Example sentences of "[vb pp] after a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , the backlash to which so many poor devils have been exposed after a premature elevation to megastardom . |
| 2 | Exposed after a bigamous marriage in New York in 1885 , he changed his name to its final form and enlisted with Thorsten Nordenfelt , the London-based Swedish inventor of a quick-firing gun and an unseaworthy submarine . |
| 3 | Franlow maintains Mrs Taylor was dismissed after a long-running dispute with the manageress . |
| 4 | THE trial of a nurse accused of murdering four children may have to be stopped after a sudden deterioration in her health , it emerged yesterday . |
| 5 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 6 | Panel B shows the results of a similar test given after a conditioning trial on which consumption of saline was followed by an injection of LiCl . |
| 7 | Founded in 1637 and rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1824 . |
| 8 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 9 | ‘ in an indictment for any such felony committed after a previous conviction for felony … a certificate containing the substance and effect only … of the indictment and conviction for the previous felony … shall … be sufficient evidence of the first conviction … ’ |
| 10 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 11 | Again , it would seem that this matter could only be resolved after a detailed investigation of the particular industry in question . |
| 12 | He was warned after a clash with Jon Gittens and was booked after a two-footed challenge on the goalscorer , John Hendrie . |
| 13 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 14 | On Oct. 12 Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble , a key architect of the unification treaty and close confidant of Kohl , was shot twice and seriously wounded after a political rally in the town of Oppenau in Baden-Württemberg . |
| 15 | PUBLIC SPENDING is to be harshly curtailed after a tough round of negotiations between the Treasury and Ministers . |
| 16 | Do n't forget to fit a servicing valve just before the ballvalve and gatevalves to all the cold water feeds : these are connected after a short run of pipe except for the feed to the hot water cylinder , where the gatevalve is usually fitted in the airing cupboard near to the cylinder . |
| 17 | The present Church of Senhor Bom Jesus was built after a terrible fire on 12 July 1908 destroyed the original building . |
| 18 | The Extraordinary Commission 's report was accepted after a 12-hour debate on July 23 by 184 votes to 110 with 19 abstentions . |
| 19 | Such statements are only made after a considerable expenditure of time and effort by both the company and its auditors . |
| 20 | Although recognising that many such ‘ Go , No-Go ’ decisions are made after a brief examination by one or two executives , he argues that more ‘ scientific ’ or ‘ realistic ’ comparative methods of assessment should be used . |
| 21 | Buchan 's A Lodge in the Wilderness ( 1906 ) was a more explicit reflection of the imperial ethos of the day , written after a youthful spell on the periphery of Milner 's ‘ kindergarten ’ in South Africa . |
| 22 | The Wright amendment , named after a former speaker of the House , Jim Wright , permits flights leaving Dallas 's Love Field to fly only to cities in Texas and four neighbouring states . |
| 23 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 24 | The Salvador hotel siege ended peacefully when 12 US Green Berets were freed after a seeming deal between guerrillas and the army . |
| 25 | The Salvador hotel siege ended peacefully when 12 US Green Berets were freed after a seeming deal between guerrillas and the army . |
| 26 | Proceed along Hollow Way and the property will be seen after a short distance on the left hand side , identified by an Adkin ‘ For Sale ’ board . |
| 27 | Mr de Klerk also told parliament of plans for a government crack-down on the Azanian Peoples ' Liberation Army ( APLA ) , the military wing of the radical black nationalist Pan Africanist Congress , and of the possibility that the death penalty would be reintroduced after a recent wave of political violence in which victims have included both white and black children . |
| 28 | CORONATION Street actor Teddy Turner , who played Chalky White in the popular soap , has died after a long illness aged 75 . |
| 29 | I was recently at the funeral of a friend , who had died after a prolonged illness from cancer . |
| 30 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |