Example sentences of "after [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A savage new twist to the personal computer price-performance ratchet is in prospect after Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced yesterday that it will plunge straight into the 80486 market with a family of devices using Intel Corp microcode rather than wait until its own ‘ clean ’ version of the chip is ready in June . |
2 | A savage new twist to the personal computer price-performance ratchet is in prospect after Advanced Micro Devices Inc announced yesterday that it will plunge straight into the 80486 market with a family of devices using Intel Corp microcode rather than wait until its own ‘ clean ’ version of the chip is ready in June . |
3 | The health secretary , Kenneth Clarke , said he would examine a proposal to pay people to look after frail elderly relatives instead of putting them in homes . |
4 | Concentrations of 5-ASA and Ac-5-ASA in human ileocolonic biopsy homogenates after oral 5-ASA preparations |
5 | That 83-mile southern stretch was Europe 's third busiest trunk railway after French high-speed services and Germany 's Rhine Valley lines . |
6 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
7 | Another study reported by the Equal Opportunities Commission ( address on page 146 ) in their book Carers and Services , which compares the situation of men and women looking after dependent elderly relations , shows that 59 per cent of all carers are women . |
8 | Whereas Moscow tried to pose as the champion of German unity therefore , the West posed as the defender of German liberty , arguing that reunification must only come after free nation-wide elections , and that Germany should be able to choose its own Allies . |
9 | This is the first reported attempt to evaluate the mucosal availability of 5-ASA after different oral preparations . |
10 | For example , stem cells are particularly sensitive to irradiation and most are killed after high sublethal doses . |
11 | The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago . |
12 | The Greek police , with the full co-operation of the Archaeological Service , have launched a major international hunt for the thieves and the objects , but it is feared that some of the objects , particularly the much sought after Early Cycladic figurines , will be smuggled abroad and sold to collectors . |
13 | Prime Minister Mazowiecki had wanted the elections to be held after democratic parliamentary elections and the adoption of a new constitution , while Walesa supporters from Solidarity , Centre Alliance , demanded that Walesa be elected President by the National Assembly . |
14 | Most countries have systems of government that are relatively modern creations , either designed after cataclysmic political events which required the setting up of entirely new institutions , or set up to meet the needs of newly created or newly independent states . |
15 | Prices are now falling slightly after stringent budget-deficit cuts . |
16 | In 1095 ( after previous diplomatic exchanges at a less exalted level ) pope Urban received an embassy from the Emperor Alexius Comnenus , asking for help in recruiting mercenaries . |
17 | Less than three weeks after substantial Labour gains in the 1922 municipal election , Groves won Stratford from the Tories , while Thorne and Jones were re-elected on a platform of working-class advocacy . |
18 | Of the remaining 27 patients , eight had been referred with non-cardiac chest pain after negative cardiac investigations and 19 with suspected connective tissue involvement of the oesophagus . |
19 | The pre-tax figure fell from £7.5 million in 1991 to only £1 million after net exceptional losses on disposals of £5.8 million , the group revealed yesterday . |
20 | To investigate this ability of different recombinant GGFs to be secreted , we determined for the two human cDNA clones the distribution of total expressed GGF ( Schwann cell mitogenic ) activity between cell lysate and conditioned medium after transient mammalian transfections ( Table 2 ) . |
21 | This and the RDBI.BAT files should be purged after successful RDBI transfers . |
22 | After various other criteria , we come at last to the manner in which this knowledge and understanding must be expressed . |
23 | So that 's what we did , along with chasing after various red herrings which somebody provided to keep us busy . |
24 | The light was enough after misty moisty months of grey : spring would not be long . |
25 | Nationalist aspirations can be seen reflected in the renaming of the Dublin terminals after Irish revolutionary heroes ( Connolly , Pearse , Heuston ) . |
26 | He stressed the need for economies after accumulated serious losses over the last seven years . |
27 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly gave up the game this year after long-lasting viral problems , unexpectedly reclaimed the British national title at Newcastle yesterday by beating Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting only 43 minutes . |
28 | The bill in question , approved by disaffected hardliners in the ruling National Opposition Union ( UNO ) coalition , had rescinded Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) land and property laws , described locally as la piñata ( after cheap sweet dispensers ) which before the change in government in April 1990 had legitimized the distribution of property to Sandinistas [ see p. 38282 ] . |
29 | ( a ) After certain negative adverbs : Never have I seen such a storm ! |
30 | The districts collect the rubbish … take responsibility for housing … and look after certain environmental services . |