itself confronting the complex range of elements of the creative and performing arts in its existing courses , and expressions of interest by institutions proposing specialist courses — notably in drama and in dance and movement .
8 ‘ , ‘ In the middle of the road the grand figure of the mother with child in her patterned Welsh shawl .
9 By the middle of the century the population was ripe for disaster and this arrived in the form of the Black Death , an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague between 1348–50 .
10 The country was conquered by the Afghans but by the middle of the century the Persians had not only thrown out the Afghans but also marched through the Khyber Pass and captured India .
11 By the middle of the century the most important lectures were called Discourses , and were delivered on Friday evenings .
12 In the middle of the yard the little pony Alejandro regarded as useless stood quivering with terror .
13 Out in the middle of the Estuary the deep water reflected the unclouded sky while the shallows were one vast gleaming mirror .
14 By the middle of the Devonian the lobe-finned fish had acquired a suitable set of bones and muscles , and a stumpy fin arrangement that could easily be adapted to a four-footed locomotion .
15 In the middle of the summer the Japanese had plans to develop the island with aircraft bases after the American counter-stroke of 7 August landed on Guadalcanal , more than 2,000 miles ( 3,000+km ) to the east of Timor .
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