Example sentences of "following a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the issue was not settled and following a rating revaluation in Scotland , which caused much unrest , a further inquiry ( the fourth in fifteen years ) began , which resulted in the 1986 Green Paper , Paying for Local Government . |
| 2 | Following a Federation Council meeting on Jan. 3 Gorbachev announced on television that a provisional agreement had been reached to end the budget deadlock . |
| 3 | Charles died on the 28th January 814 , after complications following a winter cold . |
| 4 | BRITISH soldiers who were being held ‘ hostage ’ by women and children in a Bosnian village have pulled out following a shelling attack by besieging Serb forces . |
| 5 | Keegan is understood to have met with Hall , vice-chairman George Forbes and director Freddie Shepherd at a secret destination following a crunch board meeting at the club . |
| 6 | The links are set up temporarily by the DBMS at run time following a user request for this information . |
| 7 | Mr Harris , a sub-divisional commander based in the Co Down area , was on sick leave following a heart attack . |
| 8 | Curran died 9 January 1980 at Barnet General Hospital following a heart attack . |
| 9 | Expert determination is also used for the adjustment of the rate at which a convertible redeemable preference share is to be converted into , typically , an ordinary share , following a capital reorganisation or rights issue of the ordinary shares in the company . |
| 10 | A brawl following a coach collision was unlikely to have led to fatal violence being offered to a woman . |
| 11 | On the third evening of his stay , for instance , a couple of the wilder sons of the local gentry had turned up half tipsy from their celebrations following a squirrel hunt . |
| 12 | Just 11 days earlier , the big striker was booed off at Maine Road following a Coca-Cola Cup defeat by Spurs but it was different this time , even though he has not scored a goal since . |
| 13 | Tall blocks ( five or more storeys ) accounted for 26 per cent of all local authority buildings in 1966 , though by 1970 the figure had fallen to 10 per cent in the aftermath of the Ronan Point disaster in 1968 , in the London Borough of Newham when , following a gas explosion , a structural failure resulted in partial collapse . |
| 14 | Those doubts disappeared following a telephone call she received while Prince Charles was on a skiing holiday in Klosters , Switzerland . |
| 15 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 16 | Since mid-July there had been mounting press speculation of imminent military action by the US and its Western allies , following a US warning on July 16 that it was determined to enforce Iraqi compliance with UN Gulf war resolutions . |
| 17 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |
| 18 | Harrogate scored all their points in the first half with a try by their Yorkshire scrum half , Guy Easterby , from a blind side scrum move , Steve Baker touching down a try following a tap penalty move . |
| 19 | However , while Clarke should be fit after the recurrence of a back problem , the Cookstown player 's chances of featuring today are rated no higher than 50-50 , following a hamstring injury , sustained on Friday . |
| 20 | Wright , who was passed fit to play shortly before the kickoff following a hamstring injury , struck emphatically on the end of a lightning exchange of passes with Paul Merson and Kevin Campbell which cut the Palace defence to ribbons . |
| 21 | I was very surprised when , following a phosphate surge in my tapwater , I used a phosphate-removing compound in my filter . |
| 22 | Fifteen months later , following a boardroom row , Miquel was replaced by Garfunkels chief , Philip Kaye . |
| 23 | ( 8 ) If there are allotted but unissued shares in the target outstanding ( eg on provisional allotment letters following a rights issue ) the Panel must be consulted . |
| 24 | NEWLY created office space following a refurbishment scheme by owners Abaar Property and Development is available , either for disposal or on lease . |
| 25 | Here , he would have heard of poor Mansfield 's terrible death following a naphtha fire in a derelict building in St Pancras , as well as of G. F. Wilson 's new processes for producing cheap glycerin soaps and ( Price 's patents ) candles from low-grade fats , and of Abel and Spiller 's progress at Woolwich Arsenal on organo-nitrate explosives . |
| 26 | Police are hunting arsonists following a dutch barn blaze at Liverton Lodge Farm , near Loftus , when 500 bales of hay and 1,000 bales of straw were destroyed at the weekend . |
| 27 | The remains of Letelier were returned on Nov. 4 from Venezuela to the Chilean capital , Santiago , where they were buried in the central cemetery following a state funeral attended by President Patricio Aylwin Azócar and his entire Cabinet . |
| 28 | The headteacher who organises a school on ‘ traditional ’ lines , the children sitting in rows of desks , following a school day which is divided into periods in each of which teachers deliver packets of information , can argue that his or her educational programme is appropriate . |
| 29 | He had proposed that they be left in the cellar , to be liberated later by the police following a phone call from abroad . |
| 30 | Previously , on Nov. 29 , 1989 , a communiqué released in Johannesburg by the PAC and its internal allies following a weekend conference in Harare , had rejected out of hand negotiations with the South African regime as long as apartheid legislation remained on the statute books . |