Example sentences of "the [noun sg] after the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brother , Thomas Piper , is known to Burns enthusiasts as ‘ Spunkie Tammie ’ , a name given to him by the poet after the two men met in Maybole in 1786 . |
| 2 | He tip-toed across the studio floor and peeped up the corridor after the marching men . |
| 3 | The medico-moral strategy was consolidated in the period after the initial reforms of the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 4 | During the night after The Best Years of Our Lives scooped the Oscars , she came downstairs to find him sitting alone , with an award in each hand , sobbing . |
| 5 | Basal and postprandial serum gastrin concentrations and basal pepsinogen A and C values were measured the day before , the last day ( day five ) , of treatment , and on the day after the various courses of treatment . |
| 6 | Nowhere was the Right-On bandwagon more apparent than in London , where it culminated in the elevation of Ken Livingstone to the leadership of the controlling Labour group on the Greater London Council the day after the local elections in March 1981 . |
| 7 | The relative stabilization of the economy after the wild fluctuations in the business cycle in the previous decade , together with the defeat of Chartism and early militant trade-unionism , assisted social reformers in their attempts to treat issues as discrete and separate , rather than interdependent . |
| 8 | It was the morning after the THREE nights before — a bank holiday weekend rave party that started on saturday and was still going strong last night . |
| 9 | The term ‘ Palestine ’ was coined over 1,000 years later by the Romans who renamed the country after the ancient Philistines in an attempt to de-Judaise the Holy Land and expunge all Jewish references . |