Example sentences of "[noun sg] follow a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This episode followed a period in which the Thatcher government had shown reluctance to maintain such meagre defences as the Falkland islanders possessed . |
| 2 | The murder followed a protest by the Truka community against a local landowner who had enclosed land they believed to be within their territory . |
| 3 | The premature termination of breastfeeding that typically occurs when conception follows a birth in too short a time contributes to inadequate nutrition of the weaned child and explains , at least in part , the morbidity ( and mortality ) levels among children in the second year of life . |
| 4 | The planned research follows a suggestion from the British Mountaineering Council at a meeting in December between access and conservation officer Bill Wright , Land 's End management and local activist Rowland Edwards . |
| 5 | The court action follows a move by his wife Seema earlier this year to dissolve the marriage . |
| 6 | The action follows a blockade on Monday by more than 60 ships at Teesport , Britain 's second largest commercial port . |
| 7 | The accord follows a threat by the Greens to withdraw their support for the Socialists in the regional assembly unless consideration for environmental factors was built into development strategies . |
| 8 | Scotland 's salmon farmers have warned of a severe crisis facing their industry following a meeting with Scottish Office Minister Sir Hector Munro . |
| 9 | We left by the back gate of the manor following a trackway through a wood . |
| 10 | The announcement of the losses , which came to light following a report by the US investment bank J.P . |
| 11 | The issue had come to light following a break-in at the office of his solicitor ( one of a number of such incidents in recent months at premises connected with political parties or with individual politicians ) and the theft of a document on the affair . |
| 12 | The first goes up left of COTW following a line of pegs and is said to hard for the grade . |
| 13 | The Finnish Rural Party ( SMP ) on Aug. 24 withdrew from the governing coalition following a disagreement over pensions in the 1991 budget . |
| 14 | these will require the Computer Services Department to follow a set of procedures |
| 15 | Labour MP Alan Milburn has called for action following a siege in Lyonette Road , Darlington , when 21-year-old Leanne Rees was held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 16 | Drivers who refuse to accept the on-the-spot penal-ties will , as at present , face court action following a report by the police to the procurator-fiscal . |
| 17 | Rigney , after going through a difficult period with a knee injury , is back in action following a summer of hard graft and determined to regain his international berth . |
| 18 | He was responding in a Commons written reply following a row over Labour frontbencher Keith Vaz being refused permission to marry his fiancee Maria Fernandes in the 13th Century Church of England crypt chapel . |
| 19 | Everton 's most successful captain has had to put his career on hold after failing to find a suitable club following a spell in the Scottish Premier League with Dundee earlier this season . |
| 20 | They had a patient with multiple lacerations of the face and neck following a fall through a window , and he needed extensive suturing . |
| 21 | With IES , Yamaichi can judge the best timing of investment following a change in the market . |
| 22 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 23 | His first publication followed a visit to Scotland in August and September of 1885 , when he called on relatives and visited Edinburgh and the Western Isles . |
| 24 | The decision to quit the ERM followed a day of fiasco in which Lamont raised interest rates twice — by five per cent — then cancelled the last rise . |
| 25 | The rapprochement followed a visit by Lao President Kaysone Phomvihane to Thailand in January [ see p. 38724 ] and an invitation by the January summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) to Laos to accede to ASEAN 's 1976 Treaty of Amity and Co-operation ( TAC ) [ see p. 38729 ] . |
| 26 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 27 | BRITAIN 'S safety arrangements for pesticides is in disarray following a ruling by the European Commission that the voluntary code , which is operated by the industry , is a breach of the EEC 's rules on free trade . |
| 28 | Given that many bus operators would be interested in franchisees , what conclusions can be drawn from Badgerline 's reported withdrawal following a threat of an OFT monopoly inquiry ? |
| 29 | The ladies ' champion spoke out on the issue following a visit to the opera in London . |
| 30 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |