Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Portuguese government succeeded in enlisting the aid of the European Communities after an 18-km oil slick washed up on the beaches of Porto Santo island in the ( Portuguese ) Madeiras on Jan. 16 , causing the deaths of large numbers of turtles , seagulls and rare birds . |
| 2 | I 'm Brenda Row , and these were the headlines : widespread protest in Israel and the occupied territories after Palestinians are killed by an Israeli ; allegations of fraud as National Salvation Front wins Romanian elections , and seven die in an upsurge of violence in South Africa . |
| 3 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 4 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 5 | Osbern 's next service to the revival of the old observances after his return from Bec was to write the first coherent Life of Dunstan . |
| 6 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 7 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 9 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 10 | The most striking fact about de Gaulle 's actions in the six months after the liberation of Paris was how little his priorities shifted , in contrast to those of the political class as a whole . |
| 11 | She now wishes to investigate whether the level of stability changes in the six months after children are moved from local authority homes to foster parents . |
| 12 | Gookey , the 21-year-old York sprinter who finished third in the World Student Games 100 metres final last year , lost the photo-finish verdict in the 100 metres after he and Sale Harrier Darren Campbell stopped the clock at 10.46 secs . |
| 13 | Alesi had proved troublesome for Berger in the early stages after the Austrian had made a poor start and then spent several laps working his way past the Ferrari and Schumacher . |
| 14 | In the early weeks after I had him I suffered from postnatal depression . |
| 15 | First , she lost the opening singles match 6-3 , 6-3 to Jana Novotna then she dithered far too often in the deciding doubles after Graf had , as expected , levelled the score by crushing Helena Sukova 6-2 , 6-1 in the other singles match . |
| 16 | Lieutenant Treadwell a figure of fun and contempt to the real cops after his hair started falling out in tufts , earned his way back into Commander Moss ' good graces by authoring that portion of the Los Angeles Police Department manual which reads |
| 17 | A consideration of the movement of the partly-paid share prices of the ten privatised water companies during the three days after the issue shows the size of the gains made and supports the view that the companies were undervalued ( see Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 18 | Mr John Towers , managing director , said that in the five days after the poll sales had risen by 20 per cent compared with the same five days last year . |
| 19 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 20 | Major groups do not simply obliterate other major groups by competition ; rather do they radiate into the adaptive zones after the previous dominant group has become extinct . |
| 21 | We had the same bills after he got made redundant . |
| 22 | In East Prussia only months before he had crossed fields strewn with corpses to reach the American lines after the Russian advance had enveloped his prison camp . |
| 23 | Making a comeback in the amateur ranks after a distinguished career in the professional game was Ian Potter , the former Warrington , Wigan and Leigh forward . |
| 24 | 87 MINUTES : Kiwomya slipped the ball past the advancing Flowers after Monkou had tried to head a long ball from Guentchev back to his keeper . |
| 25 | Most effective of all in stopping any new building were the Lammas pasture rights — that is , the right of burgesses , or some of them , to graze their cattle and sheep over the open fields after the harvest had been taken in . |
| 26 | It was , and remained , his contention that the pure Lugardian principles of Indirect Rule had been perverted by ‘ mediocre careerists ’ in the Northern Residencies after the great man left . |
| 27 | Angry Caroline , 26 , told an industrial tribunal that Mr Garber seized the saucy snaps after she left them in the staff room at the Trim N Proper salon in Ickenham , Middlesex . |
| 28 | Moslems in Bosnia on Sept. 9 detained Milan Martic , the " Defence Minister " of the ( Serb ) " Krajina Republic " , together with three JNA officers but Bosnia 's Moslem President Alia Izetbegovic decided to release them to the federal authorities after Serbs threatened to attack the town . |
| 29 | Gorbachev 's visit to China in May 1989 , although overshadowed by massive pro-democracy demonstration in Beijing , had marked the formal normalization of state and party relations between the two countries after almost 30 years of enmity [ see pp. 36640-42 ] . |
| 30 | Burridge became Palace 's top scorer in the two seasons after he joined us and his 20 League goals in 1963–64 were a key reason for our further progress to Division Two . |