Example sentences of "half [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Traditional Burmese culture centred upon the monasteries , found in every village and town , so that in the 1920s more than half the males in Burma were literate in their mother tongue ( compared to a literacy rate of 13. 9 per cent in India ) . |
2 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
3 | Three of the studies in which she has been involved — that described here , a follow-up of normal young black men , and a follow-up of Vietnam veterans — have supported her contention that deviant behaviour of various types in childhood or adolescence forms a syndrome which tends to continue in about half the cases to adulthood . |
4 | It is extremely worrying that in non-diabetics half the cases of hypertension are undiagnosed , half those diagnosed are untreated and of the half that are treated half are inadequately controlled ( WHO Expert Committee on Hypertension , 1978 ) . |
5 | Half the cases of NGU are caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and another 20 per cent by infection with a mycoplasma called Ureaplasma urealyticum . |
6 | This is a salutary warning , for it is said Mount Kenya claims as many as half the cases of pulmonary oedema in the world each year . |
7 | Once appointed , almost everyone was briefed , mainly by their head teacher but also in about half the cases by their class teacher . |
8 | And at least half the cases in the black community may go unreported , warns Padayachee . |
9 | At this time he only ran about half the companies in Belfast . |
10 | Most persistent of all was the hammering of the woodpeckers , for it was as though the dying of the trees had drawn woodpeckers from half the counties of England . |
11 | Last week his treasury under-secretary , Lawrence Summers , said that America would write off half the debts of 18 of the poorest countries in Africa . |
12 | It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located . |
13 | It has been shown earlier ( p. 31 ) that up to half the bones of their prey are destroyed by even the least destructive owl species , as the MNI is reduced by up to one third . |
14 | For protection against bad debts , less than half the firms in the survey operated the sales ledger on secured terms and nearly two-thirds did not use credit insurance . |
15 | Economic bewilderment in the United States , uninspired government in Britain , unemployment , gloom , insuperable problems everywhere , unspeakable things happening to men and women inside half the countries in the world . |
16 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
17 | Half the teachers in the school think say me a half-breed so they do n't too bother me . |
18 | Nonetheless , just over half the casualties among bus passengers are suffered by elderly people and there is a separate section which relates to this specific problem . |
19 | Progress in further education has been rapid , to the extent that a 1985 national survey undertaken by the National Bureau for Handicapped Students for the DES , and published as Catching Up ? , showed that more than half the colleges in England ran special courses for 16 to 19 year olds with moderate learning difficulties . |
20 | ‘ All boxers were weighed in , but because there was no chance of getting through a 28bout programme at a workmen 's club in one night , we decided to take half the bouts to another venue two nights later . |
21 | Oil provides 40% of Norway 's export earnings , and the government gives Statoil , the state-owned oil company , half the contracts for exploiting Norwegian oil . |
22 | Boy had spent half the hours of each night awake , listening to O talking in his sleep . |
23 | The disadvantage is that , on average , half the records on the track need to be shunted up ( in this example records 113 , 1 14 and 116 have been moved ) , and the overflow area will also require updating . |
24 | If half the records on a track have to be moved one at a time , and a device revolution is required for each movement , additions can take a great deal of time . |
25 | During this period a regular wintering flock established itself at Chichester gravel pits , which reached a peak of 43 birds in December 1969 and accounted for about half the records for each winter . |
26 | In regard to TEC courses , for example , these are offered by over thirty Welsh colleges , and the Polytechnic of Wales and about half the Institutes of Higher Education play a major role in the provision of courses leading to TEC higher awards . |
27 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
28 | The place was called the Eagle like half the taverns in Germany . |
29 | About half the tables in the hotel dining-room were occupied but Wycliffe , with Kersey and Lucy Lane , was placed in one of the window embrasures which gave them all the privacy they could have wished . |
30 | Fewer than half the responses from each group contained deductive markers , and in the open-ended task fewer than half the responses in each group contained causal connectives . |