Example sentences of "the [adj] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former seems to have written most of his Norman ducal history , the Gesta Normannorum Ducum , in the 1050s after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Duke William in 1051 – 2 , and this is doubtless why he describes Anglo-Norman relations under Æthelred and Cnut , and comments on Edward 's exile in Normandy . |
| 2 | I soon learned that the theme of angels was one of the most popular in the paintings produced by indigenous artists for the complex iconographic programmes of the churches and missions established by the Spanish after the conquest . |
| 3 | It is hard to distinguish any specific impact of the introduction of plough agriculture and draught animals by the Spanish after AD 1521 . |
| 4 | This is made all the easier after first experiencing the hover at the ‘ edge ’ . |
| 5 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 6 | But he was n't killed in action , he was shot by the British after being caught red handed spying FOR the Japanese . |
| 7 | As with so many of the primitive plants the arthrophytes had their heyday in the Carboniferous after a probable origin in the Devonian . |
| 8 | Its annual fairs and three weekly markets brought sellers and purchasers from miles around and goods from overseas were brought up the river Ouse right into the heart of the city , York remained one of the leading provincial centres , despite its decline to less than 8,000 people in the 1520s after the collapse of its cloth industry and the decay of its overseas trade . |
| 9 | He had a shaving kit like that , and he had his old , the old after shave lotion and that , and he will , well , picked us , we just fucking said I , I know what will do the trick a bit of fucking gone |
| 10 | We look at all the other conferences , the lowest after that was the Northern Provence which is in a very similar position to ourselves and they were offering a five percent increase . |
| 11 | The Times of Jan. 10 reported that the United Kingdom government had pressed for the release of the six after being informed of their plight by Roland ( " Tiny " ) Rowland , the chief executive of the Lonrho group of companies . |
| 12 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 13 | Lugar was a practitioner of the Picturesque after the manner of John Nash and Humphry Repton [ qq.v. ] , working in a wide variety of architectural styles including the ‘ Grecian ’ , the Tudor Gothic , and that of the cottage ornée as well as the castellated . |
| 14 | None of the staff even mention the psychological after effects . |
| 15 | However , as the reader will see , few operations of this type were carried out by the SBS in the Mediterranean after 1943 . |
| 16 | History suggests that Hongkong Bank should expect the worst after 1997 ; it lost all but one of its 33 branches in mainland China in 1949 . |
| 17 | Manager Edward Stein admits he fears the worst after Barnet 's company secretary Stanley Beller warned him that the club would be put into liquidation inside 24 hours unless ‘ things are sorted out . ’ |
| 18 | Manager Edward Stein fears the worst after Barnet 's company secretary Stanley Beller warned him the club would be put into liquidation inside 24 hours unless ‘ things are sorted out . ’ |
| 19 | THE BIG residential property lenders and estate agents were showing fortitude in the face of the inevitable after yesterday 's base rate rise . |
| 20 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after revelation upon revelation about his seedy affair with soft-porn starlet Antonia de Sancha and freebie holidays hosted by PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens and an Arab sheik . |
| 21 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes , when he was visibly hobbling around . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 23 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 24 | For instance , coins of the tribe of the Carnutes inscribed with the name ‘ Yllycci ’ were present , whereas those with ‘ Giamilos ’ were absent ; the inference is that the former were produced before 52BC and the latter after that date . |
| 25 | Eastern Province flanker ELANDRE VAN DEN BERG and Transvaal prop BALIE SWART were the two who tested positive , the former after the Test Union day on April 25th and the latter after the Transvaal v Western Province game on May 16th . |
| 26 | King 's X 's first two albums proved the Houston trio one of the more inventive rock groups of their age , and one of the weirdest ; those albums were titled ‘ Out of the Silent Planet ’ and ‘ Gretchen Goes To Nebraska ’ , the latter after a short story written by the drummer ! |
| 27 | The deciding game between Angela Corry and Ruth was won by the latter after a time scramble . |
| 28 | King 's X 's first two albums proved the Houston trio one of the more inventive rock groups of their age , and one of the weirdest ; those albums were titled ‘ Out of the Silent Planet ’ and ‘ Gretchen Goes To Nebraska ’ , the latter after a short story written by the drummer ! |
| 29 | If a mains transformer has a secondary rated at 9V , 100mA , does this refer to the a.c. output or the d.c. after rectification ? |
| 30 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |