Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very cool and quiet in the woods after the bland sunshine of the meadows . |
| 2 | More than 40 detectives were assigned to the cases after the attempted murder of Candice last June . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON chairman Dick Corden admitted he felt sorry for the fans after the disastrous 3–0 defeat at Torquay on Saturday . |
| 4 | There are two main ways of singing the songs after the first verse . |
| 5 | Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter . |
| 6 | It was the collective madness which gripped the Scots after the French defender Eric Dimeco was dismissed which proved their downfall . |
| 7 | ‘ I spent a lot of time speaking with Jean-Claude Olivier [ chief of French Yamaha importers Sonauto and their GP team ] in the months after the last GP . |
| 8 | The months after the initial furore over the Report 's publication were fairly quiet , particularly as far as the possibilities of legislation on the matter were concerned . |
| 9 | They could still manage Abends , wenn wir schlafen gehen , taught them by the nuns as a party piece , and then , indeed , they sounded like angels , though angels without much grasp of the words after the second line . |
| 10 | Knit two rows N/N , two rows CX/CX ( see Sample 2a ) throughout , making the buttonholes after the first row of the centre two rows N/N on the band . |
| 11 | WAYNE LARKINS , shunted into the sidings after the last of his six Test caps in 1981 , has been recalled to the England team for their one-day match against a Railway XI in Delhi today . |
| 12 | Originally founded as an anti-negro secret society in the years after the Civil War , the Klan spread rapidly in the 1920s , not only in the South but also in mid- and far-West . |
| 13 | Many of our spelling problems were caused by French scribes in the years after the Norman invasion , trying to symbolise English sounds in French spelling . |
| 14 | With the advent of agricultural owner-occupancy in the years after the Second World War and the departure of the landlords or their factors , their authority no longer had to be sought . |
| 15 | By the 1920s and 1930s , not to mention the years after the Second World War , the women formed an ageing group of unmarried women and widows , once more having little in common with the men at work , who by now would be younger and probably married . |
| 16 | The closest moral and practical precedent for what is needed is the Marshall Plan by which the US helped to restore Europe in the years after the Second World War . |
| 17 | This will include references to the post-1868 period but the main body of the study will be concentrated on the years after the Second World War . |
| 18 | Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group . |
| 19 | In the years after the Great Interruption , Danton 's motto of De l'audace , toujours de l'audace was always the battle-cry of English county players like Harold Gimblett of Somerset , Roy Marshall of Hampshire and Dicky Dodds of Essex . |
| 20 | Peasant rebellion was a constant possibility , as demonstrated by the agrarian risings in Galicia in 1846 , in southern Italy in 1848 , in Sicily in 1860 , and in Russia in the years after the Crimean War . |
| 21 | To reappraise the epidemiological findings reported by the Black Advisory Group concerning a possible excess of malignant disease , particularly of childhood acute lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphomas , in the vicinity of the Sellafield nuclear installation , and to determine whether any excess of malignant disease had occurred among people aged 0–24 years in the area in the years after the Black report — that is , from 1984 to 1990 . |
| 22 | Survivors not treated with acyclovir often report significant neurological deterioration over the years after the acute onset of infection . |
| 23 | Cost itself was not an insuperable difficulty , though the conditions of steerage travel across the ocean were , especially in the years after the Irish famine , notoriously horrible , if not actually murderous . |
| 24 | This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson . |
| 25 | Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . |
| 26 | In the years after the last War it was found that not only were the thinnest fibres strong , but , if they were carefully made , quite thick fibres could also show high strength . |
| 27 | In the years after the Twenty-One Demands Japanese governments tended to adopt a more indirect approach in their attempts to exert Japanese influence in China . |
| 28 | In the weeks after the 1981 earthquake , it discovered a jumble of these electric pulses superimposed on the normal electrical properties of the solid Earth . |
| 29 | never lived with the Samoans after the first week . |
| 30 | Two dogs were sent down the holes after the protected animals . |