Example sentences of "[subord] the second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I thought the first half was funnier than the second half . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | BP has excellent potential but given uncertainty over first-half earnings any recovery will have to wait until the second half . |
| 5 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that houses for the rural working class really began to improve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It was not until the second half of the 1950s that autarchy was definitively superseded by a firm commitment to international capitalism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | until the second half , in the second half they got |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | In bar 3 the G begins a ‘ transposed ’ group of fourths , while the second half of bar 4 returns to the first grouping , which then continues to the end of the example : |
| 20 | Centre Since the second half of the nineteenth century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists , especially the British , to Egypt . |
| 21 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 22 | York finally produced a win for the first time since the second half of November but only by 1110 against a side who went desperately close to clinching a late victory themselves . |
| 23 | Arsenal had no choice but to attack as soon as the second half began . |
| 24 | Naturally , as the second half of the variations is a retrograde of the first half , all the above are then reversed . |
| 25 | Not all went well as the second half began . |
| 26 | This war , the continuing conflict in Vietnam and successive wars in Africa , the Middle East and Central and South America were the flashpoints of the constant process of east–west confrontation which characterized international politics as the second half of the twentieth century opened . |
| 27 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 28 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | Just as the second half got underway , Milton 's goal keeper , Paul Whittington received a leg injury and there was some anxious faces before he continued after a lengthy stoppage . |