Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 2 | Shipments of products meeting their standards are expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 3 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 4 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 5 | The East Anglians , who are the form team among the top eight , had been outplayed in the first half , when Wolves had half a dozen shots on goal and several others narrowly off target . |
| 6 | The new regulations , requiring a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament , were expected to be enacted in the first half of 1993 and would bring German immigration and asylum provisions broadly in line with those of other West European countries . |
| 7 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
| 8 | Moi gave no indication of the date of a general election , but there was general expectation that polls would be held in the first half of 1992 . |
| 9 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |
| 10 | Six new Homebase stores were opened in the first half with a further new store and distribution depot to opened in the current six months . |
| 11 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 12 | But while seven new licence sales were signed in the first half , this dropped to only two in the second due to currency turmoil , recession and political uncertainty in mainland Europe . |
| 13 | Almost four million people in England and Wales were summonsed in the first half of this year for failing to pay . |
| 14 | Phase 3 of BRAC 's Oral Therapy Extension Programme started in October 1986 and ended in October 1990 , with the unsuccessful trial of the rice-salt solution ( described in Chapter 7 ) being conducted in the first half of 1987 . |
| 15 | Over 300,000 blue whales were killed in the first half of the century and despite 30 years of protection have not yet recovered . |
| 16 | Two Swiss Red Cross workers taken hostage in Lebanon in October 1989 were released in the first half of August . |
| 17 | With a native version of Novell Inc NetWare due on Sparc next year ( UX No 423 ) , Banyan Systems Inc 's rival Vines network operating system is now being ported to the Sun RISC and is expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 18 | The outlook in the UK is still gloomy , McAlpine says , borrowings short-term will rise , and a small loss is anticipated in the first half ; but site costs are down , and site visits are up sharply . |
| 19 | The breadth of the audi alteram partem principle was limited in the first half of this century . |
| 20 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 21 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 22 | But Jolosa was booked in the first half for kicking goalie Mark Davies . |
| 23 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 24 | The AMU Presidential Council , composed of the heads of the member states , was chaired in the first half of 1990 by President Ben Ali of Tunisia , who was succeeded at the end of June by Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who in turn was succeeded on Dec. 31 by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 25 | What with Becky Sieff crusading the country and a succession of charity dinners and film and theatre premieres , close on £300,000 was raised in the first half of 1939 . |
| 26 | However , reference to Figure 2.2 indicates that the BAT share price outperformed the market during the 1980s , although this outperformance was concentrated in the first half of the decade . |
| 27 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 28 | Successful post-war reconstruction was overtaken in the first half of the 1980s by economic depression and the European unemployment crisis . |