Example sentences of "[be] following a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're following a number of enquiries and hope … ’ |
| 2 | In schools which may outwardly appear formal , children may be following a curriculum in which traditional academic studies are encouraged , but are integrated under a ‘ topic ’ or ‘ project ’ umbrella . |
| 3 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 4 | Finally a look ahead to tomorrow 's programme when we 'll be following a detachment of airmen from RAF Lyneham who 've spent the last two months flying food to the starving in Somalia . |
| 5 | Ptarmigan seems to be following a strategy similar to that adopted by Mr Wilbraham in 1989 . |
| 6 | In this book I shall be following an understanding of modernity established by the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre ( 1981 ) and the sociologist Peter Berger ( 1969 ) . |
| 7 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 8 | The right hon. Member for Finchley said yesterday that she would vote for the Government because they were following a path that she favoured — in precisely the opposite direction . |
| 9 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 10 | He is following a correspondence course in gardening for adults with comparative ease . |
| 11 | Indeed , when a male is following a female at this time he seems to produce this ‘ chuntering ’ sound almost continuously . |
| 12 | These visitations , which might be formal or informal , seek to establish whether the school is following a programme appropriate to the needs , ages and abilities of the pupils who attend it . |
| 13 | Sarah is glad to lead a more settled lifestyle now and is following a teacher training course in Birmingham . |
| 14 | It may appear to an outsider that the anorexic is following a set pattern : self-confidence combined with an incredible energy is succeeded by despair and eventual collapse . |
| 15 | sort of there 's a model , a conversational model and if it if it 's if it 's conversation is following a model then it 's It means that it 's running smoothly |
| 16 | She observes that the prisoner is following a prohibition laid down in the Old Testament , but that a rabbinical ruling had allowed Jews to eat in the camps on Yom Kippur in order to stay alive . |
| 17 | They had a video , about two songs back , where this bloke 's following a woman and she 's looking around . |
| 18 | We studied 20 children with coeliac disease who had been following a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 19 | She had been following a trail Minter had turned his back on , but Harry had the photographs to keep him on course . |
| 20 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 21 | It is based on the National Child Development Study which has been following a cohort of some 15,000 people from their birth in 1958 to early adulthood . |
| 22 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 23 | We 've been following a group through in Glasgow who 've been H , on H R T now for twenty three years ! |
| 24 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 25 | Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome . |
| 26 | We now have an opportunity to benefit from lessons learned , as , during the past year , we have undertaken a pilot scheme to integrate life preparation students with Sports and Leisure students who are following a City and Guilds course . |
| 27 | As so often happens in North West cricket , they are following a family tradition . |
| 28 | They are following a path that leaves them vulnerable to just the type of discount-retailing that has flourished in Germany . |
| 29 | He might be told that his client ( a ) has been arrested on a serious charge , ( b ) might be arrested on a charge yet to be defined , or that ( c ) the police are following a line of enquiry . |
| 30 | They had n't bothered tuppence before when he was following a life of crime . |