Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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1 | Women had either been ignored or treated as the deviant half of humanity . |
2 | It was enthralling entertainment prompted by United 's need to gamble and attack in the second half . |
3 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
4 | It notes the heavy rain , gales , frost and floods in the latter half of the year , describing them as further proof of increased fluctuation and variability in the climate . |
5 | Spread the bottom half with the cooled apple filling and cover with the top half of the cake . |
6 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
7 | Even today there are those who have doubts about the great burst of prosperity and splendour in the first half of the fourth century manifest in the great villas . |
8 | Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily , as the volumes came to hand , and started on the second half . |
9 | On perusing the pages of White 's 1856 directory it is noticeable how many of these small market towns had been rebuilt and improved during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
10 | The poll , conducted by the Market Research Bureau of Ireland ( MRBI ) and published in the latter half of 1987 , also found that 67% of the people in the Irish Republic saw Irish unity as ‘ something to be hoped for ’ . |