Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] the second half " in BNC.

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1 But Mr Lawson has now succeeded in doubling rates since the spring of last year ; we are into the second half of this parliament ; and there can be no certainty that this is the top of the ladder .
2 Several Manchester United players likely to be involved as well and they 're into the second half of their second leg European cup tie in Turkey .
3 It is in the second half , when Helena becomes a quasi-symbolic force for life and renewal that Patricia Kerrigan 's performance comes into its own .
4 In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) .
5 The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year .
6 It was in the second half of the eighteenth century that the presence of black people in Britain began to give rise to recognizable black communities , with a total black population of probably around 10,000 , although some historians have produced even higher estimates .
7 [ It was in the second half of the sixth century that the primitive tragedy practised by the Dionysiac worshippers developed into true drama , and , in the same period , ] the cult was accepted as a public cult in Athens .
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