Example sentences of "and following the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was promptly shattered by police arrests , and following the economic downturn of 1899 there was a brief fall-off in strike action and contact between intelligenty and workers declined . |
| 2 | And following the successful privatization of water supply , the early 1990s will see the privatization of electricity supply ; the CEGB will be broken up into two companies ( National Power and Powergen ) , from which the sale proceeds will dwarf the proceeds of previous privatizations . |
| 3 | Canadians were encouraged by Bush 's commitment to the environment and by his interest in Canada demonstrated so soon in his presidency and following the recent promulgation of the US-Canada free trade pact . |
| 4 | Instead , he put a rich range of clear rainbow colours on his palette , replacing the dirty ochre colours with light and more luminous chromium colours , with the addition of Veronese green , ultramarine and lacquer colours , and following the Impressionist recipe in not mixing these colours with anything except white or closely allied colours . |
| 5 | The major insurance companies receive about 10,000 claims each year , and following the severe drought in 1976 the number doubled . |
| 6 | In a sense dance music and the corporate soulboy mentality has destroyed a lot of that — the industry is now based around DJs , recycling hits , remixes and following the latest trend in dance music . ’ |
| 7 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |