Example sentences of "the [adj] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | The machine , which had been built in the late nineteen sixties , had been delivered to Mrs Handy 's home on May the fourteenth after she had bought it through a relative . |
| 2 | In the case of the Brixton gang , the prolific use of photographs of the accused after conviction seems to be to emphasise that these were black youths . |
| 3 | The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence . |
| 4 | He reformed the Pacemakers in the seventies after a resurgence of interest in his music … he 's been on the road ever since . |
| 5 | Distillery boss Billy Hamilton fears the worst after Heath was assisted off in the second-half with a torn calf muscle . |
| 6 | The freshmen , on Middlesex , were named after Foinavon , the 100-1 outsider that came through to win the National after most of the runners had fallen . |
| 7 | Records look set to crash in the National after Double Silk beat the clock on his majestic winning march over the Aintree fences . |
| 8 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 9 | The Conwy pairing of Gary Macara and Roy Williams won the last two holes to level the match and then won at the 19th after Flint had put their tee shot out of bounds . |
| 10 | Oh maybe could go to the advisory after I think they 're open till five . |
| 11 | A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 . |
| 12 | WH Smith took out an injunction against the five after it discovered what it says was a plot to launch a music chain to rival Our Price . |
| 13 | This question and the five after it are a test on the previous two copies of the Journal . |
| 14 | They used to take the what they called the rakings , the spare after they carried the sheaves in . |
| 15 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 16 | I look forward to hearing from you with your agreement to the above after you have discussed the matter with your colleagues . |
| 17 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course Mam said he never was the same after he married Viola . |
| 19 | The top of the leader board remained the same after round two . |
| 20 | Now they are urging Widnes people to do the same after North West Water said the town was the best of 50 possible sites for a sludge incinerator . |
| 21 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |
| 22 | It looks like the Ireland of the 1850s after the great potato famines : there is no one about . |
| 23 | Meaby 's crucial thrust came in the decisive bottom match at the 13th after he and Davies had lost the 11th and 12th and fallen back to all-square . |
| 24 | The profile of the sphincter after operation did not differ significantly from the profile before operation in either group of patients . |
| 25 | The estimated 70,000 Rwandan refugees in Uganda , many of whom as members of the Tutsi ethnic minority had left Rwanda in the 1960s after extensive communal violence [ see pp. 20085-86 ] , were the subject of bilateral talks in November 1989 . |
| 26 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 28 | How extraordinary that people her own age should believe such grotesque , non-scientific ideas as that a man could be resurrected from the dead after , and a horrible thought it was , after being crucified ; and how fantastic that they should believe that all the dead would rise from their graves — all of them , those countless millions , millions upon millions , rising from the clay into which they had , long since , dissolved … . |
| 29 | Between 1950 and the mid 1970s in the Bolivian Andes , the production of cold and temperate-climate crops , grown by the peasantry , expanded at an average annual rate of 4.4 per cent , particularly high levels being recorded in the 1950s after agrarian reform ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 30 | In no sense whatever was Korean communism a monolithic movement ; it was riddled with internal divisions and did not become relatively unified until Kim Il Sung purged his opponents in the 1950s after the Korean War . |