Example sentences of "after [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The romantic charm of so much Sussex folklore has concealed the basic violence of smuggling , its support through many levels of society , and the fact that it was possibly the largest single local industry after agriculture until the repeal of protective tariffs in the 1840s killed the need for it almost immediately . |
| 2 | Years of operating on a shoestring , as the fourth of Deng 's ‘ four modernisations ’ after agriculture , industry and science , have left the PLA ill-equipped for modern warfare . |
| 3 | It was followed by flash after flash , sheets or blue light which stabbed flat at the camp . |
| 4 | He left her a note and , after hesitation , a small parcel which contained the most personal , the most valuable object he possessed . |
| 5 | After electrification in 1966 , the Bletchley train continued to pick up at Loughton , but not to set down at night . |
| 6 | After rooftop scuffles yesterday , they forced a halt to the demolition work . |
| 7 | Some of the older women might stop for an aperitivo after window-shopping in Via Cavour , which led into the Piazza . |
| 8 | This graph compares the proportion of brightly-coloured prey in a population before predation ( horizontal axis ) with the proportion after predation ( vertical axis . |
| 9 | There was sack after sack of mail from Bristol and Bath . |
| 10 | Asked to list the most important qualities to be considered in purchasing a new car , respondents placed fuel economy fourth on the list ( after reliability , all round vision , and accident avoidance ) , and air pollution control sixth . |
| 11 | Reserve team versus Coventry last Wednesday postponed — Tinkler and Weatherall comebacks after injury/illness delayed as a result . |
| 12 | Diarrhoea occurs coincident with emergence about a week after primary infection and up to one year after reinfection . |
| 13 | So far as the availability of judicial review ( remedies ) is concerned , the distinction was used in cases decided after Ridge to provide a basis for denying , for example , that disciplinary decisions of prison governors ( as opposed to boards of prison visitors ) were subject to judicial review . |
| 14 | She twisted and gazed back to where the Black Cuillins arced away in ridge after ridge of jagged stone , rearing up into a flawless sky . |
| 15 | After inspection of the vulva and the skin surrounding the external genitalia , the doctor will pass a speculum into the vagina . |
| 16 | The course at Sandown was passed fit after inspection and unless there is heavy rain the card should take place . |
| 17 | However , E. F. Mott , Director of Education in Liverpool ( whose children were so resented in North Wales ) , found the proportion of verminous children in three Liverpool schools in poor areas to be 18% , 18% ( after inspection ) and 30% ( an estimate ) . |
| 18 | He looked inside the cover and noticed how Sir Ralph had scrawled prayer after prayer to St Julian . |
| 19 | Will we start after prayer when we did ? |
| 20 | But as a model prisoner he was back on the streets within three years after remission for good behaviour . |
| 21 | Eight patients have required emergency surgery coinciding with the unrestricted reintroduction of food after remission induced by diet . |
| 22 | This was Hardy 's conception also , as we see from poem after poem and story after story . |
| 23 | In story after story people ( or aliens ) have simply switched on the antigravity drive in order to be able to travel cheaply and effortlessly between the stars . |
| 24 | Liverpool 's defeat will not offer Graeme Souness , recovering in a Cheshire hospital after heart surgery , the best possible footballing start to his recuperation . |
| 25 | Soccer : Souness suffers relapse after heart surgery |
| 26 | More than 100,000 Britons a year die from these cancers , the biggest killer after heart disease . |
| 27 | Both were still critical after heart operations . ’ |
| 28 | von Scheidt et al assessed haemodynamic variables over a 5 year period ( mean 26 months ) in patients after heart transplantation and confirmed preserved and normal left ventricular contractility in most cases . |
| 29 | You from the insurance industry , twenty five years after heart attacks , when he should have died , despite the modern medicine . |
| 30 | Around 1,000 people a year die of heart disease in Wirral , and 1,2000 are admitted to local hospitals after heart attacks . |