Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] after a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Macedonian government offered its resignation on July 16 after a vote of no confidence was carried by 91 votes to two with seven abstentions in the Macedonian Assembly on July 7 . |
| 2 | Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive . |
| 3 | Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair , London , in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive . |
| 4 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 5 | Little real progress was achieved , however , and the FMLN broke off peace negotiations on Nov. 2 after a trade union headquarters was blown up by a car bomb [ see pp. 37037-38 ] . |
| 6 | It began inauspiciously with the burning of Bearn , a ‘ patrician ’ of the king in Seletun by the duces ( ealdormen ) Osbald and Aethelheard on 25 December 780 ( ASC D , s.a 779 ) , and it ended with the assassination of the king at Scythlecester ( perhaps Chesters ) near Hadrian 's Wall on 23 September 788 after a conspiracy had been formed by Sicga , Aelfwald 's ‘ patrician ’ and principal lay representative at the legatine council of 786 ( ASC D , s.a. 788 ) . |
| 7 | Earlier this year five other guests were awarded more than £6 million after a jury heard 80 per cent of the rooms in a South Carolina hotel had spyholes . |
| 8 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
| 9 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 10 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 11 | Justice without immediacy is justice perverted , not least when the guilty go free after a case has lapsed because the credibility of identity evidence has been undermined by delay . |
| 12 | It was closed in March 1990 after a piece of the overhead machinery crashed onto the platform beneath . |
| 13 | The Congress ( I ) government headed by W. A. Sangma resigned in late March 1990 after a vote of no confidence was carried . |
| 14 | Laura 's life was saved by the 15-hour operation on June 10 after an appeal raised £350,000 , including £150,000 from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | About 400 people were evacuated from a Royal Air Force base at Stanmore , north London , on June 21 after a patrol discovered a bomb , which later exploded . |