Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New roads were developed soon after the arrival of the railway but fortunately the present recreation ground overlooking the sea was preserved from building . |
| 2 | The preliminary analyses of the survey were completed just after the discovery of the error and before corrections could be made . |
| 3 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 4 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 5 | Supplies of heavily-subsidised fertiliser were stopped immediately after the election and a federal development office was opened in Kota Bharu on March 1st . |
| 6 | Module leaders were interviewed shortly after the initial student interviews to assess academic expectations of the expectations of students . |
| 7 | Enzyme determinations were done immediately after the end of the experiments . |
| 8 | Perhaps , unfortunately , a fairly high proportion of the counts were made just after the 1962/63 winter when populations of many species were very low . |
| 9 | Evidently , the Soviets soon relented , as sightings of the advanced T-72 tank were noted soon after the war began , and visits to the USSR by the Iraqi leadership began to be registered once again . |
| 10 | On all of these cars the small wooden side lamp boxes were replaced soon after the war , by neat metal side lamps , pointed at the rear end like a torpedo . |
| 11 | Resistant strains of bacteria were detected soon after the widespread introduction of penicillin in the 1940s . |
| 12 | And carry on just as if er we were proceeding immediately after the proposed excellent introduction and as if the intervening weeks just had n't occurred . |
| 13 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 14 | Both Cliff and Dinah loved life in America so much , that although they were shipped home after the war , they both decided to move back , and they now live there with their families . |
| 15 | Girls could be seen riding slowly past with one hand on the handlebars , the other full of books which they were taking home after the morning 's lessons . |
| 16 | He said police were concerned at the rise in assaults 61 last year compared to 33 the previous year but 58 were detained shortly after the alleged crimes , indicating most victims knew their assailants and were not accosted by strangers . |
| 17 | Recently 55 more trade unionists have been arrested , yet those who were detained immediately after the 30 June coup have been neither interrogated , charged nor given an explanation of the reason why they are being held . |
| 18 | The fine pair of dogs on top of the gateposts of the present-day front door were taken away after the fire and put on the gateposts of a house near Mere , belonging to Bullen 's daughter-in-law 's second husband , Mr Chaffin . |
| 19 | Social democratic parties have existed in Europe for a century or more ; the Democratic and Republican parties in the US are well over a century old , and indeed have a certain continuity with earlier parties dating from the time of the American Revolution ; conservative parties on a mass basis were created soon after the emergence of social democracy in Europe ; and communist parties were formed on a world scale after the Russian Revolution . |
| 20 | Except for the occasional food-parcel from the United States , he would never have sought to diverge from the rationing system , which , like many other controls , were maintained long after the war ended . |
| 21 | Five more Brill 21E trucks were purchased immediately after the 1914/18 war and fitted to Nos. 36–40 in place of the Mountain & Gibson trucks which were disposed of . |
| 22 | Discussions with Bruce were initiated immediately after the Lincoln parliament of September 1327 , and the English seem to have been prepared to accept most of Bruce 's proposals . |
| 23 | The two 1973 elections , i.e. for Local Government as well as the Assembly , were held immediately after the advertising campaign and the electorate could concentrate on one method of voting , but since that time two Westminster elections were conducted by means of the X-vote , and it is possible that some voters may have been confused . |
| 24 | On the first day of the conference it was apparently agreed that Taiwan should be accepted as one of the Forum 's dialogue partners — those countries outside the South Pacific — currently the USA , UK , France , China , Canada , Japan and the European Communities — with which talks were held immediately after the conclusion of the heads of government conference . |
| 25 | The Crusade was formed shortly after the first march . |
| 26 | The sequence of deposits suggests that the loch was formed shortly after the melting of the last great ice sheet about 13,000 years ago when the land surface was barren arctic desert . |
| 27 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |
| 28 | In 1860 the present Thomas Street Church was completed just after the 1859 Revival . |
| 29 | It was reported that Samater , the outgoing Prime Minister , was reappointed only after the failure of efforts to bring into the post someone from the Issak tribe , whose appointment could suggest some degree of reconciliation in the civil war . |
| 30 | THE BOOKISH PORTFOLIO was liquidated shortly after the 30th September 1992 valuation . |