Example sentences of "to follow a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is truly a privilege to follow a maiden speech , and I am sure that I express the view of right hon. and hon. Members in all parts of the House in extending a warm welcome to the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) and complimenting him on his words . |
| 2 | Yet two other Nixon nominees to the Court were rejected by the Senate , and in general it continued to follow a liberal path on civil rights and individual liberties . |
| 3 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 4 | It simply is n't possible to follow a calorie-counting method of slimming without owning some dependably accurate weighing scales ideally , dietary scales , because with some foods like fats you need to weigh out very small portions . |
| 5 | The Commission has been instructed that it does not have to follow a uniform pattern throughout the country and therefore we may see still greater diversity over time as , in one shire , we see the county council survive and in another the district councils . |
| 6 | In the usual way the ratio will largely if not wholly be determined in advance of preparation of the firm 's accounts , though , if desired , to follow a modern practice of American origin , final determination of each partner 's share could be agreed to be deferred until after the year 's profits have been ascertained and the performance of each partner assessed in that context : in the interim , permitted drawings would be based on past performance . |
| 7 | A rudderless boat must be perfectly balanced if it is to follow a straight course . |
| 8 | Roh called on North Korea to follow a similar course . |
| 9 | But some of Britain 's leading socialists were ready to follow a similar trajectory . |
| 10 | His five friends are likely to follow a similar route in 1990 . |
| 11 | But if by chance some slightly tripping air should occur , then there 's a universal stamping ; you hear the entire parterre moving , noisily and awkwardly , to follow a certain member of the orchestra . |
| 12 | This will allow the phasing to follow a coherent pattern , to the benefit of both centres and SCOTVEC . |
| 13 | What better motivation to follow a low-fat diet ? |
| 14 | Regardless of nerves ( which should have been largely removed through practice examinations ) , resolve to follow a fixed routine during the examination . |
| 15 | This is user definable and allows modules to be defined to follow a specific process model ie. move through a lifecycle of defined states and transitions . |
| 16 | Individual modules are ordered to follow a specific process model by defining them to be of a particular subtype . |
| 17 | Much of the work that claims to follow a notional/functional line of approach leaves grammar as an implied presence : in sight , perhaps , but not in mind . |
| 18 | OIL TANKERS may have to follow a one-way system where the tanker , Braer , went out of control off Shetland , under plans drawn up by the Department of Transport . |
| 19 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 20 | And finally , if you want to follow a local jockey , Gloucestershire 's Peter Scudamore is the man . |
| 21 | They are designed by individual schools or colleges but have to follow a formal framework of core studies , vocational options and ‘ additional ’ elements , and are subject to approval by the joint board . |
| 22 | Part of the inflationary gap was closed by the success of Bevin in getting the trade unions to follow a voluntary pay policy . |
| 23 | These activities are most likely to appeal to the more methodical student wishing to follow a clear procedure . |
| 24 | Follow the sequence : humans are made in the image of God , given dominion , and then told to follow a vegetarian diet ( Gen. 1:29 ) . |
| 25 | In relation to his work with tiny seedlings , he found that the electrical field around a sprout was not the shape of the original seed but resembled the adult plant , indicating that any developing organism is destined to follow a prescribed pattern of growth generated by the individual EM field of the organism . |
| 26 | Sampling of farms is likely to follow a national land classification system developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood . |
| 27 | He [ Rey ] knows that a given singer will slow the tempo in a given place and that , a moment later , he must push the tempo forward in order to follow a different person . |
| 28 | Another effect of the development of the hard woody stem is that , as soon as they are established , climbers drop the tendency to put up new growth from ground level ( as ramblers do ) and so pruning has to follow a different principle ( see pages 54–72 ) . |
| 29 | There were many well-meaning groups , who were not totally at odds with Catholic teaching , but merely wished to follow a different fashion of Christian life and observance . |
| 30 | In the new climate of the 1980s , Yugoslavia was obliged to follow a different pattern of adjustment and to concentrate on changing the volumes of its commodity exports and imports . |