Example sentences of "after [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time after the battle of Nechtansmere the Picts had remained the more powerful of the two . |
| 2 | After the disappearance of Aenarion the lands of Ulthuan were thrown into confusion . |
| 3 | In Normandy , the army under the command of the Earl of Warwick sacked Carentan and carried off huge quantities of plunder , while Froissart observed that after the sack of Caen the English ‘ won an amazing quantity of wealth for themselves ’ , and ‘ sent boats and barges laden with their gains — clothes , jewellery , gold and silver plate and many other valuable things — down the river to Ouistreham where their main fleet lay ’ . |
| 4 | Soon after the change of government the heads of national radio and television and of the CTK news agency , as well as many newspaper editors , were replaced . |
| 5 | A year after the capture of Chichester the Royalists , helped by the irrepressible Ford from his house at Up Park , seized Arundel . |
| 6 | This chapter aims at motivating godly praying in order that leaders will not be sloppy and selfish , but will be shepherds after the heart of Jesus the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep . |
| 7 | Consequently their influence on the Left of the Labour Party was greatly diminished and for several years after the departure of MacDonald the Labour Left was mainly represented by small groups based on defectors from the ILP and , to a lesser extent , from the Communist Party . |
| 8 | Two years after the onset of symptoms the patient was still unable to return to work . |
| 9 | Soon after the introduction of GREAs the government recognized a danger that some authorities might use them as targets , with the consequence that some authorities spending below their GREAs might be encouraged to spend more , while those spending far above them might find the task of cutting back to GREA level too difficult . |
| 10 | Erm , originally is was sung in Latin , in the time of the Stuarts , and then , an er , after the exile of James the Second , and English version appeared . |
| 11 | During this period he collected well over 80,000 ancient coins and other objects which first provided a chronology of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centuries after the death of Alexander the Great . |
| 12 | What is quite clear is that after the death of Lanfranc the English monks felt free to assert themselves in ways that would have been impossible while Lanfranc lived . |
| 13 | After the death of Augustus the style became less restrictive ; pincurls appeared around the brow , and locks of hair escaped the bun , which grew longer and tail-shaped . |
| 14 | Counts needing the wherewithal to attract service were likely to cast greedy eyes on royal benefices within their counties : but in the West Frankish kingdom , the earliest evidence of such " mediatisation " of vassi dominici comes only after the death of Charles the Bald . |
| 15 | 148 Squadron suffered such an attrition rate to its Wellingtons during attacks on Malta 's airfields early in 1941. that immediately after the end of February the unit was withdrawn to Egypt . |
| 16 | A month after the outbreak of war the Bishop of Durham , A. T. P. Williams , wrote in his lovely handwriting a letter sounding Ramsey whether he would become the professor of divinity at the university of Durham . |
| 17 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 18 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 19 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 20 | After a couple of days the answer would come , abstrusely worried in non-rhyming hexameters : ‘ Fortunate is the man who honours his mother and keeps off animal fats . ’ |
| 21 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 22 | After a service of thanksgiving the children were given a ‘ substantial meal of bread and beef ’ ; to observers ‘ the whole scene was one highly creditable to the philanthropy and liberality of the people of Birmingham ’ . |
| 23 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 24 | After a number of days the conference was able to reach an agreement which was set out in a communique dated 21 July 1991 . |
| 25 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 26 | On the weekend of March 16-17 after a week of strikes the public-sector trade union ÖTV reached agreement with the federal government on a 6 per cent pay increase to be backdated to Jan. 1 , 1991 . |