Example sentences of "[noun sg] followed [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is the custom , the annual Conservative Party conference begins with a brief religious ceremony followed by an official greeting from the local Mayor . |
| 2 | Watching Bobo he repeated the sign in full , a stylised outlining of the fruit with thumb and forefinger followed by an exaggerated peeling gesture . |
| 3 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 4 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 5 | There is a single cabin door on the right-hand side followed by an upward-opening baggage door leading to a 25 cu.ft. baggage hold where up to 200 lbs of Y-Fronts and the like may be carried . |
| 6 | The impact of the hammer hitting the brass casing of the cartridge had caused a flash of blue light followed by an enormous bang . |
| 7 | Of course , it is hardly the fault of the credit industry that government macro-economic policy encouraged a consumer boom followed by a deep recession . |
| 8 | He was thirty-eight years old with a youthfully handsome face , tousled auburn hair that hung untidily over the collar of his open-necked white shirt and a sturdy , muscular physique which he kept in shape with a daily five-kilometre run followed by a punishing workout in his own private gymnasium . |
| 9 | The slow learning of the group given consistently reinforced pre-exposure can be taken as being a special case of latent inhibition — of associability being lost by a stimulus followed by a consistent consequence . |
| 10 | It is always tempting to push on , but why not consider the pleasures of a few hours snoozing in the sun followed by a swift descent on hardening snow ? |
| 11 | Subsequently , detection of a cytoplasmic anti-neutrophil antibody was reported by others , using a two stage procedure of enzyme linked immunosorbent assay followed by an immunofluorescent method . |
| 12 | The First Archilochean is technically defined as a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic trimeter catalectic — meaning that the last foot in the second line ( the trimeter ) is incomplete and is suspended on a ( usually ) long syllable , with an effect , in recital , comparable with that of a " rest " in music . |
| 13 | Since it always ends up being drawn back to Europe , a presence that can be swiftly reinforced makes better sense than a withdrawal followed by a panicky rush back when some new danger arises . |
| 14 | " Universal " pansies should be available in pots now and will flower in mild spells all winter followed by a big burst in spring . |
| 15 | A refreshing and tangy Mango Sorbet followed as a second course for both . |
| 16 | The development of LTP appears to proceed through at least two ( possibly three ) phases , with a brief initiation period followed by a longer-term maintenance phase , which have been seen as analogous to the transitions between short- and long-term memory . |
| 17 | For instance , in a group of patients with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis who were treated with an elimination diet followed by a wheat-free diet , cervical reintegration and the green-lipped mussel preparation , Seatone , significant and often dramatic improvements were obtained in a fortnight of an order similar to , or better than , those obtained by either homoeopathy or Seatone alone over a period of three to six months . |
| 18 | On arrival , you 'll enjoy a relaxing body massage followed by a facial session . |
| 19 | Above the noise of the wind and rain there came a long tearing sound followed by a heavy thud . |
| 20 | The inevitable result was over-capacity in the market place followed by a vicious price war . |
| 21 | There was a cry followed by an awful groan , but it was not her voice . |
| 22 | The new paradigm , full of promise and not beset by apparently insuperable difficulties , now guides new normal scientific activity until it too runs into serious trouble and a new crisis followed by a new revolution results . |
| 23 | For a garment piece that is to be knitted in more than one stitch pattern ( a border followed by an all-over pattern for example ) , it is necessary to combine all the appropriate individual patterns into one large stitch pattern before integrating with the garment piece . |
| 24 | When there is a low head followed by a falling tone , successive stressed syllables in the head will tend to move upwards towards the beginning pitch of the tone : |
| 25 | The annual feast when the ‘ men only ’ members wearing blue sashes and white gloves marched with a band to the church for a service followed by a dull dinner in the Board inn clubroom , then in the afternoon there were sports for the whole village . |
| 26 | But he was in thrall to Deuce , who now reappeared in the distance followed by an over-liveried porter who was carrying two large suitcases . |
| 27 | Hyatt in particular argued that the fossil invertebrates he studied showed patterns of progressive , Lamarckian evolution followed by an inexorable decline into racial senility and extinction . |
| 28 | It follows that the vertical eight will be next in the practice schedule followed by an intentional landing as distinct from those earlier arrivals . |
| 29 | The history of each new class could be seen as a sudden explosion of development followed by a gradual decline , just like the rise and fall of human empires : |
| 30 | They finished with an amazingly professional-looking canter demipirouette followed by a flying change as they hit the track . |