Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] the following [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1970 the official limit , not for the first time , was set at no less than 12,000 kilograms , a fair bit up on the I935 maximum of 7,500 kilograms , while the average yield topped I3,800 kilograms per hectare and , after setting the official limit at I3,000 kilograms in 1973 , a law was passed the following year placing an absolute ceiling of 13,000 kilograms per hectare on all AOC Champagne vineyards , beyond which the so-called maximum could not be stretched . |
| 2 | On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day . |
| 3 | Troops quickly dispersed the students , but further unrest was reported the following day , prompting the authorities to close down the country 's universities and colleges . |
| 4 | Chant 's body was discovered the following day by 93-year-old Albert Burke , who found it while looking for his errant mongrel , Kipper . |
| 5 | Her body was discovered the following day when her home help raised the alarm . |
| 6 | Her mutilated body was discovered the following evening . |
| 7 | Antonio Gilvan da Cruz 's body was found the following morning . |
| 8 | There were complaints — and a retraction was published the following week . |
| 9 | Up to 1939 , the local flour mill was in operation and the last iron-rimmed wooden cartwheel was made the following year . |
| 10 | Evidently Sir Hans supported this glowing testimonial as the appointment was made the following year . |
| 11 | The need for such a strategy was reinforced the following year when , in blocking the Dixons bid , the Monopolies and Mergers Commission effectively ruled out any further sizeable acquisitions by the group in the UK . |
| 12 | High ratings and positive viewer response , however , ensured that a second season was broadcast the following year , this time without controversy . |
| 13 | A few days later he had a letter from a listener asking him why he 'd told them that his gas bill was arriving the following day . |
| 14 | ( The " opt-out " clause was welcomed the following day by the UK government , but the idea of this non-binding declaration was dismissed as " pretty irrelevant " by a UK government official . ) |
| 15 | So I faxed this in to The Guardian , and they duly printed it , but any thought that this small contribution to knowledge settled the matter was dispelled the following week , when another completely bogus answer was printed ? |
| 16 | In the first trial year the Project material was used by ten schools , and in its improved form was used the following year by eleven schools ; and in most cases this involved some 120 children at a time . |
| 17 | Oil was discovered in the south-west in 1908 and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was founded the following year . |
| 18 | The official opening ceremony was attended by our customers — and potential clients — and by the Bishop of Warrington and local MPs , whilst the building was opened the following day for staff and their families . |
| 19 | Gastroscopy was repeated the following year and she was found to have antral gastritis . |
| 20 | Before either her mother or Lydia had the opportunity for a quiet chat with Martha , the even tenor of life in the kitchen was disrupted the following day , by the arrival of Tamar . |
| 21 | The decision was attacked the following day by Drazen Budisa , chairman of the opposition Croatian Social Liberal Party ( HSLS ) , who complained that " several thousands of inhabitants of Vukovar imprisoned in Serbian camps " and " tens of thousands of Croats from Central Bosnia about whom we have no information " would be unable to obtain their Croatian nationality and thus the right to vote . |
| 22 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 23 | The suspension of over 40 federal laws in the republic was announced the following day . |
| 24 | A week later parliament formally adopted a decree permitting the establishment of political parties , and the party was registered the following day . |
| 25 | Hammers and shovels used to disappear without trace , a newly laid stretch of track was found the following morning with all the wooden keys on the tunnel side all knocked out . |