Example sentences of "[noun] followed [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You will be faced with one or more prompts , words followed by a colon , eg TRANSFER : which may not have responses already filled in .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her .
6 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 .
7 The affricates and are , phonetically , composed of a plosive followed by a fricative , as explained in Chapter 6 .
8 This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table .
9 The diagram shows an over-view of the processes involved and how they reference three types of information : the hyper-medium itself , the names of the trails made by each user held in path and a complete history held in pathitem of each path comprising an initial content-based search followed by a series of navigational commands .
10 Now Havrix , a vaccine given as two initial injections followed by a booster six to twelve months later , will provide up to ten years of immunity .
11 Prospective buyers might , therefore , consider shortlisting and inviting representatives from each different company chosen to an afternoon tea followed by a quiz session .
12 She craved a fairytale wedding followed by a home bursting with children .
13 If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ?
14 Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions .
15 A conversation is built from pairs of transactions , each pair being a statement or question followed by a response to it .
16 A fourth kind of two-part question consists of a book-work question followed by a problem .
17 Another way of interpreting these results is as showing that explicit training is indeed necessary for context-specificity — in this case the two conditions are presented separately ( i.e. there is a block of reinforced trials followed by a block of non-reinforced trials ) but the arrangement is formally equivalent to the explicit discrimination procedure used by Bouton and Swartzentruber ( 1986 ) .
18 After its dignified circling of the house and the conservatory followed by a dive into a tunnel of laburnum and lilac , the path became meaner , more secret .
19 My theory is that living in Lincolnshire most roads consist of hundred yard straights followed by a 90° bend to the right then another hundred yard straight and a 90° bend to the left — just to go round somebody 's field — in fact if it was n't for the drainage ditches you could travel in straight lines — assuming you have a Land Rover that is .
20 Instead , the puritans advocated a regular routine of six days of work followed by a day of rest on the Sabbath , the famous Nonconformist ethic .
21 17.1 Fall-rise and rise-fall tones followed by a tail
22 In the first half of each act we have a seascape followed by a variety of genre scenes interspersed with conversations , arguments , quarrels .
23 It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection .
24 Our theme for the meeting was gardening and 28 Somervillians and guest enjoyed an informative and challenging afternoon with a demonstration and talk on the cultivation of auriculas followed by a garden quiz .
25 The daily schedule of an 8.30 press conference followed by a flight , a bus , a walkabout , a lunch with regional media chiefs , a factory visit , a couple of interviews , a speech and another flight has often meant shorter working hours than a parliamentary day .
26 After my health check I opted to use the fully equipped gym for my first workout followed by a cycle ride to the local village and back .
27 You can drive to the lake , but we recommend you take the footpath running alongside a stream followed by a boat trip on the lake itself .
28 Our Lord 's ministry was styled along the lines of the rabbinic model , with the itinerant teacher followed by a group of disciples who learned by listening , questioning and working under supervision .
29 A special carmine stick replaced rouge on the cheeks followed by a dusting of face powder .
30 On arrival an initial briefing was given by Ronnie Gallacher to explain details of the tufting process followed by a Q and A session , before being shown the manufacturing method
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