Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forwards were again beaten in the line-outs during the first half . |
| 2 | The tourists had looked decidedly ordinary at times during the first half , but combined more fluently in the second to run up their most convincing victory to date , albeit a hollow one . |
| 3 | The tax remissions of the first half of the fifteenth century show that some of the villages which later disappeared were granted substantial reliefs , although this was not universal . |
| 4 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |
| 5 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 6 | There was a strong diagonal wind in favour of the Borderers in the first half and they turned round 12-3 ahead , although territorially the game was more even . |
| 7 | Goals in the first half by Ian Stewart , the former Northern Ireland international , and captain Tony English , with a 70th-minute penalty by player-manager Roy McDonough , gave the Essex club a comfortable cushion for the second leg at the Moss Rose Stadium next Friday . |
| 8 | The Sappers achieved their triumph with two goals in the first half , by Lockwood ( 11 minutes ) and Alex Nangle ( 31 minutes ) . |
| 9 | Lee Fagan scored no less than four goals in the first half , one with a great shot from outside the area . |
| 10 | The Frenchman 's exceptional talents might have been rewarded with two goals in the first half here in the Neckarstadion . |
| 11 | In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute . |
| 12 | Billingham who play Blyth in the League Cup semi-final tomorrow night , lost by the same scoreline at home to Former Darlington player Kevin Stonehouse , who left South Bank during the week , scored both goals in the first half . |
| 13 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 14 | Norwich City and Swindon 's tie at Carrow Road was also without goals in the first half , but Swindon 's Lorenzo was given his marching orders . |
| 15 | Long vacation sittings The court sat in various strengths in the first half of August and the second half of September with judges available for truly urgent matters during the remainder of the vacation . |
| 16 | John Hunt , the former Chelmsford forward , had three good opportunities in the first half , the first effort being well saved by goalkeeper Cheesewright . |
| 17 | He miscued a relatively simple penalty in the sixth minute and spurned the chance to have a go at three other kickable opportunities in the first half . |
| 18 | He was sentimental and politically naïve , and the outstanding British boxer at the heavier weights in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | An Indian External Affairs Ministry official said on June 18 that India had agreed to a meeting of Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries in the first half of July to discuss reducing tension on the border . |
| 20 | Among the rugs is one of only four known Esari prayer rugs from the first half of the nineteenth century , which is expected to bring £6–8,000 ( $10–14,000 ) . |
| 21 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 22 | Isochronous Ethernet , which can carry voice , video , image and data at speeds up to 16Mbps , will be incorporated into IBM 's family of ValuePoint personal computers by the first half of next year , Joe Panella , programme manager for IBM 's Entry Systems Technologies Division in Boca Raton , Florida told US PC Week . |
| 23 | The game was slow and low scoring and after seven minutes of the first half , Arena had scored only four points to the visitors ' ten . |
| 24 | Trinity held an early 6-4 lead , but were hit with two tries in the final six minutes of the first half as Saints finally clicked into gear . |
| 25 | Well folks this was not a classic in fact the first 40 minutes of the first half was utterly crap . |
| 26 | The following examples taken at random from accounts of the first half of the 19th Century show how the mine costs were arrived at and how the men were paid . |
| 27 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 29 | The group opened 14 new supermarkets during the first half of its financial year including two sites in Knotty Ash and Upton which have created more than 500 local new jobs between them . |
| 30 | In between time as I say we 'd had 's header wide which was one of the mysteries of the first half . |