Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 2 | Measurements were carried out after the intake of 19.8 g psyllium or placebo in a randomised , crossover , double blind trial . |
| 3 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 4 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 5 | The holdings and rights of freeholders and tenants to common land were bought out after the survey and valuation of often hundreds of parcels of land and rearrangement of drainage , hedges , and roads ( Rackham 1985 ) , which increased demand for labour . |
| 6 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 7 | However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs . |
| 8 | Police were called in after the fourteen month old grey colt was found dead on a farm on road in Lincoln . |
| 9 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 10 | The monuments in Moscow to the revolutionary leaders which were taken down after the attempted coup last August have not been placed in the Museum of Totalitarian Art , as was stated . |
| 11 | 9/Face completed ; washes of paint from the crayon were put on after the eyebrows and eyelashes were drawn in . |
| 12 | Thirty of farmer Alan Gerrard 's brutes were put down after the weekend attack on Beverley Hurst , nine . |
| 13 | So potent is the tradition of Czech cafe society , that most cafes were shut down after the Communist takeover in 1948 . |
| 14 | Final proposals were sent out after the refinance steering committee , led by Barclays , agreed the documentation in a process which was originally started last March . |
| 15 | A very effective mailing of product samples was carried out after the launch of a number of new additions to a range of condiments plus repackaging of the whole range . |
| 16 | A Tokyo professor who studied secret papers , claimed the horror was hushed up after the war . |
| 17 | The conviction was wiped out after the Advocate-Depute , Roderick Macdonald , QC , did not oppose the appeal . |
| 18 | The so called Sling-shot lift was closed down after the accident . |
| 19 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 20 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 21 | It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer . |
| 22 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 23 | Taylor Woodrow was set up after the unintended sale of two houses by a 16-year old greengrocer 's son and his solicitor uncle . |
| 24 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 25 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 26 | It was thrown up after the war to house the car workers . |
| 27 | Noreen was kept on after the try-out week , but she knew that was only on the strength of Fred , the Stage Manager 's sympathetic report , and for the fact that she got on well with everyone in the company , especially Bernie . |
| 28 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
| 29 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |