Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] after a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worthwhile objectives can be expected only after a listing of what each partner could bring to a relationship . |
| 2 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 3 | Services have been slashed already after a £3m pruning , with the final blow being the closure of public toilets , when Saltburn was the worst hit which infuriated the town 's fundraising champion Jackie Taylor . |
| 4 | Batty , who was carried off after a tackle by Stewart Robson , added : ‘ I am just relieved I have n't broken it . ’ |
| 5 | It was picked up after a couple of rings . |
| 6 | He also said he is ‘ very optimistic ’ about the NCR computer division , where orders from Europe recently have picked up after a period of extreme softness . |
| 7 | That was sorted out after a while . |
| 8 | If this is carried out after a period of exercise your dog may readily remain in this position since it may be relatively tired . |
| 9 | By 1937 , as a result of migration from rural Kaszubia , an influx of unemployed people from nearby Elbing and Marienburg , and the large number of Jews in transit through the city who had become trapped there after a change in US immigration policy , there were about 17,000 Poles — including Kaszubians , Danzig Poles , Polish immigrants and Polish Jews — living in the urban districts . |
| 10 | They had done so after a period of co-operation and consultation with East Germany which looks in retrospect like a laying of the groundwork for what was to come in both Germanys . |
| 11 | Most of the potholes and caves on Leck Fell and elsewhere occur in hollows and shallow valleys and are revealed only after a search , but the next great chasm in the line of march is identified by a fence and can not be missed . |
| 12 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 13 | He was bold into every fence , but did n't pull , and even managed to canter the little one-stride double ( sited just after a corner and with 24ft between the elements , it was the ideal opportunity ) . |
| 14 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 15 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 16 | Michael hightails it out of town , 10,000 dollars better off , only to be turned back after a road accident . |
| 17 | The second reactor at the Ignalina nuclear power station has been closed down after a leak of radioactive steam . |
| 18 | A CHEMICAL alert was sparked yesterday after an acid leak at Bank Quay Railway Station , Warrington . |
| 19 | It was like seeing a room that 's been tidied up after a death . |
| 20 | My own views as to the proper limits of jurisdictional control will be spelt out after a consideration of the case law . |
| 21 | Inescapably , they must retain such things as overall financial control , a determination of the size of a school 's teaching and ancillary staff , and major decisions about buildings , although many conclusions on these matters are reached only after an ebb and flow of consultation and representation . |
| 22 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 23 | There was nothing sinister about this change — he had simply reverted to the name he was born under after a search to find the identity of his real parents . |
| 24 | To produce immunity , live sporozoites must be injected intravenously after an irradiation dosage that allows limited intra-hepatic development , suggesting that expression of early liver-stage antigens is required for protection . |
| 25 | The old man was paralysed now after a stroke and she supposed that she ought to feel sorry for him lying there in his hospital bed , useless as a felled tree , mouth slavering , only the angry eyes moving in impotent fury from face to watching face . |
| 26 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 27 | Full diplomatic relations would be re-established only after a meeting at ministerial level which would be held after the resolution of the remaining issues . |
| 28 | THE one-day international between Pakistan and India was abandoned yesterday after a demonstration in Karachi 's National Stadium turned riotous . |
| 29 | The Prince of Wales established an award for innovation in 1985 and his working group on innovation was set up after a conference at Highgrove last year . |
| 30 | So far only three schools in Wales have opted out after a ballot of parents . |