Example sentences of "be half a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are half a million Methodists , there tend to be 50 speakers who dominate proceedings I am told , but the democratic ( half ministers — half members ) quota means that some circuits can elect seventeen-year-old girls to be their delegates to the conference . |
| 2 | ‘ There are half a million soldiers out here , ’ she explained , ‘ and cold , wet and hungry they all look alike . ’ |
| 3 | There are half a dozen bows drawn on you If we fight , you will be the first to die . ’ |
| 4 | But for every example of an imaginative triumph over adversity — Roderigo 's ill-fated attempt to murder Cassio was staged in a bath-house for want of the necessary costumes — there are half a dozen examples of night scenes clearly shot in broad daylight , choppy scene transitions , and poorly recorded dialogue that drains Shakespeare 's lines of much of their beauty and meaning . |
| 5 | There are half a dozen songs tonight that have n't been released , and they 're all worth their stuff ; a bonkers instrumental after the Grateful Dead called ‘ Swashbuckler ’ , a flaming flamenco exercise ( ‘ Callin'-All ’ ) and a yearning epic sung by John that took the wired-up angsty quality of The Boys ' ‘ First Time ’ and put in some of Roy Orbison 's operatic noodlings for good measure . |
| 6 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 7 | The street price of that little lot , cut down into 40-milligram bags , would be half a million pounds . |
| 8 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 9 | The opera was to be half a triumphant progress of a great queen through history ( and how appropriate that it should contain , in Act Two , a Royal Progress ) , and half a story of an old woman disappointed by a selfish man . |
| 10 | Why does the Minister think that — as the hon. Member for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) said — those having a close knowledge of adult education , including the voluntary sector , women 's institutes and members of the Conservative party , are so deeply unconvinced by the Minister 's replies that there were half a million signatures to a petition opposing the Government 's proposals ? |
| 11 | In Peru , there were half a million laws , some conflicting , but all administrative . |
| 12 | And they were half a good smile , and they did not tell who 's ninety two . |
| 13 | It opened out into the infirmary : There were half a dozen prisoners in the beds ; other men in white overalls moved among them , performing their duties . |
| 14 | Then men burst into view under the trees , and there were half a dozen others there with him , their swords shining in the moon . |
| 15 | There were half a dozen men outside the gates , engaged in a noisy altercation . |
| 16 | But I knew that there were half a dozen eyes watching down their machine-guns . |
| 17 | There were half a dozen cards waiting on the mat , and a couple of letters . |
| 18 | Ahead of her were half a dozen people , two of them pushing trolleys laden with luggage . |
| 19 | A long way ahead of me , on a narrow farm road , were half a dozen cows . |
| 20 | The health union negotiators said the award was ‘ totally unacceptable ’ Judith Carter , the unions ' lead negotiator and national officer for Cohse , described the award as a ‘ derisory insult to Britain 's half a million nurses ’ . |
| 21 | The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet . |
| 22 | A bank is taking court action over the former Tory Party chairman 's half a million pound overdraft . |
| 23 | Guy sent it , gee look that 's half a million quid . |
| 24 | And it 's half a blooming hour were n't it ? |
| 25 | During our ‘ inspection tour ’ I had heard a fair amount of noise from the garden , and now Miss Sowerby announced , ‘ There 's half a dozen patients , Doctor , including one who 's hurt his head badly . ’ |
| 26 | investigates something , and there 's half a dozen people in the group to give their opinion , it 's not what worth the paper it 's printed on . |
| 27 | That 's half a billion pounds every year . |
| 28 | To take just one example : people still grossly underestimate the size of the language 's vocabulary — the most widely quoted figure is half a million words or so — an estimate based on the total headwords found in either the OED or Webster 's Third New International , which each contains around that number . |
| 29 | The dose is half a 5 ml teaspoonful . |
| 30 | And erm there was half a dozen shops and quite a few , spent most of me life there . |