Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] half [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sir John Fortescue was to write in the second half of the fifteenth century , ‘ a King 's war is a legal trial by battle [ when ] he seeks the right he can not obtain by peaceful means ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Applications re-written specifically to take advantage of multithreading will begin to appear in the second half of the year , Sun says , but argues that customers can derive significant performance benefits from running existing applications on multiprocessor machines with Solaris 2.2 . |
| 4 | Applications re-written specifically to take advantage of multithreading will begin to appear in the second half of the year , Sun says , but argues customers can derive significant performance benefits from running existing applications on multiprocessor machines with Solaris 2.2 . |
| 5 | We now trade from forty eight locations in France with three more stores due to open in the second half of the financial year . |
| 6 | InterBase 3.2 with support for Japanese , including Kanji and Kana , is scheduled to ship in the first half of next year . |
| 7 | IBM Corp is to license a version of its CICS/6000 CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor to Hewlett-Packard Co , which says it will offer it on its HP9000 Precision Architecture RISC-based Unix machines — but conversion of the IBM product will not be a simple task — it wo n't be ready to ship until the second half of 1993 . |
| 8 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 9 | Further evidence continued to emerge during the second half of 1989 that the world was becoming gradually warmer . |
| 10 | They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh . |
| 11 | Less than a week ago , he said that this congress would strip the party of its ideology and change its name , but it now looks likely that he will have to settle for the second half of the forecast . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In consequence , there was always a scramble to spend in the last half of the financial year when the danger of an underspend was becoming apparent . |
| 16 | Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The actual sales were expected to begin in the second half of 1991 . |
| 19 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |