Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millwall were a disappointment in the first half ; they never played . |
| 2 | Following the example of the Collings , the divergence of type was continued by the Booth family of Killesby and Warlaby , Yorkshire , who in 1790 began to breed the Teeswater for fleshiness ( and were still doing so in 1919 ) , and Thomas Bates of Kirklevington in Yorkshire , born in 1775 , who bred for milk , both families making full use of Colling stock in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Although rarely seen as an attacking force in the first half , the Whites , nevertheless , led 1–0 at half-time thanks to Billy Totten 's eighth minute goal , a tragedy for home keeper Declan Devine . |
| 4 | Derby may be flash with their money ; they were certainly flash with their football in the first half . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought some of the football in the first half was superb again . |
| 6 | Before entering into a discussion of the reasons for the decline of the organized networks , and of the patterns of cattle theft in the first half of the twentieth century , 1 shall first discuss in some detail the administrative policies which affected cattle stealing in its heyday . |
| 7 | While Bayfield said he was disappointed with the results , he was pleased to see the London W company returning to profit after a small loss in the first half . |
| 8 | That follows the news today that Caird , the company planning to build the controversial incinerator , have made a large pre-tax loss in the first half of this year . |
| 9 | Bristol City 1 Middlesbrough 1ANDREW COLE , on loan from Arsenal , saved Bristol City last night by equalising in the 66th minute against Middlesbrough after the visitors seemed to have taken command in the first half . |
| 10 | In view of the rapid drop in morale in the first half of 1944 — with a short interruption in the first half of June — and the evidently growing unpopularity of the Nazi regime , the registered popular response to news of the plot against Hitler appears surprising . |
| 11 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 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 | The game finished 1-1 with Peter Shearer scoring for the league side in the first half and then with just 7 minutes to go , Town teenager Christer Warren , a Bournemouth boy would you believe , scored the equaliser . |
| 14 | The referee was on the Lions ' side in the first half , before finding that their style did not suit him . |
| 15 | Manager Frank Gray perhaps had a point after the game when he said that luck did n't smile kindly on his side , but it must also be said that Quakers did not utilise the strong wind in the same forthright manner as the home side in the first half . |
| 16 | That trend is demonstrated in a sales bonanza which saw 142,000 people in the UK opting for a diesel car in the first half of this year . |
| 17 | The small-scale attack on a Moroccan observation post in the Dahlou region resulted in the death of four Moroccan soldiers , according to a Polisario statement issued on Sept. 30 , and was followed by much heavier fighting in the first half of October ( see p. 36988 ) . |
| 18 | Forward sales for completion in the first half of this year are sufficient to meet internal targets , Mr Maunders said . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Facing the strong wind in the first half , Aldershot defended superbly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Playing into the strong wind in the first half , Alresford 's tactics were clearly to run all their possession . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 25 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This year er , there 's been a negative benefit in the first half of two million and there 'll be a positive benefit in the second half of two million . |
| 28 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 29 | But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time . |
| 30 | But his second title in three years came in 1977 when , after an intensely close battle in the first half of the season with South African Jody Scheckter and American Mario Andretti , Lauda pulled clear to win the title with 17 points to spare . |