Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first half of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century . |
| 4 | Egypt : Well Disuq-1 drilled in the first half of 1992 tested only sub-commercial quantities of gas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Shipments of products meeting their standards are expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Avoid over-spending in the first half of the year and set aside as much as you possibly can in the event of any tax demands or unexpected large financial outlays later . |
| 10 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An attractive broadside group are the so-called Beadle and Bellman 's Verses , addressed in the first half of the nineteenth century to such town and city dwellers as ‘ the worthy inhabitants of the Parish of Barnes , Surrey ’ or ‘ the worthy masters and mistresses of the Holborn End Division of the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields ’ and designed to be proclaimed by the public crier or parish bellman . |
| 13 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 14 | A full report on the survey , incorporating the results of the timing exercise and additional data from the questionnaire , will be prepared during the first half of 1993 . |
| 15 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 16 | He/she must not only offer an accurate description of the death-like oppressiveness of the capitalist world as it is developing in the first half of the twentieth century , but must also depict accurately and without facile romanticism or glib sentimentality , the angry and determined political struggle of men and women refusing to acquiesce to the oppressive forces of capitalist society . |
| 17 | Inflation especially in the United States , the United Kingdom , Germany and Italy , accelerated in the first half of 1990 to an average of 4.7 per cent . |
| 18 | Deep slow wave sleep ( Stages 3 and 4 ) predominates in the first half of the night . |
| 19 | The AMU Presidential Council , composed of the heads of the member states , was chaired in the first half of 1990 by President Ben Ali of Tunisia , who was succeeded at the end of June by Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who in turn was succeeded on Dec. 31 by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 20 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 21 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 24 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 25 | His son , Charles Power , wrote a famous guide-book to Madeira which was regularly up-dated during the first half of this century . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is working with IBM and Motorola Inc ( helping IBM with the new PowerPC RISC implementation ) on both hardware and AIX software , so that users of the new version of the Power RISC will all support compatible multi-processing implementations — something should emerge during the first half of next year . |
| 28 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 29 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 30 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |