Example sentences of "be [vb pp] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were three possible air-launched solutions : the US Air Force 's Skybolt , which could be modified to fit the V-bombers ; a simpler British ‘ ram jet ’ , called Pandora , suitable for the TSR 2 , whose development was at such an early stage that costs could only be guessed ; and further development of the existing Blue Steel stand-off bomb on which work had been stopped after the Sandys Defence Review . |
| 2 | Dodemaide , the Sheffield Shield player of the year , has been recalled after a three-year absence , along with Matthews , who has not played internationally since last year 's tour of the West Indies . |
| 3 | Further notes on some of the questions are given after the list . |
| 4 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
| 5 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 6 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 7 | During the spring and summer of 1939 , Hitler intimidated Poland over his claim for the right to have back a corridor — which Poland had been given after the Greet War to give Poland an access to the Baltic Sea , including the port of Danzig . |
| 8 | The positive test is said to have been given after the Lievin race on 13 February which saw Narozhilenko , the world 100m hurdles champion in Tokyo in 1991 , begin an extraordinary record-breaking sequence at 60m hurdles . |
| 9 | Plans to develop Penang Hill , an isolated patch of forest on one of Malaysia 's most densely-populated islands , has been halted after a protest campaign . |
| 10 | It has been formed after a year-long management and brand analysis of Seagram 's global brands . |
| 11 | NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Hence , the backlash to which so many poor devils have been exposed after a premature elevation to megastardom . |
| 13 | A separate section describing famous Orc and Goblin warlords has been included after the army list . |
| 14 | A separate section describing famous warriors from the Empire has been included after the army list . |
| 15 | On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community . |
| 16 | Japan announced on Nov. 2 that it would reactivate a development loan programme for China which had been frozen after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 17 | In November 1990 Japan had reactivated a development loan programme to China which had been frozen after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 18 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 19 | The charge alleges that although he knew Mr Buckley , of Prince Regent Street , Leith , had been trapped after the blast , Sutherland pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one in the house . |
| 20 | The goods are owned after the last instalment . |
| 21 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 22 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 23 | Two police officers have been injured after a gang of twenty youths ambushed their patrol car . |
| 24 | The village is thought to have been named after a Roman officer , Amboniacus , at the time when the Emperor Probus ordered the replanting of vineyards throughout Gaul . |
| 25 | one with hinged leaves or flaps which can be folded ; said to have been named after an eighteenth-century Earl of Pembroke . |
| 26 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 27 | Dwight Kronweiser had been born in nineteen forty-five , and had been named after the victorious Allied Commander in Europe , whom his parents , even then , foresaw as a future President of the United States , a new Ulysses S. Grant . |
| 28 | A generation earlier Naevius had been silenced after a conflict with the aristocratic Metelli . |
| 29 | The position will worsen once the full effects of the poll tax and the revenue support grant are felt after the expiry of the four-year transitional period . |
| 30 | A PRIVATE medical centre in the grounds of Darlington 's Memorial Hospital has been scuppered after a Government inquiry . |