Example sentences of "a [noun sg] after the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gunners ' Premier League challenge is virtually a write-off after the Bank Holiday Monday defeat at Aston Villa made it seven games without a win . |
| 2 | Direct responsibility for DMS policy in England and Wales was initially that of a panel ( a panel for Scotland remained separate for several years ) and this became a Board after the Committee for Arts and Social Studies was split in 1978 and a Committee for Business and Management Studies created — ; a decision which produced some controversy . |
| 3 | No but they did n't use it for they did n't have a license then , they only got a license after the war you see . |
| 4 | I 'm having two bridesmaids , aged five and six at my wedding and would like to give them a present after the event . |
| 5 | The second group , however , when asked to name a vegetable after the recitation , all answered ‘ carrot ’ . |
| 6 | Which would make a change after the headmaster . |
| 7 | er sent us a photograph after the war was over , but since then , since we 've tried to find him , we 've been told the man 's never existed at all . |
| 8 | A trap is a specially-shaped piece of pipe in which water remains to make a seal after the basin , sink or whatever has emptied . |
| 9 | The centre back wore a head bandage over six stitches in a cut after the break and said : ‘ Shearer is a handful , no doubt of that . |
| 10 | Honestly , always was , ver-near Divorce Proceedings every time I went out with emdy for a Campari after the Country Dancing … |
| 11 | The prosecution abandoned plans to call Mrs Taylor as a witness after the judge , Mr Justice Latham , said families of the victims should not be exposed to any more trauma than was absolutely necessary . |
| 12 | Two masked men appeared from a ditch and threatened the driver and his passenger with a shotgun after the van stopped at traffic lights behind a red Vauxhall Belmont car on the A76 Mauchline to Auchinleck road around 4:45am . |
| 13 | His involvement in such a ceremony after the death of Edmund Ironside is even more likely . |
| 14 | However , if we keep on going , extrapolating backwards into the past , when we get to about a tenth of a second , or a hundredth of a second after the beginning , if we want to push earlier than that we 've got to start using physics which we can not test directly on earth . |
| 15 | We reach densities approaching that of the atomic nucleus , so it 's about one hundredth of a second after the start that there is a real threshold . |
| 16 | Holwell got a second after the interval with the Exmouth captain , Rosie Goodridge , pulling one back in the last minute . |
| 17 | By giving the Secretary of State the power this side of the general election , perhaps he intends to implement such a council after the election . |
| 18 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 19 | One adverse critic of Dustin 's performance was the young and eccentric English actor Victor Henry , who , on seeing Dustin in a bar after the show , emptied a glass of beer over his head . |
| 20 | Some land involved was not bought until a year and a half after the find . |
| 21 | The awards , to fifteen civilians , five firemen , and three policemen were presented today , more than a year and a half after the crash on the M-Four near Swindon . |
| 22 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 23 | Corby ( Northants ) , for example , received a zone after the closure of the British Steel plant , and an associated rise to over 25 per cent in male unemployment . |
| 24 | It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock . |
| 25 | MORE THAN 2,000 women have telephoned a helpline after the death of a midwife with the HIV virus . |
| 26 | We had a chat after the Head of House appointment about the Head of House role . |
| 27 | Thankful that because of Rosie 's appendix she knew the quickest way to the hospital well , Shelley drove like a demon after the ambulance , and ran in as the casualty was stretchered in . |
| 28 | Applicants should indicate , where appropriate , their preference of location in a bracket after the title of the course , for example : |
| 29 | Despite a fall after the loss of Gascony , exports again increased by the 1470s . |
| 30 | There was a campaign after the war to bring back Tottenham puddings they had somebody in Harlow who was |