Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the following " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 2 | Lane 1 of each gel contains DNA only , the remaining lanes contain samples incubated for the following time intervals : 1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,15,20,25,30 , 40,50,60,90,120 min . |
| 3 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 4 | Some of the issues typically raised during standard-setting negotiations surfaced in the following case from my field notes : |
| 5 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 6 | This occurred in the following instance : |
| 7 | Substantial improvements were gained before OPEC moved on the following year to attack the issue of equity participation by host governments in the businesses engaged in extracting and exporting the mineral . |
| 8 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 9 | Several changes in tenancy occurred over the following years , but by 1863 , iron founder James Ferrabee , of the Phoenix Iron Works , had taken over Port Mill . |
| 10 | Further clashes occurred over the following two weeks , and on Dec. 6 two high-school students were killed . |
| 11 | The urgency and decisiveness with which he moved over the following six months contrasted markedly with his tentative performance in the post-liberation period and obviously reflected the hard lessons that he had learned . |
| 12 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 13 | He argued that the NHS suffered from the following : |
| 14 | Came in the following Sunday morning with a tie on , no shirt or coat , just a tie . |
| 15 | The sequel came in the following year . |
| 16 | It came from the following advisers : trade union , medical , employer , police , potential defendant , AA/RAC , the advisee 's own insurance company , workmate or fellow patient , friend , relative . |
| 17 | The English novelist Kingsley Amis , considering the film and its possible interpretations , came to the following conclusion : ‘ It 's about being bloody frightened of being eaten by a bloody great shark . ’ |
| 18 | They came to the following conclusions : |
| 19 | They then analysed over 800 one-month spreads for 62 months and came to the following conclusions : |
| 20 | In a miscellaneous pile of documents , I came across the following essay . |
| 21 | I came across the following handwritten entry : |
| 22 | Will she tell us whatever happened in the following two weeks to make her completely cave in . |
| 23 | I proceeded to miss the take — do n't ask me how — and the fact that the same thing happened on the following cast really had me cursing . |
| 24 | Bukharin arrived at the following conclusion : |
| 25 | The cDNA was PCR amplified with the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) 3200/8E2 corresponding to primers from repeats 10 and 11 , and ( 2 ) 3200/5316 corresponding to primers from repeats 10 and 13 . |
| 26 | He reported a familiar parental complaint which began in the following way : |
| 27 | It was , as The Times observed in the following year , a sorry fact that there was ‘ a vague dread of a wholesome birching ’ and that nowadays ‘ the father of a scapegrace ’ no longer saw fit to ‘ save his son from the taint of gaol by loyally and soundly whipping him ’ . |
| 28 | More easily comprehensible is the enormous success Wilcox enjoyed in the following year with Rookery Nook ( 1930 ) , the first of the Ben Travers farces he brought to the screen . |
| 29 | In 1983 , when a much smaller number of students completed IT Advanced Courses , 14 per cent were unemployed at the end of their courses ( 1 ) , a figure which halved in the following six months ( 2 ) . |
| 30 | Mr. Gardiner relied on the following passage in the judgment of O'Connor J. , at pp. 276–277 , as supporting the Woolwich principle inasmuch as he made no mention of the payment having to be exacted for the performance of a duty : |