Example sentences of "[noun pl] after " 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 | Further improvements in graphics handling include the ability to manipulate both TIFF and paint images after they have been placed in a publication . |
| 3 | Boat rescue : RAF helicopter rescued two survivors after a boat capsized in Bristol Channel off Llantwit Major , South Glamorgan . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | With loads more baddies after you , this proves essential . |
| 6 | They patrol land and keep tabs on the gangs after tip offs from gamekeepers and farmers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A good reputation will be merely a means to winning what I want from others ; I shall care nothing for the respect or contempt of people who can not help or ham me , and find no pleasure in the prospect of millions seeing my face on television or reading my books after I am dead . |
| 9 | He had been friends while they talked in the spinney , and while they made the dam on the stream and read their paperbacked books after they 'd eaten their sandwiches . |
| 10 | We auc we auctioned the books after as you know and erm so I I 'll have to make a new list of what 's left and let you have it . |
| 11 | A music teacher who turned his hand to writing books after he suffered a stroke yesterday presented the Mayor of Darlington with some of his works . |
| 12 | Or that Jesus 's divinity had been decided by vote at the Council of Nicaea , some three centuries after Jesus himself had lived . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This incident concerning the saint is also an example of early Christianity 's adaptation of the old pagan beliefs , with politic foresight , for its own purpose ; and , as already shown , traces of the sacred horse-cult remained in Christian ceremony for centuries after this event recorded by Gibbon . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | HUNDREDS of children missed out on trips after a coach firm boycotted 15 Liverpool schools . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's the nagging curse which afflicts all consumers — lingering doubts after you get it home , like ‘ should I have opted for Brand X instead of Brand Y ’ . |
| 20 | On 14 August 1903 , the school teachers asked to keep their travelling privileges after the schools were to be handed over to the Local Education Authority . |
| 21 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 22 | It is very important that you do n't become pregnant for at least three months after you have had the vaccination . |
| 23 | Yet some twelve months after I had graduated , I was now having my first interview with my chief constable who had no idea what I had studied or what result I had achieved . |
| 24 | Initially , in November , which is three months after Stavrogin was quoting Hamlet , Kirillov 's ‘ ROLE IS A FACTUAL ONE ’ — by which Dostoevsky means he ‘ volunteered to shoot himself for the common cause ’ and leave a letter claiming responsibility for Shatov 's murder , thus diverting the attention of the police from Peter Verkhovensky and the quintet . |
| 25 | Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State , researchers have not been idle . |
| 26 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 27 | I kept my job for three months after I was married . |
| 28 | On 2 February ACAS published a draft report and finally in March 1977 , six months after they first came on the scene , they published the full report on Grunwick recommending recognition of APEX . |
| 29 | Some months after I spoke to Feroza I learnt that she had had to return to Pakistan . |
| 30 | Mr Michael Knowles , aged 47 , Conservative MP for Nottingham East , was at South Western magistrates court in London yesterday fined £200 and banned for 12 months after he admitted a drink driving offence . |