Example sentences of "[adj] follow a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This followed a profit in the second quarter of $0.6m ( 1992 : $1.7m loss ) . |
| 2 | This followed a rise in the average loss on each tonne of coal from FFr 101.64 in 1980 to FFr 195 in 1983 while state aid increased from FFr 3.9 billion in 1980 to FFr 6.5 billion by 1983 . |
| 3 | This followed a referendum in January , held without Supreme Soviet approval , in which a large majority of the Crimea 's predominantly Russian population had voted for the restoration of the Crimean ASSR outside the Ukraine . |
| 4 | This followed a visit to Italy on March 8-18 by Economy Minister Nechayev . |
| 5 | This followed a meeting with representatives of the Communist Party of Jordan [ see also p. 37751 ] . |
| 6 | This followed a meeting on Tuesday between editors and representatives of national newspapers , which reached broad agreement on the measures they should take to meet public and parliamentary criticism of the standards of the press . |
| 7 | This followed a succession of smaller mergers during the previous decade as the once dominant , but then struggling , independent British car makers joined together in an attempt to gain economies of scale and to maintain their market share in the face of fierce international competition . |
| 8 | This followed a defeat in the US Senate of a resolution which sought to declare April 24 as a " day of remembrance " for Armenians killed in Turkey between 1915 and 1923 . |
| 9 | This followed a spate of incidents in which the ubiquitous Lenin statues had been toppled , blown up or otherwise vandalized in towns across the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | This follows a ruling by the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) in Polysar Investment Netherlands BV v Inspecteur der Invoerrechten en Accijnzen te Arnhem case C — 60/90 . |
| 11 | This follows a campaign by Mrs Victoria Stone , of Kingswinford , West Midlands , whose daughter , Kate , aged 17 , died in a crash as the L-driver was being supervised by a 17-year-old . |
| 12 | But this follows a year of debate about strategy during which some senior ICI board members appeared unhappy about the way Sir Denys has been running the firm . |
| 13 | This follows a charge of shoplifting of an amount of meat from an Ayr superstore . ’ |
| 14 | This follows a statement from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food that the disease can be transmitted to pigs . |
| 15 | The deficit in Australia was down by almost a half following a reduction in claims costs and New Zealand maintained its excellent 1992 performance to produce an underwriting profit for the quarter . |
| 16 | Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December 1979 followed a coup in that country in April 1978 which brought a pro-Soviet Marxist government to power headed by Hafizullah Amin . |
| 17 | She had fallen ill following a dinner at her son 's house and had shown symptoms of arsenic poisoning . |
| 18 | After a slight decline in the 1460s , real wages again increased in the 1470s following a fall in prices , and the peak for the whole period of this book was reached in 1477 . |
| 19 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 20 | The Marshal , whose thoughts were still with the prisoner on his way back to serve fifteen years in the Murate , and who was further distracted by half the talk being in English , was hardly able to follow a word of this interrogation . |
| 21 | The ‘ TV revolution ’ started modestly enough with small screens and black-and-white pictures , which were not able to follow a match with the fluency , play-backs , close-ups , and other techniques that have made sport increasingly a ‘ televisual ’ phenomenon of late . |
| 22 | ‘ Those who care about keeping their hands clean stay away , though we are apt to follow a general in a crisis . |
| 23 | John 's Carpenter 's best movie since Assault On Precinct 13 follows a loner/drifter in Reagan 's America . |
| 24 | This is part of the old corpse road that leads from Keld over the flanks of Kisdon Hill and turns above Thwaite to follow a line above the river , passing by Muker and on to Grinton . |
| 25 | While the biographical sources normally mention the professors from whom the student received lessons , they rarely mention the medrese at which the professor was teaching , so that it is extremely difficult to follow a student from medrese to medrese . |
| 26 | The Government was actually correct to follow a course of defeating inflation from which rebuilding a new economic base of excellence could begin . |