Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] after [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mid-1990 its president and managing director were dismissed after revelations that the firm had issued guarantees for 400,000 million yen in unsecured loans to 40 different companies , of which 100,000 million yen had gone to companies linked to the Inagawa-kai , Japan 's second-largest organized crime syndicate . |
| 2 | TWO youngsters who were strangled after warnings that they could be at risk were put on a council child protection register in June , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 3 | The names are interesting too , the city fathers deciding to name much of the outside ring after sites made legendary by exploits of Italian soldiers in World War 1 — Montenero , Premuda , Monte Grappa , and so on — while many of the inner ring streets were named after women famous in the history of the city — Regina Margherita , Beatrice d'Este , Bianca Maria , and so on . |
| 4 | Corporal Paul Moreton , 28 , of Nuneaton , and Trooper Denis Brownhill , 20 , of Birmingham were named after relatives had been located . |
| 5 | I thought she was being sarky about my bouquet but then I realized all the rooms were named after flowers . |
| 6 | Training sessions for the sales office staff were moved after hours as the pressure to cope with both routine business and training became too strong . |
| 7 | Stoltenberg 's comments were made after talks in Strausberg near Berlin with his East German counterpart , Rainer Eppelmann , when it was agreed that " official relations " between the East and West German armed forces would be opened on June 1 , 1990 . |
| 8 | Ritual statements were made after atrocities , with party spokesmen ironically condemning ‘ evil men of violence ’ for subverting the democratic process . |
| 9 | It was the only horse to complete the race without mishap — three others were remounted after falls to fill the minor places . |
| 10 | The presence of HAPCs was suggestive of normal colonic function ; HAPCs were found after meals in all non-constipated subjects , but not in patients with myopathy or in most patients with neuropathy . |
| 11 | Police hurt Several police officers were hurt after demonstrators protesting against |
| 12 | Official reports of the affair said that one student died and 30 others were hurt after troops including members of the presidential guard attacked the university during the night of May 11-12 , 1990 . |
| 13 | Two more people were detained after incidents yesterday afternoon . |
| 14 | In the British Medical Journal a Bristol hospital claimed that 24 car drivers were admitted after accidents in February , 18 less than in the same month in 1982 . |
| 15 | The measures , among those originally proposed by the government in July [ see pp. 38289 ; 38338 ] , were passed after negotiations , mediated by Shehabuddin Ahmed , between the ruling Bangladesh National Party ( BNP ) and the opposition Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina Wajed . |
| 16 | Overall when bicarbonate or alkali outputs from the oesophagus were determined after deductions for contaminating saliva and gastric fluid , there was a good correlation between the two methods . |
| 17 | Expectations of an early cut in German interest rates were dampened after reports that Germany Finance Minister Theo Waigel and the president of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , had warned that continued inflationary pressures were likely to keep rates high in order to maintain a strong market . |
| 18 | The elections were held after attempts by Talabani and Barzani to negotiate a new autonomy agreement with the Iraqi government reached a stalemate in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 19 | The talks between Israel and Jordan were held after weeks of renewed speculation about the possible declaration of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation . |
| 20 | The amorous contortions of Sex , the rock star 's naughty book , were not only stocked by the department store , but sold out instantly , while the volume on the great American photographer published by Jonathan Cape was withdrawn after protests by dozens of shocked customers . |
| 21 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |
| 22 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 23 | Melvin Bernhardt , who had directed the show in Cincinnati , was sacked after differences of opinion with Dustin . |
| 24 | How many times did wee Norrie tell us that the only thing standing in the way of recovery was the uncertainty caused by the election when in truth the economy was wrecked after years of mismanagement , the pound weak because our manufacturing base had been destroyed ? |
| 25 | The threat of widespread strikes in the engineering industry was averted after negotiators for the IG Metall union and the employers ' federation Gesamtmetall in northern Baden-Württemberg agreed at midnight on May 17-18 on a 21-month settlement . |
| 26 | The announcement of the commuting of death sentences was made after talks in London between Shaikh Saad and the United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major . |
| 27 | Permission to record the interview was sought after subjects had indicated willingness to participate . |
| 28 | The billet , on the fifth floor of Steel House , the Employment building in Tothill St , Westminster , was selected after discussions with Ms Richardson which took place under the customary pre-election rules . |
| 29 | One incidental result of this was that Indirect Rule , the proud and mysterious creation of innumerable men-on-the-spot , upon which it was forbidden to the uninitiated to look , was transformed after years of scrutiny by metropolitan experts into a uniform system of local government , whereby Britain hoped to bring into the orbit of her unresented influence the non-traditional elements which had made their appearance in African society . |
| 30 | Lynx was sued after claims about conditions at a mink farm in Halifax , West Yorks , run by Ukrainian-born Leo Sawrij . |