Example sentences of "[conj] after " in BNC.

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1 Anybody who has been involved in community organising will have experience of situations where the ( actual or perceived ) formality of the meeting has restricted participation by people who may be active and vociferous before and/or after the meeting .
2 A common question is whether people should be tested before vaccination for existing immunity to HBV and/or after inoculation to determine whether the vaccination was successful .
3 Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed .
4 Sow the seeds in a propagator at 64°F ( 19°C ) in Feb/March , and set out young plants in the garden in late May , or after the last likely frosts in your area .
5 And the swarm of people flowed down the path , stumbling on stones where a burn ran in winter or after thunderstorms , between the silvery wands of rowans with their clusters of blood-drops and the quivering tapestry of the alders , down into the Tay which ran from the west like molten iron , too flashing bright to look at , and over the Tay , wet to the waist ; the girls and boys who had not gone home were prancing and shrieking when they fell full length .
6 Should it be done before or after lettering , and what is the best form of lettering to use ?
7 If you move on or after the 1st April 1991 you will normally lose the reduction although there are certain circumstances when this is not the case . ’
8 One is to say that there are subtle differences which explain alleged inconsistencies , as for example between banning experiments altogether or after 14 days yet allowing later abortions .
9 He had one redeeming feature — his very good nature , except when he was in the boxing ring or after a few whiskies , when everyone gave him a wide berth .
10 These dramatic increases in production intensified during or after World War Two : in Nigeria groundnut production tripled between 1938 and 1948 ; in Uganda coffee production also tripled in the 1950s ; in Zaire there were 800,000 cotton growers by 1950 .
11 This normally occurs after any sudden and serious loss of blood or after excessive fluid loss following a severe bout of diarrhoea .
12 They now told him , in no uncertain terms , that if he had something important to communicate , he could do it in the plant car park during the lunch break , or after working hours .
13 This will prevent flower buds from developing ; if flowering is important , allow the hedge to grow less formally , pruning it annually in spring or after flowering according to variety .
14 Before or after the Fall ?
15 Equally , even after 50 years , the Foreign Office will not place in the Public Record Office any documents relating to the breaking of Japanese codes before or after December 1941 .
16 These individuals are then subjected to differential survival through the operation of a range of mortality factors that eliminate them either before or after reproduction .
17 Would it be best to fit the electric pump in parallel with , or before or after ( ie. in series with ) the existing mechanical pump ?
18 No modification is required to the bulkhead so it would be possible to replace either before or after the engine replacement .
19 The part of the 1988 Act which has upset certain religious minorities has been section 8(3) , which states that all religious syllabuses adopted on or after 29 September 1988 must ‘ reflect the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian whilst taking account of the teaching and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain ’ .
20 Other types of severe mental handicap are either environmental , ie caused by accidents or injuries before or after birth , and due to unknown causes .
21 Cases of mental handicap which occur during or after birth are of course undetectable during the pregnancy , and the autistic child will appear as a healthy baby in the womb .
22 ( See Types of Income ) Choices have to be made about what counts as income , and then further decisions are required to determine whether to sue gross income or disposable income , income before or after housing costs , and whether the average used is an arithmetic mean or a ‘ median ’ or mid-point in the distribution .
23 In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) .
24 According to Wagner 's theory , a period of exposure to the context alone , given either before or after exposure to the target stimulus in that context , should attenuate latent inhibition .
25 Furthermore , as context-stimulus associations are not the sole source of latent inhibition , the model need not be embarrassed by the observation that exposure to the context alone ( either before or after exposure to the target stimulus ) does not abolish the effect .
26 The same author goes on to say that there are cases where land reform , or at least the break-up of large latifundia or estates , had actually accelerated environmental decline , as in Bolivia in the 1950s or after the emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1816 .
27 This was to the advantage of the young radicals ; like the leftists in the NILP , they were not hampered by tradition and did not have to placate their seniors before or after embracing heresy .
28 Training documents if available should be distributed during or after the training session .
29 The initial necessity for building railway stations on the out-skirts of towns caused other companies to adopt the country-house model , with the idea that passengers would spend the night there before beginning their journey or after arriving .
30 Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile .
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