Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 2 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 3 | Next 's 8 p.c. fewer high street shops , to 312 , returned to profit in the second half and sales rose 6 p.c. year-on-year after a 9 p.c. second-half rise . |
| 4 | Franco himself may have realized this , for his erstwhile enthusiasm for Arrese and his project began to wane in the second half of 1956 , as opposition to it became more widespread and vocal among the non-Falangist sectors of the regime . |
| 5 | Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ . |
| 6 | The strain under which Airdrie are operating began to tell in the second half when Falkirk attempted to mount a fightback . |
| 7 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 8 | The returns also show how far those surnames which are peculiarly local in origin had ramified by the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | Alexander I had decided in the second half of 1825 that the international problems which derived from the conflict between Greeks and Turks could not be resolved by the Concert of Europe . |
| 10 | Further evidence continued to emerge during the second half of 1989 that the world was becoming gradually warmer . |
| 11 | But it warned that trading conditions had deteriorated in the second half of last year . |
| 12 | The windmill was sited near the school , but it had disappeared by the second half of the 18th century . |
| 13 | Dowling , in fact , showed great composure under pressure and Farnham were able to regain the defensive security that Cranleigh — chiefly through the pace of Roger Carpenter — had undermined in the first half . |
| 14 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 15 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 16 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 17 | The Fund 's 1990 edition of Primary Commodities : Market Developments and Outlook confirmed that non-fuel commodity prices had declined in the second half of 1989 . |
| 18 | What they allowed themselves to find had to fit logically with the knowledge about sewers they had acquired in the first half of the lesson . |
| 19 | NEC is to develop a special version of its UP 4800 server series for Control Data , with shipments expected to begin in the second half of 1993 . |
| 20 | By 1741 the British version of the cabinet noir , the ‘ Secret Office ’ , was employing nine people ; and its cost tended to increase in the second half of the century . |