Example sentences of "the first half of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first half of a concert which spanned the gamut from Expressionism to Impressionism , the hall 's resonance favoured the spare lines of Webern 's Op 6 while proving cruelly analytical in Ravel 's Sheherazade . |
| 2 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 3 | This is called a ‘ bottom turn ’ and closely resembles the first half of a carve gybe . |
| 4 | The Girls had the third spot in the first half of a bill shared with George Robey , Harry Lauder , Little Titch and Anna Pavlova . |
| 5 | STAR TREK , Spock turns mutineer in the first half of a two-part caper . |
| 6 | The half-a-poster you sent to us was the FIRST half of a two-part poster which appeared in issue 79 of ZZAP ! |
| 7 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 8 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 9 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 10 | Another development during the first half of the 1980s hastened the decline in ordinary charter-train operation : the wholesale withdrawal of ageing steamheated 90mph Mk 1 coaching stock from which such trains were usually formed . |
| 11 | Europe experienced in the first half of the twentieth century a simultaneous cultural , spiritual and political breakdown . |
| 12 | STRONG demand from other segments of the construction market left Hewden Stuart , Britain 's largest plant hire group , virtually untouched by current problems in housebuilding in the first half of the year . |
| 13 | The first half of the novel is dominated by the girl 's death from leukaemia . |
| 14 | This would help protect Jaguar from fluctuations in the dollar-sterling exchange rate — the principal factor behind the collapse in its pre-tax profits in the first half of the year to £1.2m . |
| 15 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 16 | Figures for the first half of the year from the Building Societies Association showed that only around 54,360 people were in arrears with their mortgages . |
| 17 | The public perceived enormous Conservative stress on defence in the Pre-Campaign Wave and again in the latter half of the campaign , but much less in the first half of the campaign . |
| 18 | GEI International , the packaging machinery and special wire and cutting steels manufacturer , lifted profit again in the first half of the year . |
| 19 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 20 | This followed the announcement that the corporation made pre-tax profits of £58million in the first half of the year , from April to September , against £4million in the first half of 1988 . |
| 21 | Post Office Counters , the business which includes all sub-post offices in the country , made pre-tax profits of £16million in the first half of the year . |
| 22 | Now , he says he will keep the post until free elections are held , probably in the first half of the coming year . |
| 23 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 24 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 25 | Because of the exhaustion of the low-cost reserves , uranium prices seem bound to rise in the course of the first half of the next century ( assuming the uranium mining industry is to remain in business ) , but by how much is anyone 's guess . |
| 26 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 27 | Infant mortality doubled in Zambia during the first half of the 1980s . |
| 28 | Every qualified projection of climate change and population growth indicates a crisis which will grow in seriousness through the first half of the twenty-first century . |
| 29 | The seventh five-year plan just ended may have had its ups and downs , producing high growth in the first half of the plan 's period , followed by inflation and then austerity in the second half , but overall it was a success : the economy grew by 7.5% a year , incomes for city-dwellers almost doubled and last year 's grain harvest was the biggest ever . |
| 30 | County NatWest calculates that in the first half of the year to September 1991 , Hanson made £150m interest on its cash pile and £60m-70m from selling a subsidiary — in all , 37% of its total pre-tax profits of £588m . |