Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] following the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adaptation was not due to some sort of learned mechanism involving conscious correction of pointing , because there was a significant difference after adaptation between aim while wearing prisms and that for normal vision following the removal of the prisms . |
| 2 | The more significant the contribution of the dead person , the more powerfully the grief has to be shown , even if it means , as in some eastern countries , hiring women to act as professional mourners following the funeral procession , weeping and wailing . |
| 3 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 4 | Member firms became profitable again in 1989 after heavy losses following the crash of 1987 . |
| 5 | D&B Inc has hired Fred Newall , former vice president of NCR Europe , to head-up its European operations as vice president following the departure of Pierre Donaldson . |
| 6 | The shooting is seen as retaliatory action following the murders of three Roman Catholic civilians by the UFF and UVF last week . |
| 7 | They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters . |
| 8 | All this , of course , is during a time of exaggerated relief following the Pleistocene glaciation . |
| 9 | The move was seen to be due to the normalization of church-state relations following the establishment of the Solidarity-led government . |
| 10 | The radiation of marine faunas following the massive end-Palaeozoic extinctions was a long-continuing , progressive phenomenon , but was marked by a pulse of acceleration and replacement in the mid-Cretaceous , with diversity increase continuing into the Cainozoic ( Fig. 18.6 ) . |
| 11 | In any event , the value of such a provision would depend upon the availability of distributable reserves following the breach . |
| 12 | On June 22 Tokonye Kotelo , hitherto high commissioner in Kenya , was named as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Capt. Pius Molapo ; on June 23 Chief Mohlalefi Bereng was sworn in as the Minister of Interior , Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development , replacing Kgotsi Matete ; three other Cabinet changes were made on June 29 . |
| 13 | Which factors are most likely to limit the spread of liberal democracy following the end of the Cold War ? |
| 14 | Letty knocked and glancing up Emily saw a slight figure with a mass of dark hair following the maid into the room . |
| 15 | The state of emergency imposed throughout the country on Feb. 28 , 1989 , the second day of violent unrest following the introduction on Feb. 16 of an economic austerity programme [ see pp. 36459-60 ] , was lifted on March 9 , 1989 . |
| 16 | He watched the first few matches tee off , then joined the trickle of early spectators following the Red route round the course . |
| 17 | The influence of serious complications following the operation . |
| 18 | The Independent of Oct. 15 cited eyewitness reports of four anti-Chinese protests in Lhasa despite tight security following the alleged killing of a Buddhist monk by police during a protest in September . |
| 19 | 1885 , an annus mirabilis of sexual politics , was also the year of the expansion of the electorate , fears of national decline following the defeat of General Gordon , anxieties about the future of Ireland , and all this in the context of a socialist revival and feminist agitation . |
| 20 | Best of Opposite Sex Following the selection of Best of Breed and Best of Winners , all the winners of the opposite sex to Best of Breed remain in the ring . |
| 21 | In the period of technological innovation following the second world war a group of human relations specialists , working from the Tavistock Institute in London , noted that the social behaviour of workers and their organisational structure in groups and teams was influenced by the technical systems associated with that work . |
| 22 | Mr Foster said Solace welcomed opportunities , challenges and the raising of environmental awareness following the Earth Summit in Brazil . |
| 23 | A second supplement to the notice , United Nations Act 1946 : Serbia and Montenegro of 8 June 1992 , giving details of revised arrangements following the tightening of sanctions , was issued by the Bank of England . |
| 24 | In the educational sphere , for example , he points to the uniformity of local education authorities in adopting a tripartite system of secondary education following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 25 | Tension escalated in Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey following the torture and murder on July 7-8 of Vedat Aydin , 36 , a Kurdish human rights activist and local chairman of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) . |
| 26 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 27 | From the moment in 1979 when Mrs Thatcher swept to power on a wave of uncollected garbage following the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , her radical assault on social democracy and the welfare state was to be a continuing theme of the politics of the 1980s . |
| 28 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 29 | Although neither country was a signatory to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [ see p. 38255 ] , it was felt that the safeguards agreement , the culmination of a series of bilateral initiatives following the return of both countries to civilian government in the early 1980s , would prevent nuclear technology being used to manufacture weapons . |
| 30 | Here is an ostensible shift in the balance of the Government 's approach , reflecting the new composition of the Cabinet but also , perhaps , the new constellation of electoral politics following the disintegration of the centre parties . |