Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] after it " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEN passengers escaped injury when their train was derailed after it collided with a herd of cattle straying on a line in Co Durham , last night . |
| 2 | One unnamed area was criticised after it appeared to have industrial dereliction and sad , downcast people . |
| 3 | The radios and transmitter of one firm were seized after it was discovered its cars were operating without a Department of Transport licence , and officers uncovered a total of 56 traffic offences . |
| 4 | The political ramifications of the case were highlighted after it emerged that two of the four co-operatives implicated were owned by members of Sharif 's ruling IDA and that substantial loans had been extended to a number of IDA politicians , including Sharif himself . |
| 5 | Plans to introduce an interim budget were abandoned after it became clear that the budget deficit would be larger than anticipated . |
| 6 | THE pilot of a vintage fighter plane was killed after it ploughed into moorland yesterday afternoon . |
| 7 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |