Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] half [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future of a derelict quarry has been thrown into doubt because of a planning decision made half a century ago . |
| 2 | Goal for weight change To lose half a pound ( 0.25 kg ) of fat . |
| 3 | Branson could spend ten times as much money signing half a dozen acts and never achieve the same effect . |
| 4 | It seems somewhat incongruous that the official programme contains half a page outlining regulations concerning the ‘ prohibition of alcohol and controlled containers within Murrayfield stadium ’ , while at the same time giving over no less than four pages to the advertising of alcohol . |
| 5 | The pond contains half a dozen goldfish and some Orfe and Tench . |
| 6 | Renamo was said to have proposed an army of 24,000 soldiers , with a further 1,000-strong air force and 800-strong navy , with each side contributing half the force . |
| 7 | ‘ We are confident that they will prefer our immediate all cash offer to the SeaCo board 's highly conditional alternative to purchase half the shares at some unspecified future date . ’ |
| 8 | The effect diminished half an hour after sunrise , but was repeated at noon . |
| 9 | Dot watched half a dumpling sliding on to her plate . |
| 10 | Green 's would wan na charge another six hundred pound to spray half a car |
| 11 | The interview lasted half an hour . |
| 12 | He waited there on top of the high dune watching half a dozen matches come through . |
| 13 | Firewood provides half the cooking energy in Indian cities and 70 per cent in villages . |
| 14 | The pound closed half a pfennig higher at 2.8426 after falling to 2.8365 on Monday . |
| 15 | The pound closed half a pfennig higher at Dm2.8426 and was steady against the dollar . |
| 16 | The cause for the closure … arsonists who early last Sunday week set fire to a pile of books in the main school building causing half a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 17 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 18 | but it 's not though , it 's not , it 's her fault for being so bloody stupid and not telling us A , what we 're supposed to be doing and B , the fact that I was not having any lunch to go half an hour , what do you mean ? |
| 19 | To the east of Carthage in Libya sharp disputes between the monarchian followers of Sabellius and upholders of the Logos theology occurred half a century after Tertullian 's time . |
| 20 | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England , tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest 's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north . |
| 21 | With a cellar full of enough cordite to wipe half the island off the map it does seem a bit daft , but my father wo n't let me near the stuff . |
| 22 | The majority of the vineyards are located to the north and north-west of the village commencing half a kilometre north-west of Ambonnay itself , where the land rises to about 20 metres . |
| 23 | PEOPLE in Teesdale are worried about ambulance cover after a vehicle took half an hour to respond to an emergency call . |
| 24 | The Maud Committee thought half a dozen should be enough and it followed that each committee would be concerned with a wider range of matters than the existing committees . |
| 25 | ( f ) A switchable ladder attenuator designed ( see text ) such that its input resistance equals half the load resistance . |
| 26 | Mrs. Fanshawe touched her forehead where the dyed hair showed half an inch of white at the roots . |
| 27 | When the Guardian arrived half an hour later , she plucked it from the letter-box with impatient hands . |
| 28 | There may be others , I 'm guessing , presume that er Mr Hesel Mr Heselton is looking as though he might be welcoming of a strategic site given half a chance . |
| 29 | And — even assuming he could persuade her to drink it — was n't it , well , out of the ordinary to find half a litre of bleach in someone 's stomach ? |
| 30 | The standard measure of this is the half-life ; the time taken by the body to eliminate half the dose taken . |