Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facing the strong wind in the first half , Aldershot defended superbly . |
| 2 | Playing into the strong wind in the first half , Alresford 's tactics were clearly to run all their possession . |
| 3 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 4 | The style as a whole points to the continuing exchange of ideas between England and the Continent and also how at this social level in the first half of the seventh century the paramount members of society employed their own craftsmen to produce exotic display items demonstrating their success in leadership ; it also reflects their success in exchange in acquiring the necessary raw materials in large quantities . |
| 5 | German philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century was dominated by the influence of George Friedrich Hegel , especially his concept of ‘ the dialectic ’ — a special kind of logic which he believed applies to the development of thought , human institutions , and social history . |
| 6 | Steve Clark and Keith Knox scored for Alex Smith 's side in a five-minute spell in the first half before Darren Henderson got a late consolation for the Dumfries side . |
| 7 | There is little doubt about the richness of the British countryside in the first half of the fourth century . |
| 8 | A minute to go , 1–1 , Meek netting in the first half , when an open goal stares Darren Twink in the face . |
| 9 | But it was in the French army of the first half of the century that the mercenaries were most prominent . |
| 10 | Professor Davis has calculated that over 75 per cent of the growth in English exporting over the first half of the eighteenth century depended on either southern Europe or the Americas . |
| 11 | ‘ Salutary neglect ’ is a description that fits the colonial policy of the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century , particularly when it is compared with the fairly active government of the late seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Some historians have seen St Pirmin 's monastic foundations ( the most famous at Reichenau ) , by which Pirmin made an important contribution to the Christianization of the south-west German world in the first half of the eighth century , as an attack upon Boniface 's episcopal authority among the Germans , or at least as the creation of a counter-sphere of influence . |
| 13 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 14 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 15 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
| 16 | Baur was the leader of the ‘ Tübingen school ’ which opened up new lines of study of the New Testament , and was the most widely influential and controversial movement in biblical criticism in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | The growth of GDP , which had averaged 5.4 per cent annual growth in the first half of the 1970s and 0.8 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , went into reverse , dropping on average 5.7 per cent a year over the period from 1981 to 1988 . |
| 18 | In a similar analysis for the first half of the 1970s , Keeble ( 1980 ) showed that the relative importance of these factors had changed . |
| 19 | Recent announcements have warned that the mean increase in global temperature in the first half of the next century could be the greatest ever experienced in human history . |
| 20 | Things matter to the extent that they are significantly new in terms of official Catholic teaching ; that is to say , in comparison with papal teaching or the major textbooks of approved theology of the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 21 | By and large the characteristic enterprise of the first half of the century had been financed privately — e.g. from family assets — and expanded by reinvesting profits , though this might well mean that , with most of capital tied up in this way , the firm might rely a good deal on credit for its current operations . |
| 22 | Maybe , but there 's little doubt that England had missed Richards ' tight control in the first half . |
| 23 | Sales were hit by the drop in retail spending during the first half of 1989 . |
| 24 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 25 | Forces loyal to Aoun engaged in another major confrontation during the first half of 1990 when they fought for control of Christian East Beirut against Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia . |
| 26 | That follows the news today that Caird , the company planning to build the controversial incinerator , have made a large pre-tax loss in the first half of this year . |
| 27 | This year er , there 's been a negative benefit in the first half of two million and there 'll be a positive benefit in the second half of two million . |
| 28 | We restricted Apoel to one good chance in the first half and in the second they created little from open play . |
| 29 | The factoring companies have been heartened by signs of increased demand in the first half of this year after a difficult 1991 . |
| 30 | The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies . |