Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 2 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 3 | In very general terms the western half of Britain is much higher , wetter , and more acid than the eastern half and the northern half colder than the South ( see Figure 1 ) . |
| 4 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 5 | I thought the first half was funnier than the second half . |
| 6 | Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time . |
| 7 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 8 | BP has excellent potential but given uncertainty over first-half earnings any recovery will have to wait until the second half . |
| 9 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 10 | On this point they have much in common with travellers from the past : the word ‘ travel ’ comes from ‘ travail ’ and until the second half of the nineteenth century travel was such hard and dangerous work that few people contemplated it . |
| 11 | However , Merrow who had already been relegated , put up a spirited display and it was not until the second half that Haslemere gained any real control . |
| 12 | It was not until the second half of the eighteenth century that any systematic excavation of an early Anglo-Saxon site , a cemetery , took place . |
| 13 | The market research group reckons it wo n't be until the second half of next year that Unix will achieve the degree of functionality needed to match proprietary systems as viable , enterprise-wide server platform , ESP . |
| 14 | It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that houses for the rural working class really began to improve . |
| 15 | As a tort , however , it was little developed until the second half of the nineteenth century and the law remained obscure until the decision of the House of Lords in Crofter Hand-Woven Harris Tweed Co . |
| 16 | All such activities paid dividends in the sense that , until the second half of the seventies , there was almost no questioning of the Shah 's priorities or stability in the American press or congress . |
| 17 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 18 | Demand was not expected to improve until the second half of the year , despite gross capital investment ( which had risen by 5 per cent in 1989 compared with 1988 , but was down by 30 per cent compared with 1980 ) . |
| 19 | It was not until the second half of the 1950s that autarchy was definitively superseded by a firm commitment to international capitalism . |
| 20 | Until the second half of the century even the greatest powers still occasionally made use of multi-member embassies and there was still some surviving feeling that a ruler was particularly honoured by receiving a group of ambassadors rather than an individual . |
| 21 | until the second half , in the second half they got |
| 22 | the point is Liverpool spent er ninety minutes over in Italy and forty five minutes in Anfield to penetrate their defence , it was n't until the second half last night that they got anywhere near through , through , through the solid block of the defence |
| 23 | It was not until the first half of the fourteenth-century that Azzone Visconti reinforced the structure with walls . |
| 24 | Machinery was not widely introduced until the latter half of the century , as wages rose due to migration to the towns . |
| 25 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 26 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 27 | While the other half supported the society 's worthy aims ; one wealthy admirer even offered a donation of $400,000 , which had to be declined as outside donations were apparently prohibited according to the terms under which SINA had been established . |
| 28 | After all , from the same set of statistics , half the politicians in the country will instruct you to break open the champagne and dance in the streets , while the other half will suggest an honourable stroll onto the balcony with a pistol to the temple . |
| 29 | When asked at what level unitary authorities should be created , the results were evenly split : around half the sample favoured them at broadly district level while the other half preferred regional level or expressed no preference . |
| 30 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |