Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] second half " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 2 | A Wembley spectator , Busby thought Sunderland were outclassed in the second half but not disgraced . |
| 3 | Domestic developments were dominated during the second half of the year by the Gulf crisis , which emphasized Djibouti 's close relationship with France at a time when it had been striving to build up its image as a non-aligned Arab state . |
| 4 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 5 | I think all goals were scored in the second half . |
| 6 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 7 | The opening piece , Respighi 's symphonic poem Fountains of Rome , was subtly characterised and sensuously played , but the real fireworks were reserved for the second half of the concert . |
| 8 | Although Edinburgh , for whom captain and scrum-half Johnnie Crombie had an outstanding game , were losing only 7-0 at the interval , they were swamped in the second half as Durham ran in five tries and kicked four conversions and a penalty . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Mr Haynes said that a further charge of £100,000 was expected in the second half . |
| 11 | The current-account imbalances in the three largest economies , West Germany , Japan and the USA , shrank more than was expected in the second half of 1989 . |
| 12 | Although conditions were hard the industry was booming in the second half of the 19th century and there were regular jobs for most people . |
| 13 | Of the rest Matthew Cooper played as a fledgling in the All Blacks ' scamper through Japan in 1987 ; Jon Preston had one game in the World Cup last year ; Kevin Schuler appeared briefly as a replacement in France in 1990 ; and Graham Dowd had been the reserve hooker for the World Cup and the home series against the World XV and managed a short time on the field when Richard Loe was injured in the second half of the First Test against Ireland . |
| 14 | To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury . |
| 15 | Opposite at No. 36 is the Lobkovic palace , formerly the palace of the Pernštejn family , which was built in the second half of the 16C and restored in 1651–8 by Carlo Lurago . |
| 16 | The truth was told by a second half in which they monopolised the ball and did n't make one opening . |
| 17 | In terms of world production , OPEC output was estimated over the second half of 1988 and the first half of 1989 to have represented about 34 per cent of the total ; in addition approximately 20 per cent was produced by the Soviet Union and about 15 per cent by the United States , around 5 per cent each by Mexico and China , and about 3 per cent each by the United Kingdom and Canada . |
| 18 | ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors . |
| 19 | Anglo-Norman literature composed in what became an increasingly distinctive Anglo-Norman dialect of French was flourishing by the second half of the twelfth century . |