Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 2 | On being granted freedom of the guild in 1922 Llewellyn Davies singled out three campaigns , all of which came in the second half of her term of office when the guild was emerging as an influential body and could build upon the experience of the earlier struggles — the attempt to bring cooperation within the reach of the poorest , minimum wages for women employees in cooperative societies , and reforms in married women 's lives , in particular the inclusion of maternity benefit in the 1911 National Insurance Act ( Gaffin and Thoms 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Modern socialism , however , is a reaction to the Industrial Revolution which began in the second half of the eighteenth century : in particular to the advent of the machine and the factory , the rapid growth of population and urbanisation , the payment of low wages and the existence of sporadic unemployment , and to the kind of society which industrialisation created which was considered by many as inhuman , unjust and divisive . |
| 4 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 5 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 6 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 7 | You 've shown that you 've moved erm , substantially towards variable debt but there is obviously an outburst currency impact , you said in the first half . |
| 8 | No I do n't think so , everybody 's disappointed , especially after the way we played in the first half , but erm on our second half performance , I suppose we can just count ourselves lucky we come away with a point . |
| 9 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 10 | ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside . |
| 11 | ‘ We improved in the second half and I was very pleased with our teamwork , with everybody pulling for each other . |
| 12 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 13 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 14 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 15 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 16 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 17 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 18 | They played throughout the second half in peeved mood , allowing Blackburn to assume the dictating role with Gordon Cowans prompting from midfield and Speedie in predatory form up front . |
| 19 | They showed in the first half why they were the bookies ’ favourites , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I think he he had a really good first half I think it like , I think that to be fair , apart from Coleman an Southgate everybody faded in the second half did n't they ? |
| 21 | Rangers had lost some of the invention they displayed in the first half , but still had Ferdinand eagerly searching for a goal . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match . |
| 24 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 25 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |