Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] followed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was followed at the weekend by reports alleging that Mrs Mandela was implicated in the death of Dr Abu-Baker Asvat , who was murdered in his Soweto surgery in 1989 . |
| 2 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 3 | This was followed by the Company Commander of B Company being asked to organise a barbecue around the swimming pool ( the legacy of a former Commanding Officer who had discovered an under-used JCB in the grounds of the base ) . |
| 4 | This was followed by the creation of a national committee in exile headed by Masaryk in London . |
| 5 | This was followed by the Plague during which 100,000 people died in London alone . |
| 6 | This was followed by the scientific report of an expedition to Barra organised by the Biological Society of the University of Edinburgh ( Forrest et al. , 1936 ) , which included an account of the vegetation ( Watson & Barlow , 1936 ) . |
| 7 | This was followed by the Local Government Act 1888 which established county councils and county borough councils . |
| 8 | This was followed by the voice of another woman : ‘ Even if she survives , she 'll never be right . ’ |
| 9 | This was followed by the ‘ Stay Low ’ campaign , which pursued the now heretical approach that if you had to drink , then you could but make sure you stayed within the limit . |
| 10 | The outstanding early example of this was the D.C.3 , later known as the Dakota , and this was followed by the Spitfire and by many of the famous aircraft of the last War . |
| 11 | This was followed by the cutting of a ribbon across the track by BBC television documentary producer Andrew Johnston . |
| 12 | This was followed by the Harpers & Queen Grand Prix which proved to be another success for Markus Tecklenborg this time riding Franklin . |
| 13 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 14 | When this was followed by the demand that Sukarno resign , the President resisted . |
| 15 | This was followed by the Public Accounts Committee 's first special report , session 1980- , and the government 's response to that report ( Cmnd. 8323 ) . |
| 16 | This was followed by the bowling-alley racket of stones and boulders ricocheting off the walls of the crater as they ascended from a great depth to gush out over our heads in billowing clouds of debris and Our equipment , clothes and bodies were penetrated by the finest , hardest black dust . |
| 17 | This was followed by the main London museums , headed by the British Museum at 3.6 million visits ( The Economist , 1 August 1987 ) . |
| 18 | It had been a long , tiring day … first this big house to be cleaned , then the uphill trek to church and Sunday service ; next came the lunch , which took hours to prepare and only minutes to devour ; this was followed by the inevitable mountain of washing up . |
| 19 | In 1984 the Housing and Building Control Act reduced the qualifying period of tenancy from three years to two and increased the maximum discount from 50 per cent to 60 per cent , and this was followed by the Housing and Planning Act of 1986 which increased the discounts available on flats to 70 per cent . |
| 20 | This was followed by the launch of Tesco 's hugely successful Healthy Eating range , aimed at promoting a balanced diet . |
| 21 | This was followed by the Azores and Back Race in 1983 , sailed in Q2 's predecessor , a UFO 34 called Quixote . |
| 22 | This was followed by the start of their rise to prominence as agricultural engineers . |
| 23 | The execution of the Hurufi was duly carried out , Fahreddin Acemi himself taking an active part , and this was followed by the execution of all his companions . |
| 24 | This was followed by the destruction of research as well as its most significant carriers . |
| 25 | This was followed by the sale of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales in March 1991 [ see p. 38111 ] , which was completed on May 30 with the issue of the prospectus for the flotation of the two Scottish electricity companies , [ see p. 38300 ] . |
| 26 | This was followed by the opportunistic deployment in the Shetlands following the Braer disaster . |
| 27 | Following separate secret ballots which were held on Friday 2 October 1992 , the GS graded staff voted to reject by a 3–1 majority and this was followed by the AP graded staff recording a 4–1 majority in favour of rejection . |
| 28 | This was followed by the 1975 Algiers agreement , which Iraq abrogated in 1980 . |
| 29 | km ) of Iraqi territory in the north , this was followed by the next attacks due in the Val Fajr series , Nos 5 and 6 , both in the centre , and Val Fajr No 6 partly in the south . |
| 30 | The National General Secretary read out the greetings and good wishes received , and this was followed by the Immediate Past President , who introduced representatives of Institute Committees , visiting Presidents and Divisional Representatives and representing the Secretariat . |