Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] half " in BNC.
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1 | The Council of Licensed Conveyancers and the Institute are likely to go for approval at an early date ; it is unlikely , however , that any approvals will be given before the second half of 1993 . |
2 | Cray Research Inc reports that the Space Data and Computing Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has ordered a Cray C98 system : C98s start at around $12m and the new one will be installed in the second half of this year and will be used for Earth and space sciences research , the firm said . |
3 | A full report on the survey , incorporating the results of the timing exercise and additional data from the questionnaire , will be prepared during the first half of 1993 . |
4 | In his New Year address Fiji 's President , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , suggested that Fiji 's new constitution ( guaranteeing political power for the country 's native Melanesian inhabitants ) would be adopted during the latter half of 1990 , and that legislative elections would be held within two years . |
5 | The Nile Delta permit will be relinquished in the second half of 1992 . |
6 | Erm , I seem to remember that when we met earlier in the year and you were looking forward to , to , to this year as a whole , I think you er , indicated that it was going to be a good year and I think you also suggested , if I remember right , that you thought the better part of that improvement would be seen in the second half rather than the first . |
7 | Figure 2.17 illustrates the half-word data transfer operations on the DEC PDP- 10 computer , together with the variations which specify what action is to be performed on the other half of the destination word . |
8 | The temperature could be gauged in the second half at Wembley on Saturday . |
9 | Worksheets could be distributed in the second half of the visit , once the group has had an opportunity to explore and react to the site . |
10 | The field is nearing its economic limit and will be abandoned in the second half of 1992 . |
11 | There are several of those ancient fortified lake dwellings , which we call crannogs , most of them to be found in the northern half of the island , some of them in lochs well up into the hills . |
12 | The company says that as well as launching an Am486 using Intel microcode , it still plans to go ahead with its clean version , which is due to be available in June , and production will be increased during the second half . |
13 | The new regulations , requiring a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament , were expected to be enacted in the first half of 1993 and would bring German immigration and asylum provisions broadly in line with those of other West European countries . |
14 | The chairman , Sir Ernest Harrison , promised that the first half loss would be reversed in the second half , but pressure on margins is not going to go away . |
15 | THE £3 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link and the £300 million Heathrow Express line are to go ahead , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced yesterday.But the future of the £1.7 billion cross-London rail link Crossrail appeared less certain with Mr Lamont saying the scheme was now going to be a joint venture between the public and private sectors.The much-delayed 68-mile Channel Tunnel fast link will not go into London 's King 's Cross station as British Rail hoped , but instead will terminate at neighbouring St Pancras — a less expensive option.But Mr Lamont did say that Government money would be put into the scheme which could be completed by the end of the decade.The 15-mile Paddington-Heathrow fast link — a joint venture between BR and airport operator BAA — will be started later this year and should be finished by the second half of 1997 . |
16 | The second phase of the plan , to be implemented during the second half of the year , will see the company implementing 8209 bridging and router-based SDLC conversion on its 6400/6800 modular system . |
17 | Lemon said that all salary arrears owed to government workers from the last three months of 1988 would be paid in the second half of 1990 . |
18 | Headline is now , for example , acquiring titles for a new paperback fiction imprint , Headline Review , to be launched in the second half of 1994 . |
19 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
20 | Moi gave no indication of the date of a general election , but there was general expectation that polls would be held in the first half of 1992 . |
21 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |