Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 2 | Measurements were carried out after the intake of 19.8 g psyllium or placebo in a randomised , crossover , double blind trial . |
| 3 | So , for example , many of the nurseries opened during the Second World War were closed down after the war . |
| 4 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 5 | The holdings and rights of freeholders and tenants to common land were bought out after the survey and valuation of often hundreds of parcels of land and rearrangement of drainage , hedges , and roads ( Rackham 1985 ) , which increased demand for labour . |
| 6 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 7 | However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs . |
| 8 | Police were called in after the fourteen month old grey colt was found dead on a farm on road in Lincoln . |
| 9 | The Mossad squads were set up after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic games in September , 1972 . |
| 10 | The monuments in Moscow to the revolutionary leaders which were taken down after the attempted coup last August have not been placed in the Museum of Totalitarian Art , as was stated . |
| 11 | 9/Face completed ; washes of paint from the crayon were put on after the eyebrows and eyelashes were drawn in . |
| 12 | Thirty of farmer Alan Gerrard 's brutes were put down after the weekend attack on Beverley Hurst , nine . |
| 13 | So potent is the tradition of Czech cafe society , that most cafes were shut down after the Communist takeover in 1948 . |
| 14 | Final proposals were sent out after the refinance steering committee , led by Barclays , agreed the documentation in a process which was originally started last March . |