Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Things were looking very bad because the lowest estimate we received for putting the club right after the fire was £180,000 . |
| 3 | They were resumed on Jan. 22 after a series of compromises had been agreed , including live radio coverage of the talks . |
| 4 | In what was widely described as the worst civil unrest since independence , rioting erupted in Bamako , the capital , on Jan. 21 after the police banned two anti-government demonstrations demanding political reforms and the introduction of multiparty democracy . |
| 5 | Milongo went into hiding , but emerged on Jan. 21 after the troops opened fire the previous day on about 2,000 people demonstrating in support of him , killing five . |
| 6 | The directive had been unpublicized , and was only confirmed officially on Jan. 25 after the news had been leaked by the independent Interfax news agency ( which was now operating with the support of the Russian Federation government and Moscow city council after Gosteleradio had withdrawn its support in January — see p. 37972 ) . |
| 7 | A former Cabinet minister , Edward Rurangaranga , and five others were released from prison on Jan. 23 after the state dropped murder charges against them for lack of evidence . |
| 8 | Portadown 's Sonya Rowe and her horse Amsterdam had been leading after dressage , but were eliminated on the cross-country at fence four after the horse put his tongue over the bit and Sonya lost control . |
| 9 | He 's credited with keeping the club afloat after the Maxwell companies collapsed . |
| 10 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the discussions broke down in acrimony on May 22 after the Japanese delegation raised the issue of a Japanese woman allegedly abducted by North Korean agents 13 years earlier . |
| 12 | The IMF had suspended lending to the Philippines in July 1991 after the Aquino government had failed to meet various fiscal targets [ see p. 38769 ] . |
| 13 | An estimated 70,000 public-sector workers went on strike on May 10 after the government had unilaterally revoked the Civil Service Law , which protected the rights of public-sector workers . |
| 14 | On May 29 he brought forward his proposed departure date from Oct. 31 to July 31 after the Cabinet confirmed that the bank 's vice-president , Helmut Schlesinger , 66 , would succeed him and that Hans Tietmeyer , 59 , would be vice-president . |
| 15 | Judith Ward , 43 , serving a life sentence for Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) activities , was freed by the UK Court of Appeal on May 11 after the Court found her convictions to be " unsafe and unsatisfactory " . |
| 16 | Mexico severed its relations with the USSR in January 1930 after the Comintern had made a clumsy and ill-judged bid to exploit the uncertainty caused by a right-wing rebellion against the portes Gil government ( see pages 39–40 ) . |
| 17 | The threat of a similar crisis involving a possible Western attack against Iraqi targets had been revived on Aug. 6 after the government declared that it would no longer grant weapons inspectors access to official buildings and ministries . |
| 18 | DEREK ANGOL must appear before the British Board of Control on January 13 after a positive drugs test . |
| 19 | Bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond was released from prison on Aug. 27 after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a fraud conviction against him . |
| 20 | The Macedonian government offered its resignation on July 16 after a vote of no confidence was carried by 91 votes to two with seven abstentions in the Macedonian Assembly on July 7 . |
| 21 | Mrs Currie , 45 , resigned from the Department of Health in December 1988 after the salmonella-in-eggs row . |
| 22 | Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive . |
| 23 | Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive . |
| 24 | In August 1982 the minister received the further evidence CSM had asked for in November 1981 after the licence had been suspended . |
| 25 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 26 | Certainly the surgeon who performed the cholecystectomy on day 12 after the procedure was sure that he had found aperforation in the gall bladder seperate from the puncture site . |
| 27 | The withdrawal had been temporarily suspended on Oct. 21 after the Russian Defence Ministry warned that there were no facilities to rehouse the soldiers in Russia . |
| 28 | Indian border guards again opened fire on Pakistani civilians on Feb. 11 after a small group had crossed the line of control at Chakhoti , in the Uri sector . |
| 29 | Scottish Enterprise said it had carried out an audit at Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd after the allegations were made in a series of unsigned documents passed to the press and the SE chairman , Prof Donald MacKay . |
| 30 | Sixteen people were killed by unidentified gunmen in apparent reprisal attacks in Soweto and nearby townships on Oct. 28 after an Inkatha supporter was killed by a mob . |