Example sentences of "were [verb] after [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were developed after the merger of Siemens and Nixdorf when Siemens acquired Targon . |
| 2 | There 's been no outside aid for civilians in Central Bosnia since October the 25th when convoys were halted after the killing of a Danish truck driver … |
| 3 | Proceedings were halted after the forum 's interim executive committee chaired by Seraphin Rwamba failed to agree with the President on the live radio coverage of deliberations , which Compaore opposed . |
| 4 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 5 | In 1913 , the first ‘ buses appeared in the district , operated by the London General Omnibus Company Limited , but these were withdrawn after the outbreak of hostilities on 22 November , 1914 . |
| 6 | Problems of supply and distribution of food and emergency supplies were compounded after the fall of the port of Massawa to separatist Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) forces in February [ see pp. 37239-40 ] . |
| 7 | Fears that Steffi Graf 's foot injury was worse than first thought , were allayed after the defending women 's champion put in six hours of practice at Wimbledon on Saturday then practised for two hours yesterday at a club in west London . |
| 8 | Our analysis includes the geographical area covered by Gardner et al but follows it too closely in time to provide data to test their findings ; only cases 12–14 in table III ( one non-Hodgkin lymphoma , one leukaemia , one Hodgkin 's disease ) were diagnosed after the period covered by the Gardner study and moreover all three were conceived before the parents moved to Seascale . |
| 9 | They all worked at the BUPA South Bank Hospital in Worcester , and were returning after a day 's training at a hospital in Cardiff when the crash happened . |
| 10 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |
| 11 | Assad had urged recognition that " the only beneficiary of the present crisis is Israel " , promising that Syrian forces would fight alongside Iraqis if they were attacked after a withdrawal from Kuwait , and arguing that only such a withdrawal would avoid giving the " enemies of our Arab nation … the golden opportunity which they were dreaming of one day having , and which today is present " . |
| 12 | Yesterday 's poor figures to 30 June were expected after the fire alarm and data storage group warned two weeks ago that it was unlikely to beat last year 's £10m . |
| 13 | In Birmingham on Sept. 2 , shops in the Handsworth area were looted after a power cut , and some 200 riot police were sent to the area . |
| 14 | More serious charges originally brought against Poindexter were dropped after the Reagan and Bush administrations refused to release confidential documents requested by the prosecution . |
| 15 | Reporting restrictions were lifted after an appeal by Ashworth 's solicitor , Colette Crowley , for witnesses to come forward . |
| 16 | Natural antagonisms and rivalries between their maritime communities were accentuated after the Plantagenet loss of Normandy ( 1204 ) , the reduction of the Seine valley to Capetian obedience ( thereby providing Paris with a direct outlet to the sea ) and the dispossession of Henry III at La Rochelle ( 1224 ) . |
| 17 | Their style seems Scandinavian , and although some were rebuilt after a fire , this type of building has remained in use here since the sixteenth century for storing nets and other equipment . |
| 18 | FAMILIES were evacuated after a gas blast ripped through a block of flats yesterday . |
| 19 | The hunt saboteurs say they were threatened after the incident . |
| 20 | At least 24 people died and 300 were injured after a series of tornadoes and storms ripped across Texas , Louisiana , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , Tennessee and Kentucky on Nov. 21-22 . |
| 21 | Three people died and fourteen were injured after an explosion at a chemical works in West Yorkshire . |
| 22 | On Aug. 28 two of the group were injured after an attack in Mogadishu in which three local guards were apparently killed . |
| 23 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 24 | Rosa and Dolores were looking after the child in Palma and I knew they were due to return . |
| 25 | The Taylor sisters who were convicted of murdering Alison were freed after the appeal court described coverage of their case as sensationalized and inaccurate . |
| 26 | These were built after the earthquake of 1305 . |
| 27 | Gall bladder bile samples were collected after the ligation of the cystic duct by the complete sterile needle aspiration f the gall bladder to prevent the stratification f bile . |
| 28 | ‘ I know the players were gutted after the game . |
| 29 | Initial bans were imposed after the Braer ran aground off Shetland in January and spilt its cargo of light crude oil [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 30 | In this case , ten β-galactosidase negative plaques were selected after the ligation of the PCR-fragments ( 6 ) into M13mp18 and transformation into E.coli TG1 . |