Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 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 .
5 His switch back to the north is a boost after the recent moves by so many of England 's top players .
6 It may be that Chilperic 's death came to be seen in a new light after the Burgundian wars of the 520s and 530s .
7 The revolution in painting , 2 : wall-painting and vase-painting after the Persian wars
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman .
11 Work has not started yet because our tree feller has been heavily involved in clearance work after the recent storms .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 He tip-toed across the studio floor and peeped up the corridor after the marching men .
15 The medico-moral strategy was consolidated in the period after the initial reforms of the 1830s and 1840s .
16 It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled .
17 And it had all been an act , a ploy to save them both embarrassment after the mild indiscretions of the previous evening .
18 In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme .
19 Losses per share after the exceptional provisions worsened to 39.42p from 7.53p .
20 Drawing breath : Brian Semple ( 8 ) and Andrew McCullough ( 8 ) , both from Belfast , take a rest after the National Children 's Fun Run .
21 Basal and postprandial serum gastrin concentrations and basal pepsinogen A and C values were measured the day before , the last day ( day five ) , of treatment , and on the day after the various courses of treatment .
22 Nowhere was the Right-On bandwagon more apparent than in London , where it culminated in the elevation of Ken Livingstone to the leadership of the controlling Labour group on the Greater London Council the day after the local elections in March 1981 .
23 The relative stabilization of the economy after the wild fluctuations in the business cycle in the previous decade , together with the defeat of Chartism and early militant trade-unionism , assisted social reformers in their attempts to treat issues as discrete and separate , rather than interdependent .
24 Just as Unionists had rejected an Irish compromise in 1914 after years of commitment to Ulster , so they could not envisage anything short of total victory after the national sacrifices since 1914 .
25 The same considerations of ideological convergence in broad terms and participation in public controversy encouraged the development of antislavery argument after the Napoleonic Wars in directions only lightly indicated in the early stages of the anti-slave trade argument .
26 A BRITISH tourist was repeatedly raped on a South African beach , just one week after the savage murders of Elizabeth Over and Julie Godwin .
27 If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute .
28 It has to be understood that the enormous 1982 crop was a welcome relief after the miserly vintages of 1978 , 1980 and 1981 .
29 Last Friday Geraldine and Alan went to bed after the Golden Girls .
30 He did not marry again until much later , when he was coming back to political life after the economic changes of 1962 , which made the shipping more important .
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