Example sentences of "[noun] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Income after all taxes ’ is the measure of income after the above taxes , and taxes such as the poll tax , are deducted . |
| 2 | From this small beginning , Mr. Shipsey went on to greater things for we used to hear of his progress after the monthly meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters as both Dad and his friend were Past Chief Rangers . |
| 3 | She and Marie-Claire and Monique sat , heavy , sulky , self-absorbed , graceless whilst Paul-Marie darted and chattered like a squirrel after the scaly balls and his parents sipped their white port and admired him . |
| 4 | These veterans had originally been recruited into the Roman army as heavy cavalry after the Sarmatian wars fought by Marcus Aurelius in the middle Danube . |
| 5 | Mr Day had been with the club since the heady days of the Wembley play offs and he brought to the club new hope in the shape of player manager , Glenn Hoddle after the financial scandles which shook the County Ground . |
| 6 | Not the least fascinating aspect of the story , which broke the day after France 's quarter final defeat by Switzerland — and barely three months after the memorable celebrations which had accompanied their winning of the trophy for the first time in 59 years — was that although Noah 's decision was said to have been known to his players and coaches several weeks earlier , no-one apparently bothered to tell French Tennis president , Philippe Chatrier . |
| 7 | Islington appointed a foster mother , Margery Thiman , to carry out the independent inquiry in February — more than two months after the original complaints . |
| 8 | Hamish Deans and his son George , who were removed from their positions as chairman and vice chairman at the club in May , were on Wednesday charged with fraud after an eight-month police investigation into the club 's affairs . |
| 9 | His switch back to the north is a boost after the recent moves by so many of England 's top players . |
| 10 | It may be that Chilperic 's death came to be seen in a new light after the Burgundian wars of the 520s and 530s . |
| 11 | The revolution in painting , 2 : wall-painting and vase-painting after the Persian wars |
| 12 | While he welcomed this new-found enthusiasm for Broadstairs after the gloomy events of the past few days , this rowdy pink-faced band , hardly recognisable as the distinguished gathering of Literary Lionisers , was not to his taste . |
| 13 | The superb shots were chosen from a sea of entries which flooded into our offices after the Tall Ships ' visit this summer . |
| 14 | Michael Middleton , reviewing the exhibition in The Spectator , found Minton 's looser touch and greater directness welcome after the near-academic portraits of the preceding years . |
| 15 | He was also a builder and developer of culture , and worked endlessly to set Germany upon a firm governmental and financial footing after the internal struggles that had long divided the German territories against one another . |
| 16 | Making all decisions and directing all developments through his estate and colliery stewards , Lowther vigorously expanded his collieries , selling their produce to ships freighting to Dublin , and planned and developed the port town of Whitehaven , the first planned town built in England after the middle ages . |
| 17 | The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman . |
| 18 | These three periods are the second quarter of the eighteenth century , the two decades after the Napoleonic Wars , and the so-called Great Depression of the late Victorian period . |
| 19 | Tolstoy wrote ‘ War and Peace ’ several decades after the Napoleonic battles he described . |
| 20 | Work has not started yet because our tree feller has been heavily involved in clearance work after the recent storms . |
| 21 | Somerset were healing their wounds after the tempestuous exits of Viv Richards , Joel Garner and Ian Botham . |
| 22 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 23 | Central 's fraud officers were called in by Falkirk after an independent auditors ' report on the club 's finances . |
| 24 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 25 | He tip-toed across the studio floor and peeped up the corridor after the marching men . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The medico-moral strategy was consolidated in the period after the initial reforms of the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 28 | MANCHESTER United and Aston Villa are to play at Windsor Park on May 12 — a few days after the final fixtures in what has been a fiercely contested inaugural Premier League battle between them and Norwich City . |
| 29 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 30 | Guillaume was one of five people charged on Monday after an eight-week police operation . |