Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] after a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polling for one Moslem seat was postponed after a candidate was shot dead before the vote . |
| 2 | The occupants , including the patient 's daughter , refused to open the door ; entry was gained after a panel in the door was broken and ( according to the Crown ) the appellants both assaulted the police officers . |
| 3 | Much of this land was purchased from the Crown ; other tracts were bought after a shareholder of a garden forced its division and sale . |
| 4 | The disease notifiable under the EC Plant Health Directive was identified after a suspect sample was sent to the Ministry of Agriculture for advisory identification . |
| 5 | The body was found after a man walked into a London police station this morning and made a statement . |
| 6 | A few years ago , 16 boys from a school in Somerset were arrested after a day-trip to Taunton turned into a shoplifting spree . |
| 7 | At dawn the death toll rose still further in the worst disaster since 1952 , when 13 people were killed after a car left the track at Weyberg , Rhineland , Germany . |
| 8 | FIVE people were hurt after a rogue rocket flew into the crowd at a firework display organised by the local fire brigade . |
| 9 | The alert was raised after a hole had been cut in the terminal 's perimeter security fence . |
| 10 | In June this year , a student was raped after a man followed her into toilets in St. Giles in the city centre . |
| 11 | The loan was refused after a valuation proved the house was not worth that amount . |
| 12 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 13 | POLICE are baffled after a gang stole 150 T-shirts — with Barry Manilow on them . |
| 14 | Special Branch officers and British Transport police were alerted after a train driver reported that a battered suitcase had been left on a train from Darlington . |
| 15 | Police were called after a prowler was spotted near the army married quarters in Ripon . |
| 16 | A BEER garden was evacuated after a pet goat unearthed a dummy hand grenade as it gnawed a thicket at the Exeter Inn , Honiton . |
| 17 | Although a unilateral lesion of the left or right hemisphere may impair the accuracy or speed of unilateral movements of both the contralateral and ipsilateral arm ( Wyke , 1968 ; Heap and Wyke , 1972 ; Haaland and Delaney , 1981 ) left sided lesions appear to produce greater deficits ( Wyke , 1971a ; Kimura , 1977a ; Kolb and Milner , 1981a ) or bilateral impairment on tasks in which only a contralateral deficit is observed after a right sided lesion ( Wyke , 1967 ; 197 lb ) . |
| 18 | Our study was retrospective and because the quality of general practitioners ' records varies and most records are destroyed after a patient dies , it was not possible to include such patients in our study . |
| 19 | The alarm was sounded after a member of public spotted the man drifting in the tiny dinghy just after 7.30pm . |
| 20 | The alarm was sounded after a member of the public spotted the man drifting in the tiny dinghy just after 7.30pm . |
| 21 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 22 | Jewellery worth £450 was taken after a thief got in through an open window . |
| 23 | Mr Huntington was stabbed after a group gatecrashed the party at Princess Alexandra Hospital , Harlow , Essex . |
| 24 | Garage blaze : Most of a garage was damaged after a car caught fire at a house in Durham Road , Stockton . |