Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last autumn Mr Alton threatened to stand down after the party 's Harrogate conference endorsed a strong pro-abortion line . |
| 2 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 3 | Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’ |
| 4 | Claims that English in education could offer some more or less democratic alternative to popular culture began to appear immediately after the war . |
| 5 | The situation had begun to deteriorate markedly after the elections of February 1936 returned an coalition of Liberal republicans , socialists , anarchists , communists and Trotskyists to power , even though the right-wing parties had won a small popular majority . |
| 6 | The report also suggest that there will need to be a greater commitment to wardening , monitoring and maintenance in future , if the situation is not to deteriorate again after the completion of repairs . |
| 7 | The Irish had first come to Lancashire in significant numbers in the middle years of the eighteenth century , and their ranks began to swell considerably after the 1846 potato famine . |
| 8 | Sartre and de Beauvoir had to go elsewhere after the Liberation . |
| 9 | The Party was very conscious of the fact that in spite of its large majority it had fared very badly in the inner urban areas , and it was without question this result which prompted Mrs Thatcher to state immediately after the election that policies for the inner city were to have top priority . |
| 10 | She felt work with women was indispensable , not only for the trade union movement but as part of a longer educational process which would enable women to participate fully after the triumph of the FDR-FMLN . |
| 11 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 12 | The whole affair , however , failed to gain the status of a diplomatic issue and started to calm down after the New Year holiday , leaving bad feeling between different groups of students . |
| 13 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to calm down after the rush hour this evening . |
| 14 | Indo-Soviet trade , which had been increasing rapidly , was expected to grow further after the signing of a trade protocol worth Rs70,000 million in 1989 , a 35 per cent increase over the sum for 1988 . |
| 15 | The children 's Curators — the lawyers appointed by the court to look solely after the children 's interests — had also been in favour of the children being heard in Inverness . |
| 16 | three years ago , they actually announced first round dates which would have allowed for such a break and only changed their mind after being petitioned by a group of players who had been persuaded by ATP to say they were unhappy to play immediately after the Open . |
| 17 | Added to these problems , their voices are too squeaky and high-pitched for the telephone operator to hear even after the Doctor 's crew have managed to lift a telephone receiver from its rest . |
| 18 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 19 | Lord Peyton has the right to stick to his guns and he 's disinclined to give in after the majority he won last time . |
| 20 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is the historic old houses you are likely to recall long after the memory of the well kept gardens , water sports , smart promenades and bathing pools have faded . |
| 22 | These three countries agreed to cooperate soon after the Second World War . |
| 23 | This encounter can , if the GM wishes , be created to run shortly after the encounter with the Ghosts ( see The Unquiet Dead , above ) , just as the adventurers feel that they are probably safe for the night . |
| 24 | Even where it is possible to clear up after the day 's work , another couple of unpaid hours work is added to the women 's costs and subtracted from those of her employer . |
| 25 | Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse . |
| 26 | The temporary monopoly provides , before the fact , the assurance that if the search for a new discovery is successful the inventor will be able to cash up after the fact . |
| 27 | They had to journey from Heathrow to Edinburgh by overnight coach and check out of their Edinburgh hotel two hours before the kick-off because they could not afford to remain there after the match . |
| 28 | He could , perfectly casually have asked Lorrimer to stay on after the meeting ; why had n't he ? |
| 29 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 30 | The directors Jim Johnston and Sandy Moffat are to stay on after the Deanses agreed that an independent chairman be appointed to the board . |