Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other half , and the reversion in the first half , are held on the ‘ statutory trusts ’ for the issue . |
| 2 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |
| 3 | Prince of Wales had most of the play in the first half and went ahead after 20 minutes . |
| 4 | Last night , we had nearly all the play in the first half , without creating a great deal of clear cut chances . |
| 5 | Because of the exhaustion of the low-cost reserves , uranium prices seem bound to rise in the course of the first half of the next century ( assuming the uranium mining industry is to remain in business ) , but by how much is anyone 's guess . |
| 6 | His Scottish partner up front , Trevor Smith , was in the thick of the action in the first half and opened the scoring on 31 minutes . |
| 7 | He is confident that the new acquisitions will play an important role in future growth , and believes that ‘ the momentum of the first half will be maintained to give a satisfactory outcome for the full year . ’ |
| 8 | With the wind in the first half , ’ Mere applied great pressure which was rewarded with an excellent try by Bannatyne who ran straight through the Mariners defence . |
| 9 | Sudbury had the advantage of the wind in the first half , but when they did press forward failed to unsettled Cornard 's well-knitted defensive combination . |
| 10 | Whereas the eleventh and early twelfth centuries witnessed the emergence of knights in greater numbers in northern France , the title was rare in the south-west until the first half of the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 12 | But Zimbabwe 's example , together with the hope that new seeds might make a difference to humid parts of the continent in the first half of the 1990s ( and to the Sahel in the second half of the decade ) , at least give us something to work for . |
| 13 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought some of the football in the first half was superb again . |
| 15 | IBM Corp 3172 functionality will be provided on the company 's router systems as phase 3 of the plan during the first half of next year , while during the second half there will be an expansion of multiprotocol routing with the inclusion of APPN/NN routing . |
| 16 | Kernigan on loan from Middlesbrugh to Charlton at the moment after his display especially under the siege in the first half , surely they 'll want to sign him . |
| 17 | Jim Gardiner made the breakthrough in the first half , then Roddy Collins and Michael Cash finished things off with further goals in the last ten minutes . |
| 18 | When Mark Proctor volleyed the ball against the bar in the first half perhaps it was a sign it was not going to be Boro 's night . |
| 19 | Colchester played up the hill in the first half and began solidly , their pack pushing Walden back onto the defensive . |
| 20 | Swindon had taken the lead in the first half through striker Maskell . |
| 21 | But it was Leicester who took the lead in the first half , when Walsh headed home Philpotts cross . |
| 22 | London Scottish took the lead in the first half … and that was the only real highlight for the crowd … |
| 23 | Hereford 's hopes of building a winning run came to an end at Doncaster … the Rovers took the lead in the first half when the United defence was asleep … |
| 24 | League leaders Sunderland were held to a 1–1 draw at Whitehaven , who took the lead in the first half through Frank Hatton . |
| 25 | And this after Blackburn had taken the lead in the first half with a goal from Mike who 's since reduced the arrears to three two with a second goal from the penalty spot . |
| 26 | Ireland had deservedly taken the lead in the first half through Brian Smith after good loose play swarmed England . |
| 27 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 28 | I personally think the linesman on the dugout side of the pitch had the best touch of the ball in the first half . |
| 29 | Eager , it seemed , to atone for the embarrassment of Saturday 's 5-2 home defeat by Aston Villa , the London side could have scored three times in the opening nine minutes and went on to dominate the rest of the first half with an ease that pointed to only one result . |
| 30 | Tim Smith could have blown this kick over , but it was downhill then for the rest of the first half . |