Example sentences of "so [adv] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though some of the writing and most if not all the compilation were done not so long after the notorious events surrounding the capture of Jerusalem in 587 or 586 , only in the little story of the bowl of lentil soup is Esau portrayed in a poor light . |
| 2 | It is difficult to see how the courts can scrupulously review the reasonableness of police discretion where the case comes up so long after the event when the wording in the Act is so very wide in the first place . |
| 3 | When she had sat down again she said : ‘ So how is it that you 're looking for Elsie now , so long after the event ? |
| 4 | Why so much effort so long after the event ? |
| 5 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 6 | What is remarkable is that Republican resistance continued for so long after the loss of the north in mid-1937 — a tribute to improved military organization and human courage . |
| 7 | Following not so long after the large retrospective devoted to the Russian Suprematist in Amsterdam in 1989 , the Fundación Juan March is holding a much smaller show ( forty-two pictures rather than 215 ) from 4 April . |
| 8 | Masud Hoghughi , director of Aycliffe children 's centre , said : ‘ It is most regrettable that so long after the Children Act this ambiguity continues . |
| 9 | He made some remark about being surprised to receive Blanche 's request so long after the murder and not being sure what she hoped to gain from viewing the tapes . |
| 10 | Though doing so shortly after the Gulf war and in a recession might have seemed risky , Airtours had its reasons . |
| 11 | The Wolves manager Graham Turner said the striker 's first full England game last week had tired him so soon after a three-match ban . |
| 12 | Even though it had detailed knowledge of the flight 's route so soon after the event , the US government dismissed its claim out of hand hours later , and never explained why . |
| 13 | There have been last-minute snags over the asking price of £1million , a record for a goalkeeper , and not every director favours the sale so soon after the departure of Penrice . |
| 14 | What could be far more critical is the devastating effect of another major reorganisation within the NHS so soon after the present Government 's introduction of the more business-like internal market . |
| 15 | Captain Kepler Wessels has complained of the indecent haste in agreeing to play the series in the West Indies so soon after the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 16 | But the resignations of Norman Fowler in December 1989 and Peter Walker in March 1990 ( albeit for family reasons ) coming so soon after the major re-adjustments necessitated by Nigel Lawson 's departure in October , both unsettled the Cabinet and had a demoralising effect on backbenchers . |
| 17 | It is probably unrealistic to suggest that , so soon after the reorganizing and restructuring of examinations at 16 + , we can envisage yet another new system . |
| 18 | She claimed that their action had been ill-considered and ironic coming so soon after the launch of their customer service charter . |
| 19 | So soon after the company restructure ? |
| 20 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 21 | He maintains that , ‘ So soon after the death of a relative in hospital the next of kin are in the early stages of severe grieving , and often do not understand what is being asked of them . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I really do n't know how you Italians do it , so soon after the war . |
| 23 | Not only that , but because the Davis Cup ties were scheduled so soon after the Australian Open , there was no time for Holland 's Richard Krajicek , or Germany 's Michael Stich to recover in time from injuries to take part . |
| 24 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 25 | Moreover , as I indicated earlier in my judgment , there were reasons why the justices might be particularly cautious in considering the proposal agreed between all the parties that there should now be the fundamental reversal of the future of these children , so soon after the making of the care order in 1991 . |
| 26 | Oldfield said it was entirely his fault , but coming so soon after the Woodfull affair , the crowd went berserk again . |
| 27 | In this country , delivery-ward routines vary from hospital to hospital but there 's no reason for separating mothers and their healthy babies so soon after the birth — measuring and weighing could easily be put off for an hour or two . |
| 28 | Luckily , his father 's former colleague at Esso Libya invited Coleman to stay with him , for there had seemed a pretty obvious danger in starting a cold canvas of opinion so soon after the raid . |
| 29 | ‘ There is no intrinsic reason for another reorganisation so soon after the last , and there is certainly no popular demand for it . |
| 30 | Brizan claimed that the budget , coming so soon after the general election , could only be a " holding operation " until the NDC administration was able to undertake reforms , and he announced the creation of a committee to review the fiscal policies of the previous Blaize administration . |