Example sentences of "after [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been virtually no further expansion after the fifty years of extraordinary growth in the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | During the night after The Best Years of Our Lives scooped the Oscars , she came downstairs to find him sitting alone , with an award in each hand , sobbing . |
| 3 | This is not to suggest that all the anti-Hanoverian crowds were encouraged from above ; as Nicholas Rogers has shown , patrician involvement seems to have become less common after the early stages of unrest , and increasingly the riots in most areas appear to have been led from below by more lowly types . |
| 4 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 5 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 6 | After the early years of the Reformation , a settlement between the Lutherans and Catholics had been arrived at in Augsburg in 1555 . |
| 7 | Drop-out levels at this level improved after the early years of the 1980s but repetition rates have increased from about 6 per cent in 1975 to almost 11 per cent in 1985 and 1988 . |
| 8 | It is clear that the Authority adjusted its approach to INSET quite considerably after the early days of PNP and in the light of our sixth report and feedback from schools . |
| 9 | A BRITISH tourist was repeatedly raped on a South African beach , just one week after the savage murders of Elizabeth Over and Julie Godwin . |
| 10 | ‘ After the dark days of 70 's and 80's , I think we have turned the corner and have shown what can be done when , even in a remote community like ours , people get together and work for their mutual benefit . ’ |
| 11 | After the crushing disappointments of early 1986 , Norman was desperate to prove his critics wrong , and the British Open at Turnberry was the only place to do that . |
| 12 | While one third of the people lived near or below a stringently drawn poverty line , there had been nevertheless tangible improvements in the living conditions of the bulk of the people after the squalid upheavals of the earlier phase of industrialisation and urbanisation . |
| 13 | If we are to look after the legitimate interests of the preserved railways , one or two changes need to be made to the Bill . |
| 14 | AFTER THE FIVE months on gruelling location and the inconveniences of the long make-up sessions , Dustin took a rest with his family in New York . |
| 15 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 16 | After the political disturbances of 1848 , Karl Marx , with other radicals , spent time in an internment camp on the island . |
| 17 | After the mid-term elections of Nov. 6 , 1990 , the Democrats held 267 seats in the House of Representatives and 56 seats in the Senate [ see pp. 37846-47 ] . |
| 18 | Ivory reached the west partly from Egypt but also , after the Arab conquerors of North Africa had opened up the trans-Saharan route from Tunisia by way of Chad to the Niger , directly from equatorial Africa . |
| 19 | The same considerations of ideological convergence in broad terms and participation in public controversy encouraged the development of antislavery argument after the Napoleonic Wars in directions only lightly indicated in the early stages of the anti-slave trade argument . |
| 20 | Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures … |
| 21 | ‘ Know anything about a chap called Desmond Seymour-Strachey ? ’ he asked casually , after the usual preliminaries of cursing the weather , the students , and the teacher 's lot . |
| 22 | His remarks came after the sectarian murders of four Catholics in the past nine days . |
| 23 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 24 | Retired John Ownsworth , 55 , of Penistone , South Yorks , yesterday needed plastic surgery to save his thumb after the four fingers on his left hand were severed in the explosion . |
| 25 | After the four years of murderous deadlock on the Western Front — most of Canto 16 is concerned with that — ‘ Here we go again ’ or ‘ plus ça change ’ expressed a sentiment that was intolerable . |
| 26 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 27 | They go crawling after the great ones among us when they 're dead . |
| 28 | On the whole the entrepreneurs of migration were uncontrolled , except for some supervision of shipping conditions after the terrifying epidemics of the late 1840s . |
| 29 | After the strange events of The Haunting Horror , the adventurers could find some books in room 11 which refer to the Great Enchanter , and possibly some letters implying that Ludovicus Hanike was involved with Drachenfels in some way . |
| 30 | Or was she behaving again like she had after the strange happenings on Monument Hill ? |