Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxieties about the START treaty and Russia 's financial capacity to meet its provisions , and also those of a more radical accord concluded with the USA in June [ see pp. 38985-86 ] , were compounded after the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Boris Gomov acknowledged that the government had thus far found only part of the funds needed to implement the 30 per cent cut in nuclear arsenals required under START . |
| 2 | The first bogies used at Wolverton were designed after the American model , and were constructed like the underframe then in use , partly of iron and partly of timber . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The subsequent outrage from conservationists worldwide spread the gruesome story of Iki Island around the globe and the drives were curtailed after the international condemnation that followed the widespread publicity of the incident . |
| 5 | Today , half of the dwellings you see around you were built after the Second World War and two out of three are owner-occupied . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | To achieve optimal diagnostic accuracy all initial diagnostic and interventional endoscopies were done or supervised by very experienced members of the staff and virtually all patients were re-examined after the initial interventional endoscopy . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Central Asia 's ethnically based republics were invented after the 1917 revolution , their artificial borders drawn up in the 1920s and 1930s , leaving thousands of Uzbeks , Kirgiz , Kazakhs and others in the ‘ wrong ’ republic . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The first changes of net water and ion transport were observed after the second or third hour after administration of cholera toxin . |
| 14 | In September 1991 it had effectively dissolved itself when new union structures were created after the failed coup [ see p. 38415 ] . |
| 15 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 16 | Relations between the federal government and the PBS were strained after the 1985 state elections when the PBS ousted the Berjaya party ( Bersatu Rakyat Jelata Sabah , then a federal coalition member — see p. 33778 ) . |
| 17 | Fifteen years were lost after the 1966 flood in sterile discussion , while the first special law for Venice ( no. 171 , 16 April 1973 ) proved completely unworkable . |
| 18 | Negotiations aimed at settling Iran 's long-standing financial dispute with France [ see p. 37929 ] were suspended after the Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati , who visited France on July 2-4 , failed to sign a formal agreement . |
| 19 | This is based on a true story that shocked Paris society when a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer were imprisoned after the former was ‘ accused of passing information to China after he fell in love with Mr Shi , whom he believed for 20 years to be a woman ’ . |
| 20 | In looking at the way in which schools and colleges were managed after the 1988 Act , the Commission pointed out that LEAs would have a less directive role but would still have to monitor the services of schools and colleges . |
| 21 | Unity Campaign Committees were established after the official launching of the Campaign at Manchester . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I was subdued after the preprandial violence . |
| 24 | Andrew first lost out to Dawe in 1989 , when he was dropped after the semi-final victory over Warwickshire . |
| 25 | It was built by Peter Parler between 1370 and 1387 , but was rebuilt after the great fire by Ulrico Aostalli in 1579–87 . |
| 26 | The town 's Capuchin friary was the first founded in Switzerland ( 1581 ) to strengthen the Counter Reformation movement which Uri strongly espoused ; the church was rebuilt after the great fire . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 29 | This was done after the basic stress analysis work had been carried out . |
| 30 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |