Example sentences of "[been] follow [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 2 | Furthermore , they would point to the fact that downturns have been relatively temporary and have always been followed by a return to high levels of expenditure . |
| 3 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates the man had been followed by a member of staff and had been seen to drop a bag containing the jeans . |
| 4 | All too often a Friday buying binge has been followed by a weekend of sober reflection and regrets in the cold light of Monday morning . |
| 5 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has declared that the improvement in the quality of water in rivers and lakes in the 1960s and 70s has been followed by a decade of " small but real " deterioration . |
| 6 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 7 | The " Misery of the Human Condition " was to have been followed by a treatise on " The Dignity of the Human Condition " , which was never written , presumably because of Lothar 's election as pope . |
| 8 | On past occasions , the warming of the eastern Pacific his been followed by a warming of the tropical Atlantic , and this typical sequence of events was completed in January 1983 as warm conditions ( ’ positive sea surface temperature anomalies ’ ) began to be reported across the equatorial Atlantic . |
| 9 | ‘ Whenever I have had some sort of public success , ’ he reported in his autobiography , ‘ it has inevitably been followed by a period of personal financial distress and prolonged unemployment . ’ |
| 10 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 11 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 12 | On the one hand , arrest may have been followed by a term of remand and then imprisonment . |
| 13 | These have been followed by a number of local area surveys usually commissioned by Labour-controlled councils and usually focusing on inner city areas . |
| 14 | It was Molly , of course , who introduced Medau work in the Special Needs sector and she has been followed by a number of our teachers who all deserve recognition for their work in this field . |
| 15 | RESHUFFLE fever , which had Tory ministers scuttling around Parliament like hunted rabbits in the days before the ritual disembowelling of Norman Lamont , has been followed by a feeling of severe let-down . |
| 16 | The smile of recognition and welcome for Duncan had been followed by a fit of coughing . |
| 17 | It had been followed by a motion from Bruce Kent , chair of CND , to reduce Britain 's defence spending to the European average of Nato countries . |