Example sentences of "after [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the early years of the Reformation , a settlement between the Lutherans and Catholics had been arrived at in Augsburg in 1555 . |
| 2 | Drop-out levels at this level improved after the early years of the 1980s but repetition rates have increased from about 6 per cent in 1975 to almost 11 per cent in 1985 and 1988 . |
| 3 | While one third of the people lived near or below a stringently drawn poverty line , there had been nevertheless tangible improvements in the living conditions of the bulk of the people after the squalid upheavals of the earlier phase of industrialisation and urbanisation . |
| 4 | If we are to look after the legitimate interests of the preserved railways , one or two changes need to be made to the Bill . |
| 5 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 6 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 7 | On the whole the entrepreneurs of migration were uncontrolled , except for some supervision of shipping conditions after the terrifying epidemics of the late 1840s . |
| 8 | After the strange events of The Haunting Horror , the adventurers could find some books in room 11 which refer to the Great Enchanter , and possibly some letters implying that Ludovicus Hanike was involved with Drachenfels in some way . |
| 9 | A follow-up meeting between the movement and the king never materialised , and after the two clashes on the border King Hassan has called off a second meeting . |
| 10 | Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class . |
| 11 | It emerged after the first reports of the Dushanbe violence that there had been a demonstration on Feb. 10 in Frunze , the capital of Kirghizia , likewise sparked off by rumours of the resettlement there of Armenian refugees . |
| 12 | The army 's pioneering role , its part in the coup of 1969 , the military background of the members of the Revolutionary Command Council , were the chief reasons civilians did not control the army : after the first years of the revolution there was no ministry or secretariat for defence or aggression in Libya , and the National and local Assemblies did not discuss military affairs . |
| 13 | After his death and burial in a far corner of the churchyard , several Dalespeople swore that they had seen George Hodgson walking by moonlight and after the mysterious deaths of a number of them , his body was exhumed and buried by the church porch with a stake through its heart . |
| 14 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 15 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 16 | Who should look after the diabetic patients on the coronary care unit or the intensive therapy unit ? |
| 17 | While he welcomed this new-found enthusiasm for Broadstairs after the gloomy events of the past few days , this rowdy pink-faced band , hardly recognisable as the distinguished gathering of Literary Lionisers , was not to his taste . |
| 18 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Social democratic policies of state intervention and Ostpolitik were now in favour with the electorate , especially among young people and , after the liberal reforms at the Second Vatican Council , even Roman Catholic voters were prepared to lend support to the SPD . |
| 21 | And it had all been an act , a ploy to save them both embarrassment after the mild indiscretions of the previous evening . |
| 22 | Mr Escobar confirmed reports that he had been in contact with the government for over 12 months prior to the crackdown , ordered after the drug-related slayings of a presidential candidate and two other top officials . |
| 23 | ALTHOUGH Ville de Paris and Nippon have been eliminated after the final races of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals , they are both already setting their sights on the 1995 Cup . |
| 24 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 25 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 26 | It is all too easy to sacrifice every waking moment to the duties of running the house and looking after the physical needs of the patient and other members of the family . |
| 27 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 28 | The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman . |
| 29 | After the anti-war protests of the 1960s , the university forbids classified research — but weapons work can be done if it is publishable . |
| 30 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |