Example sentences of "[noun] after [art] " in BNC.

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1 US White House chief of staff John Sununu reiterated on Jan. 13 the US insistence that there could be no linkage with the Palestinian issue but that " certainly there are opportunities after the Gulf crisis is resolved when such a conference takes place " .
2 Boat rescue : RAF helicopter rescued two survivors after a boat capsized in Bristol Channel off Llantwit Major , South Glamorgan .
3 You can continue a ritual after the faith is dead — that is not a conscious , ‘ pretty ’ piece of archaeology — but you can not revive it . ’
4 The Exxon corporation admitted on Jan. 3 that 500,000 gallons of heating oil had been spilled into New York harbour after a pipeline was hit by an Exxon-owned vessel on Jan. 1 .
5 The several hundred Ma delay in the basin impacts after the main phase of accretion can also be explained , because it can be shown that the more massive a body the longer it is likely to survive before being collected by the Moon ( or by the Earth ) .
6 Contrary to current guidelines for asthma management , ‘ step up ’ in maintenance therapy after an attack was often not practised .
7 Adding the gravel after the water can result in a little clouding , but if you have washed it well this soon clears , while the water is heating up .
8 At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game .
9 Once , when native Hawaiians were out for blood after a visiting Australian had abused a local , he brought the two sides together and persuaded them to settle peacefully .
10 • Ropeable Lotus dealers in the US were after Lotus boss Michael Kimberley 's blood after the Lotus-badged Bertone Emotion made its debut at the Detroit show earlier this year .
11 DIPLOMACY was plunged into darkness and officials were stranded in lifts after a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew all the fuses in a government conference centre in northern Tanzania .
12 At the end of a gloomy , recession-blighted year , booksellers at last had cause for optimism after a last-minute rush by Christmas shoppers boosted sales .
13 The piston was connected to the train by a vertical plate and a leather flap on top of the tube maintained the seal after the train had passed .
14 Uncertainty after the ruling was also reported to be raising doubts about the government 's plans for privatization of public-sector industry .
15 The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry .
16 A woman and seven children left a house in nearby Gudmunsen Avenue after a fire was discovered in a bedroom at around 7.30am on Saturday .
17 Even the work of scribes writing centuries after the Conquest has been dismissed in this way , seemingly mainly because it is variable , and not because we can ( usually ) know whether the scribe was a first-language speaker of Anglo-Norman , or whether it would have been relevant if he had been .
18 Disease free mucosa from cancer patients was not studied in the present investigation because of the technical difficulty of taking a second biopsy after the tumour had been removed .
19 ‘ George Bush to be the first US President to visit a free Cuba ’ headlines the far-right Miami Diario de las Americas , carrying , on its inside page , details of how to phone Cuba and send over food parcels , as well as where to register your confiscated property for repossession after the regime has gone .
20 Parliament was required to choose between the two leading candidates after no single candidate had won an absolute majority of the popular vote in the presidential elections in September [ see pp. 39110-11 ] .
21 Arrangements were also made for two firemen to take it in turns to sleep on the premises and instructions were given to these men to go all round the shops after the Works are closed and ‘ inspect every hole and corner to see if there is any sign of fire and afterwards to sleep on the premises so as to be ready in case of accident ’ .
22 Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished .
23 The long-lasting value of cavalry as a ‘ follow-up ’ force after a battle was shown on several occasions : at Verneuil in 1424 and , half a century later , in the battles involving the French , the Swiss and Charles the Bold , duke of Burgundy .
24 The Regulation enters into force after the European Parliament has debated it , which should be no later than 31 March 1993 , but the Directive is delayed until October in response to a request by the Netherlands , which says that is not ready yet with its internal laws .
25 Tough new United Nations sanctions against Serbia went into force after the Bosnian-Serb leadership rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan .
26 HUNDREDS of children missed out on trips after a coach firm boycotted 15 Liverpool schools .
27 The talks came to grief after the separatists insisted that the government , or perhaps the ruling Socialist party , should publicly acknowledge that its representatives had agreed to negotiate with ETA on the Basque country 's political future .
28 There is a particular form of satisfaction for many in seeing the dirt on the cotton wool after the skin has been cleaned , as a demonstration that their care has been effective .
29 Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd 's $1,100m of long-term debt has come under scrutiny from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which says it may cut its triple-A ratings after the company changed its financing policy : Moody 's examination will focus on whether the change will significantly reduce the company 's debt protection measurements over time .
30 Above : The remains of LF363 at Wittering after the crash crews had succeeded in a very quick knock-down of the blaze .
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