Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] after the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French restrictions on an African press were lifted after the Second World War , and between 1945 and independence in 1960 thirty-six newspapers emerged and disappeared in Abidjan alone . |
| 2 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |
| 3 | ‘ Some residents who were moved after the last round of home closures are now faced with losing their homes a second time , ’ said Mr Common . |
| 4 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 5 | Michael 's sister Susan Priestley , 39 , said last night : ‘ We were told after the last appeal that this one was n't likely to succeed but we live in hope . ’ |
| 6 | He wrote the opening and closing signature tunes for the program , but they were dumped after the first season and replaced with ‘ something a little more distinctive ’ . |
| 7 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 8 | The first changes of net water and ion transport were observed after the second or third hour after administration of cholera toxin . |
| 9 | The knights engaged in close combat but the jousting was cancelled after the first few contests as the horses were unsure of their footing in the mud and consequently the inept efforts of the knights produced only laughter from the spectators . |
| 10 | In fact , the Empire was dissolved after the First World War into several new nations , though this was probably due as much to the policies of the victorious nation states as to the strength of indigenous nationalist movements . |
| 11 | The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% . |
| 12 | The village hall was built after the First World War and serves the community 's needs . |
| 13 | In 1903 it was deserted by the master stevedores , who formed their own association and in 1913 a new organization came into being , the Employers ' Association of the Port of Liverpool , which stood aloof from the National Maritime Board until it was reconstituted after the first world war . |
| 14 | They were situated in Coniscliffe Road ( extant ) , Northgate , North Road ( both disappeared since the Fifties ) , near the gateway to the East Mount mansion in Haughton Road ( disappeared when East Mount was demolished after the Second World War ) , and two at either end of the Bank Top Cut ( vanished when the cut was widened in the 1930s ) . |
| 15 | Continuing with the estate map , at Halling Bottom on the corner of Vicarage Road , there stands one house , this was the house known as Forge Cottage which was demolished after the last war . |
| 16 | In contrast , none of the single stones larger than 30 mm was fragmented after the first session . |
| 17 | Hardly a word was exchanged after the first greeting . |
| 18 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 19 | If tolerated , a normal diet was introduced after the second day . |
| 20 | If respectability was undermined after the Second World War by married women refusing dependence and returning to waged work while also having children , it is being undermined again by the new wave of dole-queue mothers who find a measure of independence in motherhood . |
| 21 | The suburban southern venue for the selection board is more than just convenient ( a sortie into Lancashire was abandoned after the second session ) , it is a metaphor for the new style of the party . |
| 22 | Genetic screening , a legacy of the eugenics movement , was invented after the second world war and brought to medicine by eugenicists eager to ease public acceptance . |
| 23 | But although Christine was exhausted after the first six weeks , Anna has brought great joy into their lives . |
| 24 | Turner was arrested after the first offence but released on bail and then carried out the second offence . |
| 25 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 26 | Despite these qualifications from those immediately concerned , a live studio discussion was interpolated after the second , with three practitioners of the orthodox — Ian McColl , professor of surgery at Guy 's , Professor T. J. McElwaine , of the Royal Marsden , and Dr Walter Bodmer , director of research for the Imperial Cancer Fund — being ranged against , though they might demur about the word ‘ against ’ , Barbara Kidman , a broadcaster , journalist , cancer sufferer and author of a book on the alternative approach : and Dr Dick Richards , a physician and author . |
| 27 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 28 | ‘ No , I was barred after the first one . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We were stunned five years ago to find the use of the whip was banned after the last fence or hurdle , or in the final furlong of a flat race , ’ he said . |