Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 3 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 4 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 5 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 6 | Comrades led 2–1 until the 79th minute , their two goals coming in the first half from David Eddis against one from a Dean Gordon own goal but United hit back late in the game . |
| 7 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 9 | Is it possible to tell us how your advertising revenue performed in the first half on your Westminster Press and F T and whether you 've experienced any improvements in sits vac advertising since the end of the first half ? |
| 10 | If the searched-for item is less than the mid-point ( for words this means the searched-for item comes earlier in the alphabet than the item at the mid-point ) , then the search continues in the first half of the structure , if it is greater , the search continues in the second half of the structure . |
| 11 | Aggregate proceeds realised in the first half of 1992 from the sale amounted to C$83.2 million , yielding a profit of C$38 million . |
| 12 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 13 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 14 | All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year . |
| 15 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 16 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
| 17 | The custom originated in the first half of the nineteenth century and has largely died out , but at Saddleworth a very large procession takes place on the Friday after Whitsuntide . |
| 18 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 19 | As we have noted , surveys on the poll tax conducted in the first half of 1990 mapped not only the considerable public hostility to the tax , but also the fact that the blame for it was firmly laid at the government 's door . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders suggest that of the 36,610 properties repossessed in the first half of this year 45 per cent were voluntary , in the sense that they did not involve a court order . |
| 22 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 23 | It is important to realise that it is these eggs deposited in the first half of the grazing season from April to June , which give rise to the potentially dangerous populations of L3 from July to October . |
| 24 | United 's problems started in the first half when Brentford went ahead with a freak a fluke goal from Gary Blissett … that knocked the stuffing out of them … |
| 25 | The judicial changes implemented in the first half of the nineteenth century represented a break with many eighteenth-century practices . |
| 26 | Several titles are already available with the joint logo , and the first new titles under the arrangement come in the first half of this year . |
| 27 | Turquoise was also present among the grave goods of Fu Hao , consort of a Shang king , in a tomb dating from the first half of the twelfth century B.C. One of several nephrite halberd blades was hafted in a bronze mount studded with turquoise inlay . |
| 28 | This was n't sufficient to make up the ground lost in the first half and the outcome for the year as a whole , you now see . |
| 29 | As in many other countries , popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990 . |
| 30 | Apart from Jason Fogerty , Giants ' tallest players offered little threat inside , while playmaker Jerry Johnson spluttered in the first half . |