Example sentences of "[be] half " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 2 | OST students do n't wake up till they are half way through the second year , ’ said Paul Davies with the weary air of a man staring post-graduation penury in the face . |
| 3 | Autobacs ' batteries are half the price of those sold in an ordinary garage . |
| 4 | Otherwise they are half a mile away and it is ridiculous . |
| 5 | Are half so lovely as my Father 's Field , |
| 6 | Once you uncover the cause , the theory goes that you are half way to solving the particular problem that concerns you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The attitudes of authors of stories the young read or hear , whether prejudiced or condescending or exaggeratedly ‘ socially aware ’ , are readily perceived and are influential , even when they are half hidden . |
| 9 | A man 's appetites are half the man , and must be known if you would understand him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yours are half down . ’ |
| 11 | At only 12″ ( 30cm ) in size the plants are half the height of those from over 100 years ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They can be used on Sega hardware but are half the price . |
| 14 | Every Monday we are half looking over our shoulders to see if there is a new man in the job . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ In fact , there are half a dozen good Brits out there . |
| 16 | Fruit and vegetables are half the price of home and sacks of oranges and lemons are virtually given away . |
| 17 | Children under 12 sharing with two adults are half price . |
| 18 | Try to give the impression you are half way through doing a domestic chore . |
| 19 | The picturesque village and castle of Glamis ( a royal residence since 1374 and the family home of the Earl of Strathmore ) are half an hour from Dundee . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The technology requires less capital investment and about half the production time , and the panels are half the price , the company claims . |
| 22 | This makes one coherent line of argument , where at present there are half a dozen . |
| 23 | Or : ‘ Manliness can only be taught by men , and not by those who are half men , half old women . ’ |
| 24 | We are half an hour from Cardiff and two and a half hours from London along the M4 . |
| 25 | You are half Italian , are n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | There are half a dozen about the place — I could find them . |
| 27 | There are half a dozen bows drawn on you If we fight , you will be the first to die . ’ |
| 28 | Karrimor is promoting its Adventure Travel range , which includes the excellent Tinamou trousers ( £33 ) , and Rohan has just brought out the tracksuit-style Gobi pants ( £35 ) , which are half the weight of their original Bags . |
| 29 | As the crow flies , they are half a mile away . |
| 30 | In the Barton pavement this is not so : in sensitive areas , e.g. the face of Orpheus , the tesserae are well selected and are half the size of those in a comparable position in the former . |