Example sentences of "the [noun] follow [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If the structure of ( 22 ) is an appropriate formulation of the patterns followed by the language user , then certain facts about English questions again fall into place quite naturally .
2 One further patient ( case 15 in table III ) had a second address in another part of Britain , to which he should correctly be allocated under the rules followed by the national cancer registration scheme ; he has therefore been excluded from the analyses .
3 The leading authority on the constitution in the twentieth century , Sir Ivor Jennings , had no doubt that Britain was an outstanding example of a democratic system at its best because the rulers governed according to the will of the people in the sense that there was a " close relation between the policies followed by the Government and the general ideas of the majority of the electorate " .
4 Almost immediately , as they disappeared behind the buildings of Valetta , we saw the flash followed by the crump of bursting , and the black clouds of smoke rising vertically into the still air .
5 The decisions taken influence the path the user follows through the information .
6 Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .
7 By the following Monday ‘ Downing Street sources ’ were telling journalists that the records of those two ad hoc meetings showed ‘ that a majority of those present were probably prepared to repudiate or reject ’ the course followed by the national armaments directors of Western Europe , the basis of the European consortium 's bid .
8 For example , pressing the key followed by the F key will take you into the filer popdown .
9 But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action .
10 This has been the practice followed on the eastern side of the county at Adamthwaite in the Howgills and is explained in the INTRODUCTION .
11 ‘ Discovery methods ’ , or ‘ child-centred learning ’ were ( and continue to be ) the phrases most commonly used to describe the methods followed by the informal schools .
12 While they were in their last port of call , the Volunteer , Tommy even disappeared out of the pub followed by the barmaid , a pert , slightly plump girl called Rose .
13 The activity on the road on the other side of the orchard had increased , there were troops and the occasional vehicle moving up and through the village followed by the usual German mortaring of the road and orchard .
14 The drafters of the new rules anticipated that , in the Condescendence , the pursuer would require to state briefly the facts relied on as causing the accident followed by the fairly bald averment that the accident was caused by fault and negligence of the defender .
15 However , even at positive angles , a sudden closing of the throttle followed by the model striking the ground can deflect the blades far enough to cause contact .
16 The announcement follows in the wake of a government decision in principle in June to provide protection to 20 sites of national importance whose survival is threatened by urban and tourist development .
17 Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out .
18 This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years .
19 Before setting out such facts and relating to the sentences on the individual offenders as are material for the purposes of these appeals , it is necessary first to describe the procedure followed by the Secretary of State in exercising his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and the steps by which he came to adopt that procedure .
20 The course the strike followed in the village was of an initial passive consensus led by activists , which with the onset of local strikebreaking ( Sept 1984 ) became transformed into an active consensus with widespread mobilisation .
21 YOUNGSTERS have the chance to follow in the footsteps of rugby Grand Slam greats Rob Andrew and Rory Underwood this Easter , courtesy of a council 's sports programme .
22 Thus , the policy followed by the Conservative government of reducing income tax and increasing VAT necessarily favours the better off .
23 Product manager ( special editions ) Madeleine McMullin said : ‘ We hope the exhibition follows in the footsteps of the Peter Rabbit show which was so successful . ’
24 A final evaluation based on the objectives follows at the completion of each module .
25 Unscrew the locking ring and position on the pipe followed by the sealing ring ( make sure this is the correct way round )
26 From Wyeth 's description this seems to have been the approach followed in the PET case .
27 This is the approach followed in the present paper , where the emphasis is on allowing as much heterogeneity as possible and use the available disaggregated information given the nature of our data set .
28 The front of the raft would rise alarmingly into the air then dip down as the stern followed over the crest of the wave .
29 The first British H-bomb test had been carried out in May that year and seven further tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific followed in the next year .
30 Looking neither to right nor left , the Emperor rose and walked firmly towards the door followed by the Empress .
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