Example sentences of "later [vb past] by " in BNC.
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1 | Curiously , in the United States there was an optimism and a new sense of confidence after Ronald Reagan became president ( a confidence later deflated by the Iranian arms fiasco ) . |
2 | The men in the trenches adored him because when there was no enemy in the air he would ‘ distract ’ them by hurling his red plane ( a colour scheme later appropriated by von Richthofen ) into terrifying — and strictly forbidden — aerobatics over the front line . |
3 | Earlier in 1946 Jones 's brilliance had cut short St Colman 's brave bid to capture their first MacRory Cup , but they persevered and three years later captained by Sean Blaney , Greg 's father , they won their first MacRory . |
4 | The first specimen to be formally described according to the rules laid down by Linnaeus ( and later codified by Strickland and others from 1842 on ) is the type , and these are carefully kept in great museums , which exchange duplicates after due comparison . |
5 | Previous Conservative acts of denationalization , such as iron and steel after 1951 ( later renationalized by Labour in 1967 ) and the sale of the Thomas Cook travel agency and Carlisle public houses under Mr Heath hardly refuted the broad continuity of post-war policy or Sir Keith Joseph 's complaints about the ratchet effect in this area . |
6 | Were the sites ancient inter-tribal meeting places , later sanctified by a religious presence , or did an existing sanctuary attract trades because of the volume of people attending ? |
7 | It was another dull day , but , suitably attired , she later went by taxi up to the house . |
8 | The company , with plants in the West Midlands , Oxford , Glasgow and Llanelli in south Wales , was sold for £150 million which British Aerospace later recouped by floating its half share of DAF-Leyland on the stock market . |
9 | But his greatest achievement was in the study of mathematics and logic with his paper , The Relation between the Logical Theory of Classes and the Geometrical Theory of Points ( 1890 ) , which anticipated and even extended arguments later propounded by Bertrand ( third Earl ) Russell [ q.v. ] in The Principles of Mathematics ( 1903 ) . |