Example sentences of "[noun] follow [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 .
2 It must be acknowledged there was between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty four a slump in the ship building industry followed by a slump in world sea-borne trade .
3 Iran and India sought to put forward a six-point peace plan , based on Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait followed by the pull-out of Western forces from the region .
4 A large stone can provide a technical problem particular if hard ; in patient XIII the lithotrite cored a hole in a 28 mm stone , which did not break up and required subsequent cholecystoscopy and contact lithotripsy followed by a second rotary lithotripsy procedure .
5 Towards the end of the final reel came the scrape and swish of the velvet curtains being swept across on their metal rods followed by the clank of the push bars and the sudden rush of cold night air down the back of the neck .
6 Another patient developed a persistent hepatitis of unknown aetiology at six months followed by a normal biopsy specimen at 15 months .
7 Connery came to Scotland to receive the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh , one of those civic honours which usually passes in a bit of ceremony followed by a bit of dinner .
8 As is the custom , the annual Conservative Party conference begins with a brief religious ceremony followed by an official greeting from the local Mayor .
9 You will be faced with one or more prompts , words followed by a colon , eg TRANSFER : which may not have responses already filled in .
10 Watching Bobo he repeated the sign in full , a stylised outlining of the fruit with thumb and forefinger followed by an exaggerated peeling gesture .
11 With some clients that can be five minutes discussing the house , the garden or a hobby of theirs with others it could mean a short exchange of pleasantries followed by a suggestion to proceed with your intended business .
12 A short crossing over the peat groughs to the south and you are soon peering from one of the eroded rocky buttresses down into Grindsbrook , whose eastern fork provides entertaining scrambling over rocky steps followed by a gentle amble , perhaps in the gathering gloom , down the widening track and fields to the twinkling lights of Edale .
13 Each time the effect is the same ; confusion followed by a peering at familiar things , then an inventory to work out what went this time .
14 This has been the practice followed on the eastern side of the county at Adamthwaite in the Howgills and is explained in the INTRODUCTION .
15 The Act is drafted so as to apply to any foreign State , a practice followed in the criminal context by the Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Act 1990 .
16 The distribution of authorship number showed a sigmoidal increase up to six authors followed by a steep fall to seven authors and more gentle fall to 11 authors ( fig 3 ) .
17 ‘ Discovery methods ’ , or ‘ child-centred learning ’ were ( and continue to be ) the phrases most commonly used to describe the methods followed by the informal schools .
18 So this was what Ollie took to doing , reducing his performance to a series of loud inhalings followed by a curt nod .
19 Under the June 1952 Hague Agreements reparations were paid to Israel , and other payments to Jews followed in the Indemnification Laws of 1953 .
20 She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her .
21 What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ?
22 ‘ Every car that comes along the line is different — a station wagon followed by a sports car followed by an export model .
23 The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name .
24 There is a single cabin door on the right-hand side followed by an upward-opening baggage door leading to a 25 cu.ft. baggage hold where up to 200 lbs of Y-Fronts and the like may be carried .
25 The impact of the hammer hitting the brass casing of the cartridge had caused a flash of blue light followed by an enormous bang .
26 , Current editions of the UK half-million ICAO Aeronautical Charts have scattered across them pairs of numbers printed in blue , one large figure followed by a smaller one , thus : for example .
27 Such infusion of caerulein in chronic pancreatic fistula rats caused a marked increase in protein output from basal secretion of 10 mg/30 minutes to 40 mg/30 minutes in the first hour of infusion followed by a decline in protein output to 15–20 mg/30 minutes in the following hours of the experiment .
28 The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street .
29 The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage .
30 Other humiliations followed in the weeks after the death and funeral of his lordship .
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