Example sentences of "following [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the following few recipes it is easy to see that there was never any one method of making English fruit creams and fools , and that over the past three centuries the two have fused . |
| 2 | For the following twenty-seven days I approached everyone I knew , from the Bow Building Society to distant aunts , even fellow-students , but none of them showed the slightest interest in backing a young woman undergraduate to the tune of sixty pounds in order that she could buy a fruit and vegetable shop . |
| 3 | In the following three chapters I will be examining their significance in three broad contexts : family and community ; the social divisions brought about by age , class , race and gender ; and the criminal justice system and crime control policy . |
| 4 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 5 | Which of these three numbers is the most appropriate depends upon which of the following three statements we think is nearest the truth : |
| 6 | In the following three days they had to get through two complete run-throughs , two technical rehearsals , and one dress rehearsal . |
| 7 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 8 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 9 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 10 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 11 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 12 | In the following two sections we will redress the balance of the choice and ‘ harm to interests ’ theories of the basis of contractual obligations . |
| 13 | The following two snippets I shall pass on , with the caution that the bloke who told me is a Man U supporter . |
| 14 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 15 | Tonight and for the following two nights we are privileged to welcome a quintet of American musicians specially brought together for the Guinness Spot in association with Frank Tate . |
| 16 | For the following two weeks she was to be part of an ENSA company touring remote army camps in Wales . |
| 17 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 18 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 19 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |