Example sentences of "a [noun sg] after the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt a fraud after the first week off , ’ he says . |
| 3 | If you could like to register or receive a programme after the New Year please fill in the form below . |
| 4 | no. 13 ) , here presented as a preparatory study for the St Petersburg painted version , rather than a drawing after the Russian canvas made as a study for the variant painting now in Munich , as has been previously suggested . |
| 5 | Such energies have only existed in the fraction of a second after the Big Bang . |
| 6 | But Howey insisted last night he was relishing the challenge of a tie balanced on a knife-edge after the goal-less draw at St James 's . |
| 7 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 8 | He asked President De Klerk for a meeting after the National Party leader 's recent talks with prominent anti-apartheid activists . |
| 9 | Michael Gillingham tells how he is making a comeback after the dreaded telephone call |
| 10 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 11 | Children whose mothers smoke ten or more cigarettes a day after the fourth month of pregnancy tend to show poorer progress at school , at least up to the age of 16 [ 14 ] . |
| 12 | He says : ‘ Troy held up a grocery store with a friend after the alleged killing and stole a packet of vanilla wafers and some milk . |
| 13 | They turned it into a fortress after the third time when most of their son 's possessions were taken . |
| 14 | Chesterton 's views were to become increasingly obsessional from the 1930s onwards ; Williamson , as The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight was to prove , particularly in its early volumes , regained a considerable measure of detachment and objectivity in his professional vocation as a novelist after the Second World War . |
| 15 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |
| 16 | The true depth of Jack 's growing interest in aviation came a month after the hopping fiasco . |
| 17 | Last July , a month after the Argentinian surrender at Port Stanley , Geoffrey Pattie , Under Secretary of State for Defence , issued the MoD 's first report on the war : Falkland Island Operations — Interim Commentary on Equipment Matters . |
| 18 | Less than a month after the 1988 budget ( providing tax cuts for all income earners , but especially for those on high income ) , the government 's social security reforms came into force amid great controversy , with a revised scheme of welfare benefits . |
| 19 | In conclusion , Mr Angus pointed out that trusts had a life after the next dividend declaration . |
| 20 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 21 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |
| 22 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 23 | A fortnight after the pastoral letter , exiles and reformers met in Zambia , and Chihana , secretary general of the South Africa Trade Union Coordinating Council , was mandated to return to organise a ‘ national conference of democratic forces ’ . |
| 24 | He waited for a fortnight after the heavy snowfall of late November and still nothing appeared to have been said with regard to Sarah 's move to Leeds . |
| 25 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 26 | We know , for example , that at Kingston-upon-Hull fewer than half the building plots in the royal town had been taken up by 1320 , a generation after the original planning . |
| 27 | Right : Sadler and Captain Paget of the Royal Navy make ascent in August 1812 — a year after the epic flight described here . |
| 28 | A year after the first warning , Mr Cannon still weighed over 20 stone . |
| 29 | THIS week Thomson Holidays resumed package tours to Lake Bled , Slovenia — less than a year after the civil war prompted an emergency evacuation of British tourists from their hotels last June . |
| 30 | A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU . |