Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 2 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 3 | Arsenal lost Danish international Jensen with a hip injury and England defender Adams in the second half but still have no real excuses . |
| 4 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 5 | It was even Steven in the second half , but towards the end Gloucester roared into life . |
| 6 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 7 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 8 | Not to be outdone , Liverpool defender Steve Staunton capably filled the striking boots of Ian Rush for the second half , scoring all three goals in their 3-0 win over Wigan for an 8-2 aggregate result . |
| 9 | Although essentially the poor man 's housecow in Ireland , the breed was exported to England in the second half of the nineteenth century to become the rich man 's pet , favoured for its dainty good looks . |
| 10 | They 've got ta get in there , brush and wash themselves down and come in with renewed vigour and really have a go at Blackburn in the second half . |
| 11 | Manager Dick Graham brought Jackie Bannister to Selhurst Park on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United in July 1965 , having assessed this combative wing-half or full-back at close quarters when the pair were at The Hawthorns in the early 1960s , and Jackie certainly became a valued member of Palace 's 2nd Division defences under Mr Graham in the second half of that decade , missing only one game in two seasons between August 1966 and May 1968 . |
| 12 | Bill Glazier was Palace 's aptly named and superb goalkeeper throughout most of our sojourn in Division Three , 1961–64 , and he was ever-present during our praiseworthy recovery under Dick Graham in the second half of 1962–63 , then in the magnificent promotion season of 1963–64 when the number of goals conceded was easily the lowest in our Division . |
| 13 | The beating was made worse by two crazy own goals , Mark Carlisle putting the first past his own keeper in the fourth minute and Stephen Young looping a spectacular back header over Grant in the second half . |
| 14 | Arsenal had no option but to take the attack to Oldham in the second half and Rhodes had to save from Thomas , Dixon and Quinn , but when a magnificent ball by Bunn sent Milligan streaking for goal he was hauled back by O'Leary , who was booked . |
| 15 | Half time — Malone 0 Greystones 8 Adrian Bush came on for Willis in the second half and made an immediate impact with a 40 second minute penalty and then a splendid forty metre touch clearance . |
| 16 | Bari punished Pompey in the second half when Caglianelli and Alessio struck twice in 40 seconds , with Capocchiano adding a late third . |
| 17 | A good English account of it was given by the Poet Chaucer in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 18 | THE PURCHASE OF half a mile of track by Avon Valley Railway members signals the start of the railway 's long awaited southern extension and the hope that passengers will be able to steam towards Bath during the second half of 1993 . |
| 19 | Obviously the NZRFU could not fit in a tour to South Africa in the second half of that heavy programme . |
| 20 | Wright continued to dazzle Ipswich in the second half but it was Campbell who completed a brilliant hat-trick . |
| 21 | The resulting degree of demographic and socio-economic polarization at regional , sub-regional and local scales is the central feature of the many changes which have affected the geography of the UK in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | And so it proved , with a blood-stained Williams replaced by John Berrington in the second half . |
| 23 | The unification of Italy and of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century was a belated achievement by the bourgeoisie in those countries of a large , efficiently organized modern state , essential for the rapid development of capitalist production , such as already existed in most of Western Europe and in the US . |
| 24 | It was mostly East Grinstead in the second half with Leman being denied by Thompson twice and new England sensation Mahmood Bhatti shooting wide twice when well placed . |
| 25 | Beyond , fortress-like , rises the Church of Our Lady Before the Týn built by the workshop of Peter Parler in the second half of the 14C . |
| 26 | Whelan was felled early on by Ball who should have walked then , and who did similar to McAllister in the second half . |
| 27 | Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough , however , were overhauled by Wirral in the second half of the fixture and had to be content with second place . |
| 29 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 30 | United took off skipper , Andy Melville for the second half , but they were down and out when full-backs Garry Smart and Mike Ford got in each other ; s way and produced an own goal . |