Example sentences of "later [noun] [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noticeable that there was a willingness on the part of quite a number of voters to express as many preferences as there were candidates and the comment was sometimes made that while it was not too difficult to decide which candidates should be given first and early preferences and which candidates should be given last and later preferences it was less easy to decide the order of preference in which the middle range of candidates should be placed . |
| 2 | In later times it was briefly occupied by Cromwell and by Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Rebellion of 1745 . |
| 3 | At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? " |
| 4 | In a later interview he was to say of his poetry that " … in its sources , in its emotional springs , it comes from America " . |
| 5 | With this and a later inheritance he was able to indulge his passion for science by organising what might be considered the forerunners of today 's scientific conferences . |
| 6 | In the later decades it was raised more often . |
| 7 | In later work it was referred to as a " contiguity factor . " |
| 8 | And er in later days it was called the School . |
| 9 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 10 | His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children . |
| 11 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 12 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 13 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 14 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 15 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 16 | In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place . |
| 17 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 18 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 19 | In later life he was fond of Tom Stoppard 's remark about being a bounced Czech . |
| 20 | In later life he was an invalid . |
| 21 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 22 | In later life I was made unnecessarily unhappy by my religious divergence from his position . ’ |
| 23 | In later life I was lucky enough to be able to afford flying lessons , even though they cost a fortune at £5 an hour ! |
| 24 | As secretary and later resident he was responsible for English representation at Vienna in 1697–1700 , although William III placed more reliance on his Dutch counterpart . |
| 25 | In the mid 1940s Battelle took an interest in developing the process further , and at a later date it was exploited through the Haloid Corporation after a research person had read about the technology in a journal . |
| 26 | Under the scrutiny of Hayward and Browne , he began to revise and concentrate his verse — after the problems with The Family Reunion , he wished to use only poetry which met the test of " strict dramatic utility " although at a later date he was to worry in case he had strayed too close to the drama of Frederick Lonsdale . |
| 27 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |