Example sentences of "[adv] after [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You often find that erm television with sex and everything , they always put it on after a certain time for children go to bed . |
| 2 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 3 | And its been a day of tumbling wickets — with Worcestershire forced to follow on after a disastrous morning at the crease … |
| 4 | The last significant talks , in 1978 , had stumbled over US considerations of Chinese interests and on problems inherent in the negotiations , and halted altogether after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia . |
| 5 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |
| 6 | Perhaps after a cold swim across the channel , as your own personal adventure begins to unfold , you too will begin to understand . |
| 7 | Perhaps after the hot food in the evening ? |
| 8 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 9 | A snowy wasteland yields the third key , but only after a desperate struggle with its guardians , the Ice Soldiers . |
| 10 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 11 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 12 | He pointed out that , when new products come on the market , they are often treated as great blessings , and it is only after a great deal of experience and use that we learn of their dangers and downsides . |
| 13 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 14 | It was only after a stirring call for unity from Mr Modrow , the Prime Minister , that the 2,700 delegates rejected proposals for the SED to be dissolved and a new party founded . |
| 15 | It was only after a stirring call for unity from Mr Modrow , the Prime Minister , that the 2,700 delegates rejected proposals for the SED to be dissolved and a new party founded . |
| 16 | Some require good manual dexterity , for example , the handling of forceps , the removal of clips and bandaging all require fine movements , and can be learnt only after a certain amount of practice . |
| 17 | prisons , being regarded by most planners and politicians as ‘ non-productive ’ ( short-sighted a view as this may be ) , did not until very recently achieve even token inclusion in a Five Year Plan , and this came only after a lengthy battle by individuals within the Ministries of Home Affairs and Welfare to include a meaningful package for development in the correctional field . |
| 18 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 19 | A long half-mile to the east , across a rising plateau , is the summit of Gragareth and it is reached only after a stumbling progress through untamed and unfriendly vegetation . |
| 20 | Only after a considerable period of experience do infants give clear signs that they are aware of the extent of their own bodies and the division between themselves and the wider world . |
| 21 | Rumour had it that on a less poetic occasion the Emperor had visited the pavilion accompanied only by Mme Walewska , his current favourite , embarking in a small rowing boat and returning with the lady only after a considerable lapse of time . |
| 22 | It was only after a passionate entreaty by his relative Lady Frances Wingfield , who lived in St. Martin 's , that Cromwell relented and he later presented the widowed countess of Burghley with a portrait of himself . |
| 23 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 24 | 2 The decision to appear should be taken only after a careful look at the benefits and disadvantages of doing so . |
| 25 | The clear implication would appear to be that an individual cost-benefit approach is appropriate , with each monopoly situation being judged upon its own merits only after a careful weighing of the gains and losses . |
| 26 | It is only after a careful analysis of the situation and after a general assessment |
| 27 | If the management 's lawyers are not successful in removing a provision of this kind , then its effect can be mitigated by amendment so that it will apply only after an agreed period of time , for example five years , or with the consent of an agreed percentage of the members ; the latter may be appropriate where the investment has been syndicated . |
| 28 | It accepted Mr Yanaev as vice-president ( but only after an embarrassing failure in the first vote and some heavyweight intervention by Mr Gorbachev ) . |
| 29 | For example , in Britain , a ‘ stillbirth ’ is defined to take place only after the 28th week of pregnancy ; in the USA , the borderline is the 20th week . |
| 30 | ( It is medically thought that only after the 28th week of pregnancy that the foetus has a separate existence from that of its mother ) . |