Example sentences of "been [verb] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 2 | The ANC demanded " total and verifiable " evidence that hit squad activities had been stopped after a prominent black lawyer was killed on Feb. 15 by a booby-trapped tape-recorder posted to his Soweto home . |
| 3 | A formal Iraqi undertaking not to interfere with helicopter inspections , issued to the UN Security Council on Sept. 24 , appeared subsequently to have been withdrawn after the government informed the Security Council on Sept. 26 that it would not endorse such inspections until further discussions with the UN-IAEA commission . |
| 4 | But worries over its future have been allayed after Darlington college stepped in to subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher at the unit to ensure it can continue its daytime classes . |
| 5 | Good evening , first tonight demolition work on a Cotswold hotel has been halted after fighting broke out between building workers and demonstrators . |
| 6 | PS : Things are not too good at home — your Mother is well , but the house has been repossessed after I lost my job . |
| 7 | where the retailer failed to insure automobiles which had been repossessed after the consumer had missed payments on the credit arrangements provided by a finance company . |
| 8 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 9 | A man who was running his taxi business from his home has been interviewed after complaints were received about parked cars . |
| 10 | A previously planned visit to Spain by the Moroccan king had been cancelled after Spain voted in November 1988 in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution proposing the organization of a referendum [ see p. 36780 ] . |
| 11 | It was announced on Aug. 26 that the trial of Erich Mielke , the former East German State Security Minister , for the murder of two policemen [ see p. 38199 ] had been cancelled after psychiatric examinations showed that at 83 he was unfit to stand trial . |
| 12 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 13 | PROPOSALS to stop people drinking in public places in Colchester have been dropped after police said that their existing powers were adequate . |
| 14 | Furthermore a clause in the draft of the bill which would have allowed the use of state school premises after school hours for religious instruction had been dropped after the Supreme Soviet had failed to reach agreement on it after passing the whole bill at first reading on Sept. 26 . |
| 15 | A nurse , who claims her life has been ruined after her knee-cap was shattered in a fall at a superstore , has lost her fight for compensation . |
| 16 | At Wormleighton , studied in great detail by Professor Harry Thorpe , the fishponds must have been built after the village had been abandoned , as they overlie the village street . |
| 17 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 18 | Two weeks earlier , on March 15 , Mehrdad Kowkabi , an Iranian student held in the UK for 15 months , had been deported after a court dropped charges of arson against him , and Iranian officials had been quoted as saying that the government might respond to this " positive step " by releasing Cooper . |
| 19 | The motion having been made after half-past Two o'clock and the debate having continued for half an hour , Mr. Deputy Speaker — adjourned the House without Question put , pursuant to the Standing Order . |
| 20 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
| 21 | Euro MP Stephen Hughes is taking up the case of lorry driver Bob Elder , 47 , of South View , Tantobie , Stanley , who faces financial ruin because his truck has been impounded after he was involved in a fatal accident in Italy . |
| 22 | THE hopes of a campaigning church minister have been dashed after John Major failed to intervene in closure plans for eight old people 's homes . |
| 23 | SECURITY procedures have been upgraded after thieves stole keys to 500 old people 's homes in Darlington . |
| 24 | SECURITY procedures have been upgraded after thieves stole keys to the homes of 500 old people in Darlington . |
| 25 | Six weeks earlier Lewin had been bailed after an 80mph police chase . |
| 26 | But just two weeks before his death , the couple had been celebrating after a last-ditch nationwide appeal found a donor liver to save the life of their baby . |
| 27 | A main post office has been closed after burglars stole tens of thousands of pounds . |
| 28 | This sum had first been mentioned in January 1991 as the amount necessary to fund the absorption of Soviet immigrants in Israel , and in February a smaller US loan guarantee to fund the housing of immigrants had only been approved after the Israeli authorities had undertaken not to use the funds in the occupied territories [ see p. 38023-24 ] . |
| 29 | The ICJ statement of April 14 cited Resolution 748 ( which had been approved after the Libyan submission had first been made to the ICJ ) and said that obligations of the various parties with respect to that resolution " prevail over their obligations under any other international agreement " . |
| 30 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |