Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the 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 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 3 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This cash outflow occurred in the first half of the year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As in many other countries , popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990 . |
| 16 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 17 | The sale was notable both in content and in consignors : more pieces from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson ; a number of lots from the Luton Hoo Wernher family collection ; from John Kluge ; and sixty lots from the Meikleour Estate Trust which comprises the celebrated collection of furniture assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by the comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie , natural son of Talleyrand , and his wife , Margaret , Baroness Keith and Nairne . |
| 18 | Jews and the ‘ Jewish Question , were mentioned as such neither in Hitler 's New Year exhortation to his Party at the beginning of 1932 , nor in his notorious speech to the Düsseldorfer Industrieklub in January , nor in his ‘ Appeal to the Nation ’ , sold as a record in July and typical of his election addresses in the first half of the year . |
| 19 | The decision , taken in advance of the fourth party congress scheduled for the first half of 1991 , was thought to be primarily a cost-cutting exercise in response to the deepening economic crisis , as the country 's preferential trading terms with the Soviet Union and other COMECON countries were about to expire ; commentators also viewed the changes as concentrating power within the party in fewer hands . |
| 20 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 21 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 22 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 23 | United 's goal came in the first half … top marks for winger Max Nicholson … he kept control … kept his head and then smashed it home … low and hard … |
| 24 | Did n't we have a perfectly good penalty appeal disallowed in the first half ? |
| 25 | Crusaders had nothing of note to show in the first half apart from a drive lofted over the bar by Stephen Lynch from Burrows ' free kick in the second minute and a double save by Distillery keeper Steve Collins from Steven Livingstone in the 31st minute . |
| 26 | The medical profession ignored family planning in the first half of the century , only speaking to condemn it . |