Example sentences of "to follow the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if it is necessary to follow the child around from one room to another , or if it is desirable to record a child with other children or with more than one adult present , then it is advisable to use a radio microphone which can be attached to the child 's clothing . |
| 2 | However , as the operator traces a line extra errors arise because it is impossible to follow the centre of the line exactly and some displacement of the cursor on either side of the line is inevitable . |
| 3 | The accuracy of a digital representation of a line depends not only on the ability of the person using the digitizer to follow the centre of the line on the map exactly but also on the number of points they input to describe the shape of the line ( Aldred 1972 ) . |
| 4 | Then the route goes north to follow the road going to the west before heading north back to the car park . |
| 5 | She had only to follow the road now . |
| 6 | Later it is easier to follow the road , which is never far from the line , to Aberangell . |
| 7 | In other words , to begin to defy the dictates of ageism , and to follow the philosophy of ‘ I do , therefore I am ’ . |
| 8 | Italo Calvino 's last complete book , Mr Palomar ( 1985 ) , opens to the movement of waves and the look of a solitary observer whose gaze attempts to follow the progress of one single wave in its passage , separated and isolated from that of all the others , from open sea to shore . |
| 9 | These well appointed boxes provide an excellent vantage point to follow the progress of the Nat West Trophy , and the Roses match . |
| 10 | Maughan and Rutter ( 1987 ) report on an extension of Fifteen Thousand Hours where the opportunity was taken of the existence of the original 1970 data set to follow the progress of some of the pupils throughout their secondary education in either comprehensive or grammar schools . |
| 11 | It can be used to follow the progress of linear condensation reactions when an end group , such as a carboxyl , is present which can be titrated . |
| 12 | TV monitors were suspended from the roof of the stand to enable spectators to follow the progress of the race around the circuit , and she raised her eyes . |
| 13 | During the first film , Storm Over the Nile , there is such a storm of noise in the cinema from the drunken audience that it proves impossible to follow the plot at all . |
| 14 | It is usually possible to follow the plot without understanding every word in the story and you can choose stories on video which have a strong visual contribution to the storyline . |
| 15 | But if you read a book , you 've got to concentrate otherwise you 're not going to follow the plot . |
| 16 | The questions remain whether an arbitrator is obliged to follow the litigation practice and whether an expert is prohibited from doing so . |
| 17 | The answers seem to be that : ( 1 ) an arbitrator may be obliged to follow the litigation practice if he is to avoid an allegation of misconduct , unless the arbitration rules concerned specifically preclude those procedures or the parties both agree they need not be followed ; and that ( 2 ) the position of an expert will depend first on whether the parties have any specific requirements . |
| 18 | For now , continue to hold the camcorder steadily except to follow the subject as you did on Day One . |
| 19 | Also , as compared with a shot in which the subject traverses the picture directly from one side to the other , the diagonal movement gives the eye longer in which to take in what is going on and it reduces the need to pan the camera to follow the subject . |
| 20 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 21 | We walked along Styhead Gill to follow the south traverse and crabbed our way across scree slopes . |
| 22 | The greatest gain , however , is most likely to be the sort of attitude-change on the part of the public that has been seen to follow the Woonerf experiments , the Dutch cycle projects and the German traffic calming demonstrations . |
| 23 | ‘ OK ? ’ mouthed Ace , her eyes veering from Defries 's face to follow the trajectory of the boot . |
| 24 | The Jacobites had planned to follow the proclamation at Braemar by seizing Edinburgh Castle , which would have got the rebellion off to a flying start , for with the Castle gone the city would almost certainly have been captured . |
| 25 | Somewhere in the middle of the fourth book , Gray includes an Epilogue in which he invites readers to follow the text in one order but think about it in another . |
| 26 | Players now need to know clearly when they are onside or offside in order to follow the ball . |
| 27 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 28 | The Roman barn projected into this field and we needed to complete the plan and to follow the wall of the south range . |
| 29 | The Electricians Union was prepared to follow the AUEW and , already faced with the breakaway Democratic Miners ' Union in Nottingham , the TUC was forced to find a face-saving formula to avert a possible split . |
| 30 | It was soon obvious that Glisseuse was making her way up Thames by way of the shallow inshore Four Fathom Channel which leads inside the Margate Sands to follow the North Kent coast . |