Example sentences of "[conj] follow a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The placement might involve " shadowing " a manager , or following a programme of meetings and activities in order to learn as much as possible about business processes . |
| 2 | The informatics graduate can expect to be at the forefront of the development of new software products and tools or to follow a career in developing technology applications for a range of areas — from industry to the public sector and from health care to agriculture . |
| 3 | Other investigators have also shown that the magnitude and duration of excretion that follows a challenge with vaccine virus is correlated with the concentration of serum neutralising antibody . |
| 4 | At a meeting on 8 October 1992 hosted by this department and attended by representatives of District Council Planning Departments and the Scottish Wildlife Trust , the Trust indicated that following a re-survey of sites in Lothian , an updated list of Wildlife Sites with relevant maps will be made available to district planning authorities in Lothian early next year . |
| 5 | When the trial started on Monday , Mr Goldring said that following a number of mysterious incidents involving youngsters at the hospital , it became clear there was a criminal at large on Ward 4 , the children 's ward . |
| 6 | In March 1982 the Board informed the Bunchs ' company that following a review of its sales and marketing strategy it had decided to limit the sale of bulk butter to four other distributors in England and Wales and that , in future , the company would have to purchase its bulk butter from other distributors . |
| 7 | A track on the left passes under a railway viaduct , where the temptation to visit the ravine of White Kirk directly ahead should be resisted until the return journey ; instead , turn right to join and follow a wall along the fellside and , when it turns down , cross the gently rising limestone plateau ahead . |
| 8 | The move came four months after the Diet had approved a law permitting Japanese forces to serve overseas for the first time since the end of the Pacific War [ see pp. 38962-63 ] , and followed a request from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |
| 9 | It called for a return to the sunnah and followed a tradition of Islamic resurgence in Egypt in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | It was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Malaysia and followed a visit by Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah , the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( paramount ruler ) of Malaysia , to China in September 1991 [ see p. 38441 ] . |
| 11 | The meeting was attended by delegates from Belgium , France , Holland , Italy , Sweden and the United Kingdom , and followed a meeting between the Group 's acting chairman , David Morgan , and its Belgian Field Officer , Rik de Gruyter , with the relevant officer at the European Commission 's DG IIXXX , the Directorate Generale responsible for tourism . |
| 12 | The trail starts from the shop in the middle of the campsite and follows a road to the east leading to a well-marked trail climbing into a plantation of larch trees . |
| 13 | On the way the route passes through the town of North Walsham and follows a section of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal before cutting over the Stalham . |
| 14 | Alternatively you can leave the canal , crossing bridge 13 and follow a bridleway on old drove roads to rejoin the canal at bridge 8 . |
| 15 | At the top of the gully turn right and follow a path along the edge of a steep grassy slope on the right . |
| 16 | Normally cautious foxes may be distracted by courtship and follow a mate across a road and into danger . |
| 17 | For example , gully erosion can be treated by mechanical means ( e.g. a masonry drop structure with apron ) , cutting back the gully head to stable ground and planting it to grass and/or trees , and following a variety of agronomic measures above the gully to reverse practices which brought about sheet and then gully erosion in the first place . |
| 18 | Minutes before the end , Bracknell got their just rewards for their hard effort from almost their first chance of the game ; they forced two quick corners and following a scramble in the Town area , John Smith managed to turn the ball home . |
| 19 | The Crowd Behaviour Panel was set up following the Report of the Joint ESRC/Sports Council Panel on Public Disorder and Sporting Events ( 1979 ) ; and following a seminar in 1981 the decision was taken to sponsor a series of research projects which would contribute to the understanding of contemporary crowd disturbances in Britain . |
| 20 | Crowd behaviour The Crowd Behaviour Panel was set up following the Report of the Joint ESRC/Sports Council Panel on Public Disorder and Sporting Events ( 1979 ) ; and following a seminar in 1981 the decision was taken to sponsor a series of research projects which would contribute to the understanding of contemporary crowd disturbances in Britain . |
| 21 | After days of speculation about his future following the collapse of any central authority in the former Soviet Union and following a decision at the Dec. 21 Alma Ata meeting to abolish the post of President , Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation on Dec. 25 in a speech on All-Union Television . |
| 22 | City finally broke away after 29 minutes through centre Mark Potter , and following a scrum on the line flanker Rob Milton drove over to cut the gap to 6–4 at halftime . |
| 23 | But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . |
| 24 | Two non-constituency Council seats were designated for financial services and for sole practitioner representation , and following a resolution at last year 's Annual General Meeting , the Society made an initial pump-priming grant to a newly formed sole practitioners ' group which subsequently achieved Law Society group status . |
| 25 | Casting aside the political labelling , which view is correct : sitting back and following a policy of status quo which allows social change to evolve or embarking on a course of social engineering by positive discrimination ? |
| 26 | It was said Harper had been the boyfriend of Emma , but following a tiff at a pub that evening , he had preferred the company of Rebecca . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ . |
| 28 | So far there 've been no prosecutions but following a period of grace the speeders will now be taken to court . |
| 29 | The tremor of his head , which had begun only lately , had grown more distinct during this conversation ; starting low and shuttling up as though following a fly on a windowpane . |