Example sentences of "[noun] that after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pure irony that after a climb involving some of the most sustained smooth rock that I 'd ever encountered , the finish involved a traverse of wire cable attached to a telepherique station , a swing down and across metal laddering and a hand-traverse of the spars which guide the telepherique into its housing . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind that after the stinginess of Armadale he had gone to the house of this ‘ hearty welcome ’ , and had been pleased with ‘ a numerous and cheerful company ’ — why did Boswell prove less forthcoming than one might have expected about the Mackinnons ? |
| 3 | He had then put the bottle of whisky out on the table , in the hope that after a couple of shots , Pat Milligan 's rage would abate , and they could talk instead about the Red Sox 's chances in next week 's match against the New York Giants . |
| 4 | In his opening speech , the chair Ruslan Khasbulatov [ for whose election see p. 38537 ] warned the deputies that after the break-up of the Soviet Union the Congress had no longer the excuse of central Union power to influence its deliberations ; the Congress now represented , he emphasised , the highest legislative body of a sovereign state . |
| 5 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 6 | No wonder that after the intense psychological preparation for the big move which never came , many became disillusioned with hachshara and left . |
| 7 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |
| 8 | It says much for the sense of humour of the untidy , bespectacled architect that after the initial shock of the Princess 's request , he accepted the relatively minor commission of building a dolls ' house for the Queen with enthusiasm , and immediately visited the Princess to discuss the project , bringing with him a mutual friend , Sir Herbert Morgan , President of the Society of Industrial Artists . |
| 9 | In contracted to sell wine on terms that after the contract the wine would be stored for the purchaser by the vendor . |
| 10 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 11 | The negative views B. S. Johnson expresses above are fairly widely shared : Malcolm Bradbury points to the existence of a general critical assumption that after the work of the modernists , the ‘ experimental tradition ’ in Britain may simply have lapsed ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 12 | Husameddin 's account of the pilgrimage closes with the statement that after a two-year absence from Turkey , during which time the Seyh Bedreddin affair had been dealt with , Duzme Mustafa had escaped , Edirne and its environs had been recovered , and " nothing remained to be feared " , Molla Fenari , with his son Mehmed Sah , returned to Bursa and his court and students in Jumada I 823/May-June 1420 . |
| 13 | Twice Richards complained about the ball , each time causing a lengthy hold-up to upset the batsmen 's concentration , and behaving with such arrogance that after the match he apologized to the umpires for it . |
| 14 | The only ball that seemed to find the pocket was the white , in a bad dream of in-offs and in-withs — plus , from Julian , a world-class in-instead , the cue-ball struck with such prodigious unintentional sidespin that after a deadened impact it ambled on grimly into the corner bag . |
| 15 | Will the Secretary of State assure the House that after the election and in the event of my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) forming a Government , the right hon. Gentleman will support that Government in seeking to revive the talks on the basis of the three strands that have been the basis of his patient talks over the past two years ? |
| 16 | In fact he was so unnerved by the pitch that after an exploratory foray up the finishing wall and the placement of one runner , he returned and refused to lead further . |
| 17 | It gave her great satisfaction that after a couple of months she proved as expert as Ferdinando , learning rapidly how to drive a hard bargain . |
| 18 | The fact that after the Great War the Liberal party went into decline and the Labour party emerged as a governmental party seemed to indicate that the most interesting developments must have been taking place on the left of British politics , even before the war . |
| 19 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |