Example sentences of "be half " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 2 | There had been talk of privatisations worth $16m ; in the event the take will be half that . |
| 3 | Crowds are manageable , hotel rates , even at the swankiest resorts , can be half their winter levels , and golfers ' greens fees are drastically reduced . |
| 4 | The Kasbah , and other centres such as Metro and Aguila Roja , are excellent for duty free goods such as cameras and audio equipment , which can often be half the price they are in the UK . |
| 5 | Self-understanding is not in itself going to bring about changes , but it can be half the battle in recognizing what is happening early enough and encouraging you to do something about it . |
| 6 | The length of lessons will vary from teacher to teacher , but the shortest will be half an hour and the longest will be an hour . |
| 7 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 8 | ‘ It wo n't be half the fun , but I daresay we 'll manage . ’ |
| 9 | Pure cotton plain dye table linens , garden furniture , selected clothing and toys , sports equipment and confectionery will all be half price . |
| 10 | She waited thus for what she judged to be half an hour , moving a few steps to and fro to keep warm whenever the coast was clear . |
| 11 | Oz and Pommieland may be half a world apart in distance , but we are joined by a bond of friendship which ignores the distance between us . |
| 12 | Bill used to be half of a double act with Dave Allen . |
| 13 | b ) If such notice is given or the employment is so terminated after nine months and within 15 months , the repayment will be half the amount . |
| 14 | Philosophy , in so far as it is the articulation of the concepts , dilemmas , explanations and abstractions of a culture , will only be half the story unless both genders contribute equally . |
| 15 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 16 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 17 | This would certainly simplify equation ( 6.3 ) to yield : but it is clear intuitively that we can not completely fill the file , as the last available storage position would on average be half the file area away from the last record 's computed address . |
| 18 | The average wait before this is located would be half a revolution if the whole overflow track were full . |
| 19 | The time was taken to be half way through the interval incorporating the change — for example , for a child in whom fluid was reported at year 3 but not at years 4 and 5 the fluid survival time was estimated to be 3.5 years . |
| 20 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 21 | So if all your service counted benefits the long term pension would actually be half your pension . |
| 22 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 23 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 24 | Low blood sugar level , that could be half the problem . |
| 25 | After all , brewers are not paying tax on beer that contains little or no alcohol , so it should be half the price of normal beer . |
| 26 | And er I told them that er I was n't p p p prepared er because they was there during the day as well , it did n't used to across to catch the school bus , and be half a dozen or so come back next door , and stop there till about twenty past three then go back , come back over as if he 's got out the bus . |
| 27 | He says it should be half way to six figures . " |
| 28 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 29 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 30 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |