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

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1 However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq .
2 He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association .
3 Then we learned the hymns for mass the following morning .
4 On that second and final dinner of the conference — most guests were expected to disperse after lunch the following day — the company had lost much of the reserve that had been noticeable throughout the previous days .
5 After school the following afternoon , Alf Norris and I made a beeline to see the damage .
6 But it was n't till after school the following afternoon that I found time to go .
7 Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place .
8 ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day .
9 Hopkins was completely taken with Dolben , who was nearly four years his junior , and his private journal for confession the following year proves how absorbed he was in imperfectly suppressed erotic thoughts of him .
10 The first recorded Nonconformist Gothic chapel came in 1839 when Sir Charles Barry , who started work on the new Houses of Parliament the following year , designed a new church for Upper Brook Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester , although the interior design still had the pulpit as the central feature against the east wall and facing the congregation .
11 Twenty employees from Columbia Gas attended the seminar , and were presented with certificates of completion the following month .
12 Hammond did not go on the Irish expedition of 1649 , but remained on active service ; unlike Fairfax , he took part in the pre-emptive invasion of Scotland the following year .
13 They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands .
14 By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled :
15 As part of the life cycle of this pest is spent as eggs on the trunks and limbs of cherry and plum trees , a winter wash of these with tar oil ovicide will reduce the incidence of attacks the following year .
16 Wassailing was originally probably a Roman fertility rite to praise and encourage Pomona , the goddess of fruit trees , and it is still carried out in parts of the UK on Twelfth Night to ensure a good crop of apples the following year .
17 That was why Gergiev candidly expressed dissatisfaction with the state of affairs the following evening .
18 A survey of Central American women 's development programmes carried out by the Mexican government 's " Women 's Documentation Centre " in April 1982 produced from the Ministry of Education the following list of publications on women 's issues available in El Salvador : Vision Magazine ; Today At Home ; TV Guide ; Vanity ; Cosmopolitan ; Good Housekeeping .
19 The core tagset common to all TEI bases provides means of encoding with a reasonable degree of sophistication the following list of textual features :
20 He outlined a timetable for a transition to a multiparty system of government the following month [ see pp. 37445-46 ] .
21 These were further elaborated at the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe the following year .
22 By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown :
23 By way of illustration the following table shows what £1000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if annual rates of inflation over the period are as shown .
24 By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown .
25 By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown .
26 By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the years shown if the yearly rate of inflation over the period is as shown :
27 The Russian Supreme Soviet overturned the declaration of the state of emergency the following day , ordering instead a weapons blockade ( although the republic was already well-armed ) .
28 In Martin Peters Bauunternehmung G.m.b.H . v. Zuid Nederlandse Aannemers Vereniging ( Case 34/82 ) [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , 991 the Supreme Court of The Netherlands referred to the Court of Justice the following question :
29 In an attempt to defend his position he secured election to Parliament for Bletchingley the following year and immediately introduced a bill , which was lost in committee , for the easier supply of saltpetre .
30 William set sail late on 27 September 1066 , landing near Pevensey the following morning with little apparent opposition .
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