Example sentences of "[verb] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community , Continuity and Change after the 1984–5 Coal Dispute . |
| 2 | To some extent , the Communist Party of Great Britain benefited from this : its membership trebled after the German invasion , reaching a peak of about 56,000 in 1943 . |
| 3 | Brother Winfrid , big and young and wholesome , was leaning on his spade at the edge of the vegetable patch beyond , and gazing after a diminutive figure that was just scuttling away round the corner of the box hedge towards the great court . |
| 4 | Gazing after the covered metal container , she said : |
| 5 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 6 | All four of our mystics wrote in what we now call Middle English , a language which had developed after the Norman Conquest and which grafted French onto the old Anglo-Saxon . |
| 7 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 8 | This developed after the French Revolution of 1789 when many french dancing masters fled to Spain to become dancing masters to the aristocratic families . |
| 9 | Ever the traditionalist , AT&T Co chose late Friday to announce that 1,000 jobs are to go at its transmissions systems Merrimack Valley Works plant in North Andover , Massachusetts : 5,000 employees will remain after the big lay-off ; AT&T cited reduced demand and improved plant efficiencies for the cuts , which are planned for late August . |
| 10 | Labour made the National Health Service a major issue , and considerable media debate arose after a Labour party political broadcast on March 24 featuring the plight of a young girl needing specialist hospital treatment . |
| 11 | The rumour that it was radioactive arose after the Soviet authorities requested some civilian aircraft not to fly their usual routes from Japan to Europe for 48 hours for ‘ technical reasons ’ . |
| 12 | The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London . |
| 13 | Numerous problems arose after the 1980 election to ensure the demise of Schmidt and the SPD . |
| 14 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 15 | I mean after the armed police officers but before you ? |
| 16 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
| 17 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 18 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 19 | Gower was sacked after a disastrous Test series against Australia and axed from the winter tour to the West Indies . |
| 20 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 21 | A real mountain bastu is one of those experiences not to be missed , and all you could want after a hard day 's toil , a wonderful relaxant . |
| 22 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
| 23 | The Dubliners had 58 runs to spare after a half century by Mark Cohen helped them reach 181 . |
| 24 | But it was forgotten England batsman John Morris ( 48no ) and Chris Adams ( 53no ) who clinched victory with three and a half overs to spare after an unbroken third wicket stand of 95 in 12 overs . |
| 25 | But treated after a diverse fashion , |
| 26 | Wednesday had David Hirst sent off in their 3–1 UEFA Cup reverse in Kaiserslautern a fortnight ago and manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ We felt unjustly treated after the first game , but tonight it was very fair and they deserved to go through . |
| 27 | With rewards , the dog is treated after the desired behaviour , not before . |
| 28 | She had occasional epileptic fits after the first , and they so frightened Rose and her family that everyone became over-protective of her . |
| 29 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 30 | Hence , the backlash to which so many poor devils have been exposed after a premature elevation to megastardom . |