Example sentences of "[was/were] following the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the bigger names were following the European clay circuit , Korda was reaching only the second singles final of his career in Tampa . |
| 2 | Some of the queue was syphoning off into a road signposted for Algar Seco , a bizarre coastal rock formation on the outskirts of the village , while other vehicles were following the one-way system and looping in and out of the square . |
| 3 | They were following the concrete channel of the serpentine rill , which emptied itself into a pool of stygian blackness . |
| 4 | Many were following the old General ( later Combined ) Degree which allowed them to study three subjects for finals . |
| 5 | ‘ He should have accepted that the two beetles were following the natural curve of the surface — it 's simpler . |
| 6 | In the same way , we in our turn should accept that you and the Shuttle were following the natural curve of our space . ’ |
| 7 | Initially viewed with doubt , it was not long , however , before most manufacturers were following the French team 's lead and developing turbo-charged engines . |
| 8 | He kept the Kennedy men in key positions , all of them convinced that the USA was following the correct policy : Dean Rusk at State , Robert McNamara at Defense and McGeorge Bundy as Special Adviser . |
| 9 | It was following the right hon. Gentleman 's removal from that high post that the Government fell apart . |
| 10 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 11 | In this he was following the ordinary practice of court officials , who were exceptionally well placed to collect offices in plurality : the first Earl of Pembroke held thirty-eight posts in addition to his place in the Privy Chamber . |
| 12 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 13 | In this , he was following the main line of traditional Reformed theology , and indeed of western theology in general . |
| 14 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
| 15 | His chief officers formed a board which had a very considerable measure of authority to determine its own ways ( witness , for example , the Western Region 's adventure with diesel-hydraulic locomotives when the remainder of British Railways was following the diesel-electric path , or the Eastern Region 's policy of civil engineering for speed ) . |