Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the first half " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 2 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 3 | Egypt : Well Disuq-1 drilled in the first half of 1992 tested only sub-commercial quantities of gas . |
| 4 | With a native version of Novell Inc NetWare due on Sparc next year ( UX No 423 ) , Banyan Systems Inc 's rival Vines network operating system is now being ported to the Sun RISC and is expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 5 | Shipments of products meeting their standards are expected in the first half of 1994 . |
| 6 | Mr Runciman said the first warning of problems came in August when it was realised that a major contract expected in the first half of the financial year was not going to materialise . |
| 7 | Several titles are already available with the joint logo , and the first new titles under the arrangement come in the first half of this year . |
| 8 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 9 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 10 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 11 | But Jolosa was booked in the first half for kicking goalie Mark Davies . |
| 12 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 13 | He should have been at least booked in the first half , for a nasty and ‘ professional ’ foul . |
| 14 | The custom originated in the first half of the nineteenth century and has largely died out , but at Saddleworth a very large procession takes place on the Friday after Whitsuntide . |
| 15 | An attractive broadside group are the so-called Beadle and Bellman 's Verses , addressed in the first half of the nineteenth century to such town and city dwellers as ‘ the worthy inhabitants of the Parish of Barnes , Surrey ’ or ‘ the worthy masters and mistresses of the Holborn End Division of the Parish of St. Giles in the Fields ’ and designed to be proclaimed by the public crier or parish bellman . |
| 16 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 19 | Neither goalkeeper was seriously threatened in the first half , with the exception of a speculative 25-yard drive in the 15th minute by Love , who was making his first-team debut for the Edinburgh club . |
| 20 | TONY James , two-try hero of Nottingham Rugby League Club 's first win in 18 months on Sunday , has been detained in hospital at Barrow with internal injuries suffered in the first half . |
| 21 | They had one shot in the first half and that was seen off by Paul Reece . |
| 22 | The AMU Presidential Council , composed of the heads of the member states , was chaired in the first half of 1990 by President Ben Ali of Tunisia , who was succeeded at the end of June by Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid who in turn was succeeded on Dec. 31 by the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi . |
| 23 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 26 | The East Anglians , who are the form team among the top eight , had been outplayed in the first half , when Wolves had half a dozen shots on goal and several others narrowly off target . |
| 27 | His son , Charles Power , wrote a famous guide-book to Madeira which was regularly up-dated during the first half of this century . |
| 28 | The biographical sources for this period are neither detailed nor accurate enough to allow a close analysis of the degree to which the system had become elaborated in the first half of the sixteenth century , but the broader outlines may certainly be perceived and seem to confirm that something like the provisions of the Kanunname were operating by the early years of that century . |
| 29 | Most of the works produced in the first half of the century portray a period of social and religious cataclysm , which is arguably compatible with the archaeology of the north-eastern provinces , where evidence for decline in the cities , towns and villas , and dramatic changes in burial practices , gives a picture of disruption . |
| 30 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |