Example sentences of "[is] [verb] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick in bringing about a change in attitudes towards marketing is to go after the easy stuff first , there is nothing to be gained from knocking your head against a brick wall . |
| 2 | Nippon Digital Equipment Corp is to go after the client-server market in Japan , using the bilingual DOS/V operating system on its personal computers and the VAX series of machines as servers . |
| 3 | Patrick , who joins Michael and EastEnders actress mum Lizzie Power for a family holiday in Sardinia on Wish You Were Here , was born with cerebral palsy and is recovering after a major hip operation which his father describes as ‘ monstrous ’ . |
| 4 | With rewards , the dog is treated after the desired behaviour , not before . |
| 5 | Little professional work with parents is undertaken after the compulsory school period . |
| 6 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 7 | On the short courses only one of each exercise is completed after the initial conversion and familiarisation flight . ’ |
| 8 | Celebrities have given a big welcome back to a theatre that 's reopened after a two hundred thousand pound pound refit . |
| 9 | Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban . |
| 10 | For the Compton family in Bicester life without a car has been the norm while their car is repaired after a serious accident . |
| 11 | John is looking after a sizeable vegetable garden single handed and has plans to extend considerably on to other land owned by the family . |
| 12 | other remark , which I ca n't let go unchallenged , that ninety percent of mental health work in the m community is looking after the worried well . |
| 13 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 14 | No prizes either for guessing his four-legged friend is named after a famous Liverpool manager . |
| 15 | The Madeleine Newton Fund for Alternative Cancer Research and Treatment is named after a primary school teacher who died of breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 32 . |
| 16 | The Piazza is named after the Piermarini fountain that stands at its centre . |
| 17 | The medal is named after the late Dr Eliot P. Joslin , who wrote the standard textbook on the treatment of diabetes . |
| 18 | The new day ward is named after the late Doris Field , whose money helped get it going . |
| 19 | Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love . |
| 20 | Titled the Leopoldo Cicognara Conference , it is named after the eary nineteenth-century Venetian ( d. 1834 ) who compiled the first bibliography of art-historical literature . |
| 21 | The palazzo is named after the rich merchant , Giova Battista Durini , for whom it was built . |
| 22 | The genus is named after the famous Greek philosopher , and inventor of the ‘ Archimedes screw ’ . |
| 23 | The Curie temperature is simply the temperature above which a substance can not retain a magnetic field in the absence of a generating process , and is named after the French physicist Pierre Curie ( 1859–1906 ) . |
| 24 | This is the Poynting-Robertson effect , and is named after the British physicist John Henry Poynting ( 1852–1914 ) and the American physicist Howard Percy Robertson ( 1903–1961 ) . |
| 25 | Chicago is named after the Indian word for the wild onions that flourish on the banks of Lake Michigan — Checagou . |
| 26 | It 's in the High Street in a restaurant that 's named after the old Right and Wrong Club in Edinburgh . |
| 27 | As well as providing pregnancy counselling to any girl at school up to the age of eighteen years , its ongoing work is to look after the social and educational needs of a small group of six or seven pregnant schoolgirls or school-age mothers who attend the unit every weekday for a period of twelve months . |
| 28 | This is shown after the two men come across Curley 's wife for the first time , and also Curley himself . |
| 29 | IBM is going after the scientific/technical crowd as well as those into workstation clustering and computing . |
| 30 | They joined other stars to celebrate the theatre 's reopening after a seven month long 200,000 pound facelift . |