Example sentences of "[noun pl] after it [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 2 | In Briggs [ 1987 ] Crim LR 708 the accused was seen riding a motorbike two days after it had been taken without lawful authority . |
| 3 | Further , from the time of an announcement of an auction until 28 days after it has been held , the Bank observes a fallow period during which it does not sell stock of a similar type to that being auctioned so as not to be seen to be depressing the price . |
| 4 | Do n't accept a wood treatment guarantee as proof that infestation has been eliminated ; reinfestation has been found rife in a roof space only five years after it had been treated . |
| 5 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 6 | The actual exercise of this option may not be made earlier than three years nor later than ten years after it has been obtained . |
| 7 | Martial law had remained in effect on the islands after it had been lifted throughout the rest of Taiwan in mid-1987 [ see pp. 35378-79 ] . |
| 8 | At the very least , the employee may need to show that the customer began to make an active search for an alternative supplier when be became aware that the patented article had to undergo important technical refinements after it had been put into use . |
| 9 | The cuckoo is able to produce an egg at such short notice because she has retained it in her body for up to twenty-four hours after it has been encased in shell and is ready for laying . |
| 10 | She added : ‘ Some of this graffiti appeared within 30 minutes after it had been cleaned . ’ |