Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the following " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of vessels were turned away in the following days . |
| 2 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 3 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 4 | His proposals for the composition of his government were approved overwhelmingly on the following day . |
| 5 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 6 | This belief was borne out by the following facts : |
| 7 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century began the vogue for flagellation , which was to run well into the following century . |
| 8 | The standard of care expected of a doctor was laid down in the following case . |
| 9 | The post , and thus the clearinghouse , was established early in the following year 1977 . |