Example sentences of "[be] [verb] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
| 2 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 4 | In November 1990 Japan had reactivated a development loan programme to China which had been frozen after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 5 | The goods are owned after the last instalment . |
| 6 | Dwight Kronweiser had been born in nineteen forty-five , and had been named after the victorious Allied Commander in Europe , whom his parents , even then , foresaw as a future President of the United States , a new Ulysses S. Grant . |
| 7 | Wilcox , who had been frowning after the departing figure of Everthorpe , turned and almost smiled . |
| 8 | A longer holiday period away from each other is also valuable if you are looking after the patient full-time . |
| 9 | The book of Kings for instance must have been written after the last event it mentions — the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in 562 BC — yet it also relates the accession of Solomon , some 400 years earlier , as well as numerous events in between . |
| 10 | If we are to look after the legitimate interests of the preserved railways , one or two changes need to be made to the Bill . |
| 11 | On the way back to the Hankses ' cottage with Anna , Seb and the navvies met one of the gipsy women who had been enquiring after the missing girl in the village . |
| 12 | Unlike Khruschev , Gorbachev had been raised after the 1917 revolution , was less concerned with ideological radicalism and more interested in the protection and strengthening of the USSR than in an active Third World policy . |
| 13 | The simple harmonic and Morse oscillators are thus particular cases of this general anharmonic oscillator for which the power series has been truncated after the first and second terms , respectively . |
| 14 | A gun 's been recovered after the latest attack , in which a store manager was held captive for six hours . |
| 15 | He saw the indiscreet movement of the CI5 man across the road , and guessed that the man 's attention had been distracted after the long night 's watch , and he had missed the car 's departure . |
| 16 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 17 | If no more than the contents of medium silt , fine silt or clay are required , aliquots may be withdrawn after the appropriate time intervals and the relative abundance calculated from differences in weights of suspension in each . |
| 18 | Approval can not be given after the six-month period has elapsed . |
| 19 | ‘ He was very unlucky to be dropped after the Old Trafford Test last year , ’ said Emburey . |
| 20 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
| 21 | The files must in this case be named after the individual piece parts , ie PARTA to PARTE . |
| 22 | There was sufficient steam in the argument for the following correspondence to appear in the Standard five days later : ‘ We would suggest that the proposed new golf club should be named after the recent mutiny at Portsmouth and be called the ‘ Bow Knee Golf Club ’ . |
| 23 | Russian Turkomans are normally marketed as either Bokharas or Beshirs , depending on their design , and those made in Afghanistan are generally referred to as Afghans or Bokharas , although they may be named after the specific weaving village or tribe ( Kundous , Beshir , etc ) . |
| 24 | Now and then there were proposals for reforming the entire system , and it was even suggested that the 12 constellations of the Zodiac might be named after the 12 Apostles . |
| 25 | A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine . |
| 26 | CHANGES SHOULD NOT NORMALLY BE MADE AFTER THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THE TEACHING PERIOD . |
| 27 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 28 | No entry will be accepted after the last post on Friday 30 August , 1991 . |
| 29 | will largely be seen after the New Year 's Day holiday so essentially you could still that the first regional survey to have been largely compiled of the results drawn er er from the beginning of this year and , and the , and the , and you know you see some reference in the press release to estimates based o on our survey of manufacturing employment er er for the regions , those figures are consistent with our national figures on , on the trend in manufacturing employment and our short term forecast which as a matter of fact was publ published at the end of last month so results . |
| 30 | How often is project work , for teachers , put on a par with art and craft , or games : that is , something to be done after the major work of the school day , basic skill work , is finished ? |