Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 2 | The left , consistent with its primary language capacity , is sequential and analytic in its style and has often been regarded as the rational half , responsible for the organisation and expression of conscious thought . |
| 3 | Women had either been ignored or treated as the deviant half of humanity . |
| 4 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 5 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 6 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 7 | Domestic developments were dominated during the second half of the year by the Gulf crisis , which emphasized Djibouti 's close relationship with France at a time when it had been striving to build up its image as a non-aligned Arab state . |
| 8 | He remains worried that margin benefits expected for the second half will now be pushed out to next year and has slashed his full-year forecast from £27 million to just £15 million , with £25 million pencilled in for 1993-94 . |
| 9 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 10 | The transporter squeezed between the two halves of the parted face , and came to rest in a large , high-ceilinged , circular room , like the inside of a drum . |
| 11 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |
| 12 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 13 | However , for human visualization it is easiest to think in terms of a family of curved lines leaving the fish through a series of portholes spaced along the front half of the body , all curving round in the water and diving into the fish again at the tip of its tail . |
| 14 | Egypt : Well Disuq-1 drilled in the first half of 1992 tested only sub-commercial quantities of gas . |
| 15 | ‘ Because of the present state of the economy and also because of the seasonal nature of the main businesses , with the large majority of profits usually earned in the second half , it is too early to form a clear view of the outcome for the year , ’ the group added . |
| 16 | Forest had chances to win , a traditionally exciting game , but Kingsley Black missed a series of opportunities before being substituted in the second half . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , one finds that on the whole , ‘ professional ’ courses such as pharmacy , architecture and engineering ( and doubtless law if one classified its trainees as employed ) appear in the top half of Table 3.1 and the bottom half of Table 3.2 , and ‘ academic ’ courses , such as the natural sciences and the ‘ non-applied ’ arts and social sciences , appear in the bottom half of Table 3.1 and the top half of Table 3.2 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , one finds that on the whole , ‘ professional ’ courses such as pharmacy , architecture and engineering ( and doubtless law if one classified its trainees as employed ) appear in the top half of Table 3.1 and the bottom half of Table 3.2 , and ‘ academic ’ courses , such as the natural sciences and the ‘ non-applied ’ arts and social sciences , appear in the bottom half of Table 3.1 and the top half of Table 3.2 . |
| 19 | With a native version of Novell Inc NetWare due on Sparc next year ( UX No 423 ) , Banyan Systems Inc 's rival Vines network operating system is now being ported to the Sun RISC and is expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 20 | Shipments of products meeting their standards are expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 21 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 22 | Currently MainWin can handle only Windows 3.0 programs with 3.1 support expected in the second half . |
| 23 | Sampling is expected in the second half of next year with volume following in early 1994 . |
| 24 | Mr Haynes said that a further charge of £100,000 was expected in the second half . |
| 25 | The current-account imbalances in the three largest economies , West Germany , Japan and the USA , shrank more than was expected in the second half of 1989 . |
| 26 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 27 | Expected in the last half of 1993 , the company is intent on doubling Pentium 's performance and moving three instructions through the 2.2m transistor chip every cycle . |
| 28 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 29 | A Wembley spectator , Busby thought Sunderland were outclassed in the second half but not disgraced . |
| 30 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |