Example sentences of "[verb] to follow a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole . |
| 3 | And finally , if you want to follow a local jockey , Gloucestershire 's Peter Scudamore is the man . |
| 4 | The judicial authority executing the request applies its own laws and procedures , save where a request is made to follow a special method or procedure , which is not incompatible with the law of the State of execution or impossible of performance by reason of its internal practice and procedure or by reason of other practical difficulties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Follow the sequence : humans are made in the image of God , given dominion , and then told to follow a vegetarian diet ( Gen. 1:29 ) . |
| 7 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 8 | These activities are most likely to appeal to the more methodical student wishing to follow a clear procedure . |
| 9 | This will allow the phasing to follow a coherent pattern , to the benefit of both centres and SCOTVEC . |
| 10 | At this point he decided to follow a mathematical career and soon he had added the senior mathematical scholarship to his list of honours . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although these reports do not have to follow a common style and content each contain information in a common format . |
| 14 | If a Board chose to follow a generous policy , for example of paying outdoor relief to the unemployed , and could persuade local ratepayers to finance it , the central authority had some difficulty in stopping such action unless corrupt use of the money or the raising of excessive loans could be proved . |
| 15 | To what extent they are affected , and whether this makes them dependent upon forces that are beyond their control in the way they exercise their discretion , as opposed to being ‘ free agents ’ and therefore capable of choosing to follow a different policy in the light of changing circumstances , is the subject of this section . |
| 16 | Regardless of nerves ( which should have been largely removed through practice examinations ) , resolve to follow a fixed routine during the examination . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 19 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Trying to follow a mathematical argument is very different from following an argument that 's set down in plain English , in a qualitative way . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal is bound to refuse to follow a previous decision of its own which , even though not expressly overruled , can not in its opinion stand with a subsequent decision of the House of Lords . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There are many ways to beat the machines , but losses tend to follow a common pattern . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To qualify as a true Prisoner 's Dilemma , remember , the payoffs have to follow a particular rank order . |
| 27 | And to keep this sort of information confidential , those operating the P N C have to follow a detailed compliance manual . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The economy of a peasant household tended to follow a biological pattern , rising as the family expanded , declining as the adults grew old and the children left home . |
| 30 | Individual modules are ordered to follow a specific process model by defining them to be of a particular subtype . |