Example sentences of "[noun prp] follow a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their ordeal on Saturday followed a break-out at a French maximum security prison . |
| 2 | Six players were booked in an ill-tempered second-half though the referee took no action against Liverpool defender Mark Wright following a foul on striker Paul Wilkinson . |
| 3 | AUTOBUS Post-New Wave whizz-kid Eric Rochant follows A World Without Pity with a trip to the French provinces , where a passionate youth quietly dying of smalltown boredom hijacks a school bus to take him to his girl , Charlotte Gainsbourg . |
| 4 | LEVEL 42 have a new record deal with RCA , having settled out of court with their old label Polydor following a dispute over the band 's next album . |
| 5 | The previous incumbent had been recalled in January following a dispute between Australia and the government of former President Hammer DeRoburt over the grounding of Air Nauru services and a strike by pilots over operation and safety issues [ see p. 37091 ] . |
| 6 | Roger Cawley resigned as a director of Woburn Wild Animal Kingdom in Bedfordshire following a storm of protests . |
| 7 | The study by Cumin follows a group of school leavers from their college in Leicestershire out into ‘ the world of work ’ . |
| 8 | The plant , which has a workforce of 356 , went on a four-day week in November following a downturn in demand for its joinery products caused by the recession . |
| 9 | First , the decision would strengthen the cohesion of NATO following a gap in Western defence which the Soviet Union 's deployment of medium-range SS-20 missiles had exposed . |
| 10 | More than 90 people were reported killed between Oct. 2 and 17 in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh following a wave of violence reportedly instigated by Sikh militants . |
| 11 | In the second half of the year the major Japanese banks were already concentrating more effort in Singapore following a downturn in lending to China and a simultaneous rise in business with the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 12 | Pressure on the UK government not to ratify the CRAMRA increased further in October following a campaign by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) and the environmental organization Greenpeace , led by the French underwater explorer , Jacques-Yves Cousteau . |
| 13 | RIVER watchdog officials yesterday continued the clean-up of the River Tees following a spillage of diesel oil earlier this week . |
| 14 | Charles and Emily followed a couple of months later . |
| 15 | The consultancy have been retained by the Thames Valley offices of leading international accountants and business advisers Ernst and Young following a period of ad hoc work for the firm in Reading and Swindon . |
| 16 | The attack at Bullingdon Jail near Bicester followed a row over a stolen stereo . |
| 17 | The analysis of Mercury 's motion commences with the statement that Mercury follows a geodesic in the Schwarzschild space–time around the Sun . |
| 18 | The early part of 1990 witnessed closer relations with France following a visit by Ershad to Paris on Feb. 4-5 and a return visit to Bangladesh by President François Mitterrand on Feb. 22-24 ; in April France promised US$47,400,000 in aid to Bangladesh . |
| 19 | The centre-right Democratic and Social Centre ( Centro Democrático y Social — CDS ) on Jan. 17 , 1990 , lost the leadership of the Las Palmas council in the Canary Islands to the PSOE following a motion of censure tabled by the PSOE with the support of the PCE and the mixed group . |
| 20 | In 1948 he left Britain following a dispute with the Inland Revenue . |
| 21 | FOREIGN FIELDS : Deborah Pugh follows a session of the Cairo climate conference with David Trippier , British Environment Minister The ca n't pay , wo n't pay approach to the problem . |
| 22 | Pétain followed a policy of collaboration with the Nazi ‘ New Order ’ in Europe , whilst claiming to be the defender of French independence . |
| 23 | Through at least the first half of Gravity 's Rainbow , Pynchon follows a method of pursuing multiple plot-lines around and across Slothrop 's search . |
| 24 | SEPT 21 : Booked for fourth time this season in Coca-Cola Cup second round , first leg , against Millwall at Highbury following a tackle on Colin Cooper . |
| 25 | Sud completed the fuselage , tail assembly and nacelles at St. Nazaire , and Dassault ( now Breguet-Dassault following a merger in 1971 ) manufactured the wings exclusive of flaps and aileron , which are built by Reims Aviation . |
| 26 | Red faces all round at Chase Manhattan following a foray into London 's docklands in search of new offices . |
| 27 | An own goal by Harvey following a centre from Davis put Hadleigh in front . |
| 28 | Engineers are still working around the clock to restore services at the Woodhouse exchange in Sheffield following a fire on October 25 , which affected 13,000 customers . |
| 29 | He described his action as a gesture of solidarity with Laurent Gbagbo , the imprisoned leader of the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , who received a two-year prison sentence in March following a riot in Abidjan in February [ see pp. 38753 ; 38802 ] . |
| 30 | In Southampton seamen aboard the Olympic jumped the gun by walking off the liner on 9 June following a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship some days earlier . |