Example sentences of "[conj] after [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
2 | One is to say that there are subtle differences which explain alleged inconsistencies , as for example between banning experiments altogether or after 14 days yet allowing later abortions . |
3 | When the main waterproofing coating starts to wear away — very quickly or after many years depending on use and care , you can try to reproof it . |
4 | The cause of the pain was attributed to gall bladder irritability , as it resembled the patients ' original attacks of biliary colic ; yet on cholecystoscopy at or after 10 days only one patient had appreciable mucosal inflammatory change . |
5 | Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) . |
6 | Supplementary benefit or supplementary pension or allowance may be affected immediately on admission or after eight weeks , according to circumstances , and widow 's pension and some other State pensions and benefits also after eight weeks . |
7 | But DOUBLE PAYMENT , specially developed for Reader 's Digest by Guardian Royal Exchange , promises you full-cover life insurance and a generous cash sum — either on your 65th birthday or after ten years , whichever is later . |
8 | It guarantees YOU a lump sum — either on your 65th birthday or after ten years , whichever is later . |
9 | From just 25p a day , you can help protect your dependents against the crippling financial penalty of losing a parent or partner — and secure yourself a cash payout … at the age of 65 if you 're aged between 18 and 54 when cover commences , or after ten years if you 're aged between 55 and 69 . |
10 | While one of the outstanding attractions of the policy is that you receive a cash payment on your 65th birthday ( or after ten years , whichever is later ) , the benefits certainly do n't end there . |
11 | Instead of going into private practice , or after some years of practice , the solicitor may seek an appointment . |
12 | They were betting that , before or after parliamentary elections in March , the franc would be devalued and interest rates would tumble . |
13 | This might be in a direct indictment , as at the end of 147 , where after twelve lines describing the poet 's state of fever and madness ( ‘ frantic-mad with evermore unrest ’ ) , the couplet finally reveals the cause of his derangement : ‘ For I have sworn thee fair , and thought thee bright , /Who art as black as hell , as dark as night . ’ |
14 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
15 | It also provides that after six months , unsolicited goods are deemed to be an unconditional gift to the recipient . |
16 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
17 | Mr Butler told the hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed that after two rehearsals the main jump went ahead over Brunton Airfield , Northumberland . |
18 | Suffice it to say that after two centuries of higher and lower criticism we just can not approach the Bible in the way that former Christians did . |
19 | These were the first volumes to be received by the library from overseas and it is significant to note that after two centuries many of the original books remain on the shelves and Miller 's Dictionary is still is use . |
20 | The result was that after two years out of racing , Niki asked Ron Dennis to give him a private test — mainly to assure himself that he had not lost his skill and that he could face the new world of FI wing cars , quicker and much more road-adhering than the old generation . |
21 | What is interesting about Isabelle 's case , though , is that after two years of rehabilitation and skilled training she covered the stages of learning that would normally require six years . |
22 | I am glad that after two years inspectors were appointed , and that they have expended 18 months upon investigating the take-over of House of Fraser . |
23 | The latest CBI/NatWest Innovation Trends Survey shows that after two years of decline , expenditure in support of innovation has increased in the last two years . |
24 | Is the Minister aware that after two years of deep recession , 200,000 companies have gone under ? |
25 | They therefore tend to assume that after two years the firm ( if it is not a supernormal growth firm ) simply grows in line with GDP , on the grounds that , in the long run , the share of dividends or earnings in GDP does not trend in any significant way . |
26 | Nissan says that after two years car production in Japan will be concentrated in a new factory in Fukuoka , southern Kyushu , where the Zama workforce is to be relocated . |
27 | At the end of the nineteenth century , dredging for gravel began in the bay when extensions to Devonport 's naval dockyard were planned , and the sinking of the protective shingle beach left Hallsands exposed to the winter storms , which in 1917 were so severe that after two days only one house was left standing . |
28 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
29 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
30 | But it remained true , as a very experienced commentator pointed out , that " any man filled with an excessive desire of fortune or riches should abandon the calling of negotiator " , while the most successful English diplomat of the eighteenth century claimed that after fourteen years in several highly important posts he found himself £20,000 worse off . |