Example sentences of "[noun] after the " in BNC.

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1 ( Below ) Mary in white mourning after the death of Francis — en deuil blanc ; unknown artists , after François Clouet .
2 Looking Glass 's voice , though , dominated the council , and it was agreed that he should lead the Nez Perce on the Lolo trail over the Bitterroots , to join the Crows in Montana , and perhaps on to the ‘ Old Woman 's Country ’ , Canada , where Sitting Bull had sought sanctuary after the Custer massacre .
3 A flash of hope after the unexpected success at Bauge in 1421 ; but Cravant and , in particular , Verneuil put paid to hopes of a quick revival .
4 As one senior civil servant in the Department of the Environment 's directorate on environmental pollution told an anti-lead campaigner after the minister 's announcement : keep on lobbying .
5 She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867 .
6 Mr Evans also claimed signalling difficulties were caused because Capt Brown 's starting flag was wrapped around the stick after the second start .
7 Erm , I 'm not absolutely certain , I ai n't got the keys , I mean we 're waiting for the mortgage to that 's just being decided , draw the contracts after the exchange and er all that lark , but it will be a few weeks .
8 Sensitive to further environmental damage after the nuclear disaster , authorities banned the use of chemical insecticides in the worst affected areas , leaving crops vulnerable to insect pests .
9 Michael Benson , 42 , of Los Angeles , was whisked to hospital with serious lung damage after the daring helicopter mission in zero visibility .
10 It is interesting that the dose-response effect we found in these coeliac disease children is similar to that found in the single gluten challenge study by Ciclitira et al , which showed no evidence of jejunal mucosal damage after the infusion of 10 mg of gliadin , minimal changes after 100 mg of gliadin , and noticeable histological changes after an additional 500 mg challenge .
11 A police spokesman last night confirmed that one person was arrested for criminal damage after the incident on Friday night , but had not yet been charged .
12 Each film will be introduced , and placed in context , and there will be discussions after the screening .
13 The daylight , overcast and grey though it was , made her blink after the dimness of the hovel and caused her to hesitate while she got her bearings .
14 Maybe it 's a case of all these important people getting free drinks in the George Best Suite after the match .
15 ‘ It was difficult to maintain the concentration , but there were no real problems , ’ said a delighted Moodie after the race .
16 His first source had been Terence , who had intensified his own investigations after the humiliation at the Amsterdam .
17 Mr Mellish disclosed that investigations after the incidents at Gateshead gas depot just before midnight on Tuesday and at a disused Esso oil terminal at North Shields late last night involved explosives .
18 Sarajevo radio broadcast a dramatic appeal from civilians trapped in the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Cerska , which had been the destination of a UN relief convoy that was ordered back to base after the aid suspension .
19 However , the cynicism and poor morale portrayed in Platoon are more typical of post-1968 attitudes after the Tet Offensive , rather than 1967 when the film was set .
20 Hongkong & Shanghai Bank fell 16p to 469p following the turmoil in Hong Kong , while retailer John Menzies added 13p to 459p after the sale of a US subsidiary .
21 Surprisingly , there was little euphoria after the game .
22 In the utopian euphoria after the success of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 , many Soviet communists wanted to make a clean sweep of the discredited old order .
23 Though Murat considered this niggling opposition an encouragement to disaffection — ‘ the yeast of all this ferment ’ ( 25 July ) — in the euphoria after the patriot victory of Bailén ( 19 July 1808 ) the dignified trimmings of magistrates appeared the feebleness of treason .
24 There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process .
25 Figure 6.7 is a typical fairly large lunar crater , named Copernicus after the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473–1543 ) .
26 Grisedale once housed a busy farming community but economic necessity after the war caused a sad exodus and the abandonment of farmhouses and buildings .
27 Although the Commissioners from the counties required to be possessed of a freehold within the county which they represented , there was no necessity after the Union for a person who represented the City of Edinburgh , or any of the fourteen Districts into which the other burghs were divided , to be possessed of any property within the burgh .
28 Sherrin recalled the actor occasionally phoning in with ideas for the monologues , but Crawford 's desire to deliver a eulogy to Sir Winston Churchill after the wartime Prime Minister 's funeral met with a cold response from his producer .
29 The catalyst for the leadership contest was Keating 's revelation on May 30 that Hawke had made a secret promise in November 1988 to resign as Prime Minister in favour of Keating after the 1990 election .
30 The Australian megapodes are usually known as brush-turkeys or as mallee fowl after the mallee , the kind of semi-desert scrub that they frequent .
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