Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] after [art] " in BNC.

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1 If the third party act is held to be a novus actus interveniens , then the defendant is not liable for any damage occurring after the act .
2 Birdie sometimes questioned the fairness of life , having spent overlong looking after an ailing mother and missing her chances with a very suitable man from Ballylee who married another , who was n't bound to an ailing parent .
3 However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review .
4 ‘ Lady Amelia , tomorrow , in your chapter meeting after the morning Mass , tell your sisters that before Vespers I will speak to them and explain all that has happened . ’
5 In gall bladder filling after a test meal , V r e s reflects maximum gall bladder volume .
6 By late afternoon the FT-SE 100 had made some progress and closed 26.2 up at 2732.4 , with news of the GATT deal coming after the end of trading .
7 Georges Vigon , chairman of its executive board , encouraged Frans Afman , a senior manager , to expand movie lending after the bank 's property and commodities businesses ran into trouble .
8 Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman .
9 In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class .
10 Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick .
11 The reason for many sudden deaths is still not known , but instead of saying so , we blame what is a commonplace incidental necropsy finding after the age of 25 : sclerosed coronary arteries .
12 Policy decided in inter-party haggling after an election , not by voters during it .
13 Shares in had to be suspended on the Paris stock exchange collapsing after the company announced a massive loss .
14 There are Test recalls for Emburey , Michael Atherton and Phillip DeFreitas with the Middlesex off-spinner returning after a gap of more than three-and-a-half years .
15 The project quality plan is produced by the project engineer looking after the job , and that is not the project coordinator .
16 As you know it is a 24 hours job looking after a child/young adult with special needs .
17 It 's a full-time job looking after an MS patient , ’ she added , then glanced quickly at him to see what effect her words had .
18 Normally , you will receive a tax demand for the extra tax owing after the end of the year .
19 ‘ A period commencing after the effective date of insurance and in respect of which the Customer is registered in the United Kingdom with the Department of Employment ( DHSS in Northern Ireland ) as unemployed and is actively seeking Employment ’ .
20 ‘ Unemployment means a period commencing after the effective date of insurance during which the Insured Borrower is certified as unemployed by the Department of Employment ’ .
21 Unemployment means a period commencing after the effective date of insurance during which the Insured Borrower is out of work as a result of redundancy as defined in the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 or any amendment thereto , dismissal where the contract under which the Insured Borrower is employed is terminated by the employer , or the financial insolvency of the business of the Insured Borrower 's employer or the business of the Insured Borrower' .
22 Unemployment means a period commencing after the effective date of insurance and the Insured Customer is : —
23 During the hearings political protests , as such , were most gentle : one patriot inquiring after the patriotism of another .
24 I 'll be in the staff room recuperating after a hard morning 's work .
25 Section 33(3) requires the court to have regard to all the circumstances of the case and in particular to : ( a ) the length of , and the reasons for , the delay on the part of the plaintiff ; ( b ) the extent to which , having regard to the delay , the evidence adduced or likely to be adduced by the plaintiff or the defendant is or is likely to be less cogent than if the action had been brought within the time allowed by s11 or ( as the case may be ) by s12 ; ( c ) the conduct of the defendant after the cause of action arose , including the extent ( if any ) to which he responded to requests reasonably made by the plaintiff for information or inspection for the purpose of ascertaining facts which were or might be relevant to the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant ; ( d ) the duration of any disability of the plaintiff arising after the date of the accrual of the cause of action ; ( e ) the extent to which the plaintiff acted promptly and reasonably once he knew whether or not the act or omission of the defendant , to which the injury was attributable , might be capable at that time of giving rise to an action for damages ; ( f ) the steps , if any , taken by the plaintiff to obtain medical , legal or other expert advice and the nature of any such advice he may have received .
26 Top hair dressers flew in Paris salons of Carita and Alexandre ; Elizabeth Arden created a new make-up named Farah , to be given in kits to the guests ; Baccarat designed the crystal goblets ; Ceralene fashioned the place setting after a fifth century BC Persian ceramic ; Robert Hailland produced a cup-and-saucer service to be used just once by arriving guests ; and Porthault , one of the great French linen makers , made the private and state linens .
27 It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part :
28 A VETERAN police inspector caught drink driving after a day out with friends has quit the force , a court was told yesterday .
29 Ivan H. May of Hampstead Garden Suburb writes : ‘ As a 70-year-old full-time carer looking after a wife suffering from dementia , I do everything in the house : shopping , cooking , washing-up , cleaning , washing , ironing , bed-making , mending and paying the bills , not to mention doing the garden and most of the decorating .
30 Paul Cole sends Magic Ring back sprinting after the colt 's failure in the Greenham and his first target will be the Temple Stakes at Sandown .
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