Example sentences of "be follow a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're following a number of enquiries and hope … ’ |
| 2 | In schools which may outwardly appear formal , children may be following a curriculum in which traditional academic studies are encouraged , but are integrated under a ‘ topic ’ or ‘ project ’ umbrella . |
| 3 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 4 | Finally a look ahead to tomorrow 's programme when we 'll be following a detachment of airmen from RAF Lyneham who 've spent the last two months flying food to the starving in Somalia . |
| 5 | For example , a group norm for the young men in an engineering workshop could be to follow a fashion of wearing long hair . |
| 6 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 7 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 8 | One is to follow a set of rules — an algorithm — such as ‘ go to B , then to D , and then to E ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed , when a male is following a female at this time he seems to produce this ‘ chuntering ’ sound almost continuously . |
| 10 | It is based on the National Child Development Study which has been following a cohort of some 15,000 people from their birth in 1958 to early adulthood . |
| 11 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 12 | We 've been following a group through in Glasgow who 've been H , on H R T now for twenty three years ! |
| 13 | He might be told that his client ( a ) has been arrested on a serious charge , ( b ) might be arrested on a charge yet to be defined , or that ( c ) the police are following a line of enquiry . |
| 14 | They had n't bothered tuppence before when he was following a life of crime . |