Example sentences of "to the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room . |
| 2 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 3 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 4 | Later in the picture , she would die , pressing a mink to the scarred half of her face . |
| 5 | There is no twentieth-century master who belongs to the second half of this century . |
| 6 | Rovers had a splendid start to the second half , reducing an interval deficit of 4-22 to 14-22 with tries from Trevor Clark and Manning , the result of an astute lofted kick from Sharp . |
| 7 | The backfill material contained a considerable amount of pottery , which was stylistically attributable to the second half of the eleventh century AD , along with much burnt clay or daub thought to derive from wattle walls . |
| 8 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 9 | ‘ The barricade is essential to the second half . |
| 10 | The majority are dated to the seventh century , the exception being that from Shrivenham ( Oxfordshire ) which dates to the second half of the sixth century or later ( pers. comm . |
| 11 | Byzantine vessels in contexts dated to the second half of the sixth century are known from the Isle of Wight ( Arnold 1982a ) . |
| 12 | It is a late-third to mid-fourth century group and none of the vessels need have belonged to the second half of the fourth century . |
| 13 | The British figured pottery took the form of colour-coated drinking beakers , the earliest products dating to the second half of the second century . |
| 14 | She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay . |
| 15 | In a five-part polyphonic passage in which an independent cello part is necessary , it is always better to divide the cellos , and to give the lowest part to the second half of the cellos either in actual unison ( pitch permitting ) or in the octave above the double basses . |
| 16 | Many things point to the second half of August . |
| 17 | Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester . |
| 18 | Leading on to the second half I 'd er very quickly like to introduce you to Huw er from er one of the U K's if in fact er worldwide now leading er leading developers of of financial software , and he will be er talking to th talking through to you his experiences er in developing with . |
| 19 | It is anticipated that this shift in profits from the first to the second half of the financial year is likely to continue , reflecting retailers ' ever shortening delivery cycles . |
| 20 | 21 ) , an arrangement of four " L " -shaped panels around a central square which contains an elaborate floral device , is again of very high quality and is also datable to the second half of the century ( pp. 132-133 ) . |
| 21 | Almost everybody throughout history , up to the second half of the nineteenth century , has firmly believed in the opposite — the Conscious Designer theory . |
| 22 | The relative importance given to the second half of this statement is crucial to the argument for a Cornish seat . |
| 23 | Celtic 's whirlwind start to the second half saw Peter Grant and Charlie Nicholas go close , and a Pat McGinley effort from a narrow angle rebound off the post . |
| 24 | Celtic 's whirlwind start to the second half saw Peter Grant and Charlie Nicholas go close , and a Pat McGinley effort from a narrow angle rebound off the post . |
| 25 | A strong start to the second half has seen NAV jump 5.2 per cent to 343.8p , and the shares firmed 3p to 294p . |
| 26 | Arbroath made the best possible start to the second half . |
| 27 | Growth in the year to the second half of 1993 might reach 1.75 per cent , rising to 3 per cent in the first half of 1994 . |
| 28 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 29 | The forecasts are for the year to the first half of 1991 , during which the bulk of the gdp fall took place . |
| 30 | He says that second-half profits will be ‘ broadly similar ’ to the first half , even though there were no real signs of an upturn in the property market . |