Example sentences of "the [noun sg] follow the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the euphoria following the successful birth , and the tea- and sandwich-making with Mrs Chalk afterwards , she 'd gone quietly along with everyone 's air of respectful gratitude for Guy , who 'd saved the day , whisked Lucy to hospital , kept everyone calm and optimistic , loomed in the background like a rock of dependable strength . |
| 2 | The trial follows the rapid growth of BT 's video conferencing operations which allow subscribers to replace expensive business travel and face to face meetings with a television link . |
| 3 | Mr. J.G.S. Gammell is to retire from the Board following the Annual General Meeting after 36 years of service . |
| 4 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 5 | The referendum followed the Supreme Court ruling on May 19 that the 1987 elections to the People 's Assembly had been unconstitutional [ see p. 37472 ] . |
| 6 | The decision followed the recent approval of a Places of Worship ( Special Provisions ) Bill [ see pp. 38391 ; 38438 ] . |
| 7 | The decision follows the Scottish court ruling which banned the BBC from broadcasting tape recordings of interviews with nine children caught up in the scandal . |
| 8 | During 1992/93 the University found the need to tackle the issues again , to remove non-functioning bodies from the instruments of government , to streamline various decision-making processes , to redefine membership of the University following the major changes in academic staff tenure , to change the composition of the academic Council and , by no means least , remove gender-specific language . |
| 9 | Beyond the lochan the route follows the wide forest road . |
| 10 | From there the route follows the southern part of the High Street Range . |
| 11 | The course follows the American precedent , with two and a half days each week allocated to in-house tuition , augmented by home study , and governed by an acronym which becomes fixed in the minds of all students : DPR , or , Daily Practise Routines . |
| 12 | Rolling back the pay-off via decision 2a , the EV following the initial development project is £42k . |
| 13 | Rolling back the pay-off via decision 2a , the EV following the initial development project is £42k . |
| 14 | The deal follows the recent announcement of the production of a pure form of the hormone by researchers from the institute , using genetic engineering techniques . |
| 15 | On Nov. 27 , two days after the reappointment of Simon Achidi Achu as Prime Minister , a new Cabinet was named in an apparent attempt to appease the opposition following the disputed victory of President Paul Biya in the October presidential poll [ see p. 39130 ] . |
| 16 | Where the terrain demanded , as under Velebit , the roads left the coast to follow the interior polja behind the coastal ranges . |
| 17 | From the early 1920s Chiang devoted much of his attention to suppressing his communist rivals rather than forming a united front with them to resist the Japanese , but they established a strong base in the northwest following the Long March of 1934 . |
| 18 | The languages of earth — English , Italian , Hindustani and Chinese particularly — were known in some variation everywhere , though it seemed the Autarch — who had come to power in the confusion following the failed Reconciliation — favoured English , which was the preferred linguistic currency almost everywhere now . |
| 19 | Kings are probably the most handsome of all the penguins : the plumage follows the general pattern of white below and dark above , but the most outstanding features are the golden/orange ‘ ear-patches ’ extending to the upper breast . |
| 20 | The revision follows the increasing emphasis placed by users of financial statements in many countries on historical cash flow information as an indicator of an enterprise 's performance and future sources and uses of cash . |
| 21 | This could not be handled via temporary exception from part of the National Curriculum , referred to earlier ( see p. 118 ) , because a ‘ general direction ’ can only be issued if the head teacher considers that it is inappropriate for the child to follow the National Curriculum and in his opinion that situation is likely to change within six months . |
| 22 | The move followed the Polish government 's July restoration of diplomatic relations with the Vatican [ see p. 36830 ] . |
| 23 | The move follows the recent series of leaks to the media demonstrating that loyalist terrorists had access to confidential security force files and photographs on suspected republican activists . |
| 24 | The move follows the severe financial crisis that Nobel suffered in 1991 , caused by the near-collapse of its financial subsidiary , Gamlestaden . |
| 25 | However , there was a general agreement between the two sides on the need to follow the so-called " twin-track approach " " to a Middle East settlement , aimed at Israel opening talks with Arab countries on the one hand and with Palestinians on the other . |
| 26 | In the period following the Great Fire of London in 1666 several companies were floated , but the real expansion came with the increase in urbanisation of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | As in the period following the Black Death in the fourteenth century , the acute shortage of labour led to a tightening of feudal restrictions on the peasantry . |
| 28 | The period following the parliamentary victory saw a number of proposals for the demolition or conversion to secular use of the English cathedrals . |
| 29 | The decade following the Crimean War saw the most dramatic social and institutional upheaval that the Empire had ever undergone . |
| 30 | Interferometers can be used , though the decay of the sample following the generating flash means that quite elaborate multiple interferograms must be recorded under computer control . |