Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] after the " in BNC.

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1 In ordinary lists of the fields of sociology it gets in , if at all , as a very late entry : not only after the hard stuff of class , industry and politics , of the family or of crime , but as a miscellaneous heading after the more defined fields of the sociology of religion , education and knowledge .
2 The systems planning team will have to ensure that rewards come during and not only after the full information systems project is implemented .
3 Coincidently , the report was published not long after the Government 's announcement of its intention to introduce commonhold legislation ( see Information Circular , August 1991 ) , which is aimed at strengthening the rights of existing leaseholders .
4 Thus not long after the start of NEP , in a province as sleepy as Kursk , we find already the seeds of socio-economic decay , from a Marxist point of view ( Yakovlev 's ) , leading to possible political difficulties for the centre .
5 Both leaders were caught short by Mr Kohl 's speech to the Bundestag not long after the opening of the Berlin Wall , in which he threw his weight behind German unification .
6 The Syntagma grew out of an interest Gassendi formed , not long after the publication of the Exercises , in the Greek philosopher Epicurus .
7 Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands .
8 That was not long after the Second World War broke out .
9 It was not long after the test that Nichols called Dustin from Hollywood to say , ‘ I 've seen the rushes .
10 ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . )
11 The pattern was most conspicuous in the loyalist working-class urban districts from not long after the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ until the second general strike of May 1977 .
12 It was not long after the autumn of 1977 , that things began to look very bleak for the Romanians .
13 For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out .
14 Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent .
15 Not long after the last regional ITV company went on air , the focus of interest shifted back to the BBC .
16 This was an income support scheme specifically for artists , which was set up not long after the war in order to ensure state sponsorship of the arts .
17 Munch made the première recording not long after the war and , as is so often the case , that brings the whole atmosphere of the period as well as the work alive .
18 The monastery had been founded in the fourth century , not long after the death of St Paul the Egyptian who , like his contemporary Antony , had been a desert ascetic .
19 The earliest aryballoi have abstract linear decoration , but it is on this shape , linked to the eastern trade , that the first oriental motives appear in Greek vase-decoration , perhaps not long after the middle of the eighth century .
20 Parsons just disappeared , not long after the fire at Mountpelier lodge .
21 All of today 's living organisms derive from primitive forms of life which first appeared on earth not long after the birth of the planet itself , perhaps some four billion years ago .
22 Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear .
23 Pupils in independent schools ( see Chapter 5 ) form a small percentage of all school pupils — about 7% of boys , 6% of girls in England and Wales in 1988 , which represents a decline from the percentage not long after the war ( 1951 ) of 8% of boys ( 9% if direct grant schools are included ) .
24 Not long after the nomes moved into the quarry a fox was surprised and delighted to come across a couple of unwary berry-gatherers , which it ate .
25 It was not long after the unearthing of the Phillips curve that economists and , later , policy makers came to grasp the full force of what they thought to be its implications for the conduct of demand management by the monetary and fiscal authorities .
26 May I correct Mr MacLaren on one small historical point where he states that ‘ the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War ’ ?
27 Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War .
28 I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks .
29 I expect you know that Joan was killed in a road accident over 20 years ago , not long after the death of her husband .
30 Nor was there any likelihood of a spontaneous revolt against the Nazi regime in Germany — not even after the overthrow of Mussolini in Italy in the summer of 1943 .
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