Example sentences of "the first half [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leeds midfielder Gary McAllister missed a penalty later in the first half during a frustrating spell for Scotland . |
| 2 | When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 3 | Manor took the lead midway through the first half with a well-taken goal by Sean Annells . |
| 4 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 5 | Six new Homebase stores were opened in the first half with a further new store and distribution depot to opened in the current six months . |
| 6 | And this after Blackburn had taken the lead in the first half with a goal from Mike who 's since reduced the arrears to three two with a second goal from the penalty spot . |
| 7 | Eager , it seemed , to atone for the embarrassment of Saturday 's 5-2 home defeat by Aston Villa , the London side could have scored three times in the opening nine minutes and went on to dominate the rest of the first half with an ease that pointed to only one result . |
| 8 | Larne spent most of the first half on the rack , but took a shock lead three minutes from the break when Tom McCourt grabbed his 22nd goal of the season . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is called a ‘ bottom turn ’ and closely resembles the first half of a carve gybe . |
| 12 | The Girls had the third spot in the first half of a bill shared with George Robey , Harry Lauder , Little Titch and Anna Pavlova . |
| 13 | STAR TREK , Spock turns mutineer in the first half of a two-part caper . |
| 14 | The half-a-poster you sent to us was the FIRST half of a two-part poster which appeared in issue 79 of ZZAP ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Europe experienced in the first half of the twentieth century a simultaneous cultural , spiritual and political breakdown . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The first half of the novel is dominated by the girl 's death from leukaemia . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | GEI International , the packaging machinery and special wire and cutting steels manufacturer , lifted profit again in the first half of the year . |
| 27 | For the first half of the last century , most European nations assumed that France would somehow try to repeat the project . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Now , he says he will keep the post until free elections are held , probably in the first half of the coming year . |