Example sentences of "but after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after the assassination of the presidential candidate , Luis Carlos Galan , which triggered Mr Barco 's clampdown , Morena was banned . |
| 2 | It comprised some of the very best of the Black-Earth belt , but after the Revolution it had been trampled over first by the Red Army advancing on Kiev from Kharkov , then by the German 20th Army Corps , and later by ruthless and bloodthirsty ‘ Green ’ armies . |
| 3 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 4 | But after the initial blisters and a bit of breaking in , I 've been fairly impressed with these boots . |
| 5 | The taxi driver speaks no English and I spend a fraught moment or two wondering whether he has understood that I do n't want to go to Keflavik , but after the shorter tour of Reykjavik we arrive . |
| 6 | But after the protest of the Hong Kong yacht Foo 2 against Cyclone for an infringement in the fourth race was heard , Cyclone was penalised nine places . |
| 7 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 8 | But after the permission of the seventies , when sex was banalized by becoming available , it could no longer be the instigator of desperation ( it 's that state of mind that is indispensable to rock , not physical fin ) . |
| 9 | But after the company 's debacle in New York , ‘ sweating ’ assets much further may prove impossible . |
| 10 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 11 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 12 | But after the defeat and death of de Montfort at the battle of Evesham , the king on 2 September 1266 wrote to Roger Leyburn , Justice of the Forest north of Trent : |
| 13 | But after the 1960s merger which created NatWest , Lloyds ' own plan to merger with Barclays was blocked . |
| 14 | Joseph 's people pulled up the stakes that the surveyors planted , but after the ratification of the Thief Treaty the next year , they continued to arrive . |
| 15 | Loch Doon was jilted during the First World War ; there were plans to build an important sea-plane base there , but after the expenditure of some £500,000 , the ill-conceived scheme was abandoned . |
| 16 | In the case of a limited number of Old English or Anglo-Saxon bynames these took such forms as at Dentune , on Lundye , of Wommerstone , in Mapeldre , but after the Conquest the prefix became , almost without exception , the preposition de ( of or from ) , it mattering not whether the place was in France or England . |
| 17 | By late Tudor times it had become a prosperous wool-producing centre , and had a thriving tannery , but after the civil wars , during which it housed a small Parliamentary garrison , it gradually declined inactivity and status . |
| 18 | He enjoyed it , dangerous though it was for foreigners , but after the fall of Robespierre he had deemed it advisable to leave again . |
| 19 | Bateman was a school-master by profession but after the war he signed professional forms for Palace . |
| 20 | But after the sinking of the Sheffield , they changed their minds . |
| 21 | But after the Norman Conquest the defensive role of cities was ambivalent . |
| 22 | Every invasion attempt so far had foundered on France 's naval weakness , but after the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 de Choiseul had put in hand a whole series of reforms . |
| 23 | Even in his own day his wines were called , not after Hautvillers , but after the man himself , vins de Pérignon . |
| 24 | But after the boys they seemed tiresome : too demanding ; wanting love as well as sex ; too many ideas about how it should be done , and which position they liked best , and whether they came or not . |
| 25 | It 's in Kenneth Baker 's Criminal Justice Act , but after the disastrous experiments with tagging remand prisoners , it seems unlikely that it will ever be implemented . |
| 26 | But after the third double Vladivar , they were eager , almost desperate , to get back at the bottle . |
| 27 | But after the initial choice , which is exceptional in treating awareness itself as an end to which hardship is the means , he will not be taking suffering as an end ; to force himself to accept it passively would insensitize and brutalize him instead of enhancing awareness . |
| 28 | If I sound euphoric I make no apologies , It has been a superb period for English rugby and will also be a hard act to follow , but after the weekend of the Irish visit I am sure that we can go on to even greater things from here . |
| 29 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 30 | ‘ But after the first day on the outside , I started to relax . |