Example sentences of "[noun sg] after it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also said that if the bow should move of its own accord after it had been draped it was a bad omen . |
| 2 | Earlier this year , Frankë 's manager Jake Fior went to see Virgin about revitalising the cut after it had been sampled by Sweden 's Swemix crew under the Sound Factory banner and released to some success under its original title . |
| 3 | It is normal practice to use a drogue or parachute to keep the cable under tension after it has been released from the glider . |
| 4 | The function of the check , as I have already mentioned , is to catch the hammer after it has hit the string . |
| 5 | The decision in Bell was held to be of doubtful validity in Maitland Ptr. , 1961 S.L.T. 384 , where a licensing court was directed to hold a special sitting after it had , per incuriam , failed to declare a provisional grant final . |
| 6 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 7 | Such clauses only take effect after it has been found that there has been a breach of contract . |
| 8 | SYLVESTER Stallone took a £1.2 million pay cut to save his latest movie after it went £15 million over budget . |
| 9 | ( First Edition ) AMBULANCE union leaders are to consider stepping up industrial action after it became clear yesterday that management had made no concessions in talks with Acas , the conciliation service , writes Barrie Clement . |
| 10 | The chair of the NEC said that it was forced to take action after it uncovered widespread irregularities and blatant corruption on the part of both recognized political parties — the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) and the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) . |
| 11 | So let her empty her bladder after it 's been sitting there overnight , and then a nice fresh sample . |
| 12 | Data General Corp will be getting 88000-based desktop workstations OEM from Omron Corporation starting sometime this spring after it signs a contract . |
| 13 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 14 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 15 | Catherine Moore , 19 , was trapped in a Ford Cortina car after it crashed into parked vehicles in east Middlesbrough on Sunday afternoon . |
| 16 | A man was released from his car after it crashed in Longford Road , Middlesbrough , shortly before 8pm last night . |
| 17 | One patient was treated with a drug not normally used for the condition after it had successfully been tested on her blood . |
| 18 | Prospects were bleak a year ago at Thornaby Impasse after it failed to secure funding . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 20 | But they were cut from the programme after it overran by 10 minutes . |
| 21 | Discard the bad peel after it has dried , then repolish and etch the face . |
| 22 | the printing term for long metal trays used to hold type after it had been set and before the press run . |
| 23 | It may be that those responsible for the well-known picture of the so-called ‘ Dancing Sorcerer ’ ( on the wall of one of the innermost recesses of the Trois Frères cave in the department of Arriège in France ) , which represents a man in the skin of an animal and wearing the antlers of a stag , may have felt that the actual performance of the dance was insufficient , since they were concerned about the conservation of the magical efficacy of the dance after it had ended . |
| 24 | A disabled woman in Wigan has won £10,000 damages from the council after it failed to carry out necessary adaptations to her home . |
| 25 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 26 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 27 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 28 | The government-backed Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research is to investigate the issue after it carried out a review of 50 recent reports on the longevity of CDs . |
| 29 | Construction questions can not be used as material for challenge to the determination after it has been made unless the expert has addressed the " wrong question " : see Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 , discussed at 13.6.8 . |
| 30 | This finding conflicts with those of Bransford and Johnson ( 1972 ) and Dooling and Mullett ( 1973 ) who found that providing information about the theme or context of a passage after it had been presented did not improve performance , and so concluded that such information only affected the organisation carried out when the passage was memorised . |