Example sentences of "[adv] after the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What you mean is : there 's no chance of my being kept on after the three years are up . ’ |
| 2 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 3 | It was only after the two thieves dressed up as policemen had escaped last Sunday with treasures conservatively estimated at $200m that it was revealed that they were uninsured . |
| 4 | Eileen did n't improve much after the three months . |
| 5 | It did not help the Irish , either , that they may well have been winding down after the Five Nations Championship whereas New Zealand 's players were hitting top gear with early-season All Black trials . |
| 6 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 7 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 8 | The example illustrated in Fig. 561 is a purely timber log structure of the type built all over eastern Europe till long after the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | I suspect the left hook with which he floored Ali in their first bout and the controversy aroused when referee Harry Gibbs decided Bugner had outpointed him will remain important entries in British boxing long after the widely-publicised arguments between Eubank and Benn have faded from memory . |
| 10 | Though some of the writing and most if not all the compilation were done not so long after the notorious events surrounding the capture of Jerusalem in 587 or 586 , only in the little story of the bowl of lentil soup is Esau portrayed in a poor light . |
| 11 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 12 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 13 | Before retiring in 1951 , she had been director of the Army 's European relief project , arranging the return to Germany of refugees from Russia and elsewhere after the huge migrations at the end of the war in Europe , and was later secretary of the war graves ' department . |
| 14 | Not after the other things , I 've said . |
| 15 | He said police were concerned at the rise in assaults 61 last year compared to 33 the previous year but 58 were detained shortly after the alleged crimes , indicating most victims knew their assailants and were not accosted by strangers . |
| 16 | The other side seems to be led by Jon Kalb , a geologist at the University of Texas , who was a member of Johanson 's early expeditions but left shortly after the big discoveries because of what Kalb calls ‘ disputes … over scientific and management issues ’ . |
| 17 | That comment , made shortly after the 1951 elections , is sufficient to explain the split which gradually developed between the RPF parliamentarians and de Gaulle . |
| 18 | Just after the disabled games |
| 19 | Approximately 1,100 respondents were interviewed in November 1985 and 750 reinterviewed just after the local elections in May 1986 . |
| 20 | But the resignations of Norman Fowler in December 1989 and Peter Walker in March 1990 ( albeit for family reasons ) coming so soon after the major re-adjustments necessitated by Nigel Lawson 's departure in October , both unsettled the Cabinet and had a demoralising effect on backbenchers . |
| 21 | Throughout the eighteenth century peasant flight , resistance , murder , and revolt were endemic , and the incidence of peasant disturbance began to rise again soon after the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 22 | But soon after the Napoleonic Wars the incidence of peasant disturbances began to rise again : there was a serious outbreak in the Urals in 1835 and widespread violence in 1847 . |
| 23 | Soon after the Persian Wars , as we saw on p. 23 , King Leotychidas of Sparta led an expedition to Thessaly , and ended the tageia of the Aleuads ; at about the same time , Plutarch says , there was a Greek , perhaps a Spartan , fleet at Pagasai , whose strategic importance we have just noticed , and the Spartans tried to get control of the Amphictyony ( see p. 33 ; Plut . |
| 24 | The deputation which arrived soon after the unfortunate events that attended their arrival had made it quite clear that he should not surrender such precious captives . |
| 25 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 26 | SHARES in Psion leapt from 116p to 135p yesterday after the unlisted securities market-quoted computer maker announced a strong first quarter recovery in sales and profits on the back of its new Series 3 pocket computers . |
| 27 | Andrew Culf Three ambulance crews from Fulham dealt with emergencies yesterday after the 999 calls were put through to them . |
| 28 | They scuttled off after the other boys . |
| 29 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 30 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |