Example sentences of "after [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horn regrowth after disbudding is far more common in the male goat |
| 2 | after horseracing 's big festival we 've got Greyhounds gala event this Saturday … six dogs will be racing in the pall mall final at Oxford 's Cowley Stadium … five thousand pounds to the winner … its a good night … |
| 3 | Surveys of parking habits by the deparment 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory carried out before and after wheelclamping was extended to the areas of St John 's Wood and Pimlico in London in spring 1987 , show that parking on yellow lines declined by 31 and 17 per cent respectively . |
| 4 | The changes in parking behaviour in St John 's Wood are similar to those observed in the period after wheelclamping was introduced in central London in 1982 . |
| 5 | The considerably lower activity found in malignant ascites may explain why coagulopathy after shunting is less pronounced in this group of patients . |
| 6 | Lastly , one other strange bit of feedback we had after attending was that our presence was seen to indicate our ‘ seriousness ’ as a production company — some sort of trial by ordeal . |
| 7 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 8 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 9 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 10 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 11 | After having been broken by torture , the poor Nepomuk was bound and thrown into the Vltava from Charles Bridge . |
| 12 | Clothing and footwear volumes were particularly hard hit last month , after having been boosted by heavy price discounting earlier in the year . |
| 13 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 14 | Following them was Kim Philby , who escaped to Moscow just ahead of MI5 in 1962 , and Anthony Blunt , who finally confessed in 1964 to being a long-time and important Russian spy only after having been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 15 | One of the earliest was Oleg Penkovsky , a lieutenant-colonel in the GRU , who approached MI6 in 1960 with offers of information after having been twice rebuffed by the CIA . |
| 16 | To the right of the altar is the ancient well-head into which , according to tradition , San Calimero was thrown by pagan priests after having been stoned . |
| 17 | He arrived with Archbishop Wallenstein , after having been trained in Rome and worked on the palace in 1676 . |
| 18 | At Fylingdales , to ‘ remain in ’ the area of the air base ‘ after having been directed to leave ’ by an official was designated a breach of by-law 3(k) . |
| 19 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 20 | A number of small mammal carcases , including shrews , microtines and mice , were exposed in sheltered conditions in Wales after having been trapped and killed . |
| 21 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 22 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 23 | Deep mining has ended in Ayrshire , after having been an important part of the economy of the county for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | The epitome of Nineties value rather than volume has become just that , after having been not terribly good at being the Eighties thrusting stereotype — though not for want of trying . |
| 25 | ‘ After having been a teacher in my past , my best answer is this : kids always seem to want to learn stuff that 's way to hard for them at the time . |
| 26 | But in South Africa , after having been in the lead for forty-three laps , he had to retire with a seized gear-box . |
| 27 | Autopsies carried out by forensic experts reportedly concluded that some victims had been killed by a bullet in the head after having been wounded . |
| 28 | The lure of the stripe , even after having been put through every possible variation and contortion , remains irresistible for many artists . |
| 29 | It appears that the tea was intercepted after having been successfully landed , but during the ensuing enquiry it transpired that the bailie had also imported a considerable quantity of Swedish iron in excess of what had been found suitable by the Wigtown customs officers . |
| 30 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |