Example sentences of "[noun sg] followed [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Connery came to Scotland to receive the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh , one of those civic honours which usually passes in a bit of ceremony followed by a bit of dinner .
2 Each time the effect is the same ; confusion followed by a peering at familiar things , then an inventory to work out what went this time .
3 She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her .
4 ‘ Every car that comes along the line is different — a station wagon followed by a sports car followed by an export model .
5 Such infusion of caerulein in chronic pancreatic fistula rats caused a marked increase in protein output from basal secretion of 10 mg/30 minutes to 40 mg/30 minutes in the first hour of infusion followed by a decline in protein output to 15–20 mg/30 minutes in the following hours of the experiment .
6 The affricates and are , phonetically , composed of a plosive followed by a fricative , as explained in Chapter 6 .
7 This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table .
8 Prospective buyers might , therefore , consider shortlisting and inviting representatives from each different company chosen to an afternoon tea followed by a quiz session .
9 She craved a fairytale wedding followed by a home bursting with children .
10 If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ?
11 Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions .
12 A conversation is built from pairs of transactions , each pair being a statement or question followed by a response to it .
13 A fourth kind of two-part question consists of a book-work question followed by a problem .
14 After its dignified circling of the house and the conservatory followed by a dive into a tunnel of laburnum and lilac , the path became meaner , more secret .
15 Each consisted of an hour 's physical exercise followed by an hour 's discussion .
16 Instead , the puritans advocated a regular routine of six days of work followed by a day of rest on the Sabbath , the famous Nonconformist ethic .
17 In the first half of each act we have a seascape followed by a variety of genre scenes interspersed with conversations , arguments , quarrels .
18 It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection .
19 The daily schedule of an 8.30 press conference followed by a flight , a bus , a walkabout , a lunch with regional media chiefs , a factory visit , a couple of interviews , a speech and another flight has often meant shorter working hours than a parliamentary day .
20 After my health check I opted to use the fully equipped gym for my first workout followed by a cycle ride to the local village and back .
21 You can drive to the lake , but we recommend you take the footpath running alongside a stream followed by a boat trip on the lake itself .
22 Our Lord 's ministry was styled along the lines of the rabbinic model , with the itinerant teacher followed by a group of disciples who learned by listening , questioning and working under supervision .
23 The reaction was stopped by adding 80 µl 2 M perchloric acid followed by an incubation at 37°C for 30 minutes .
24 But on the third night we heard someone trying to get into our room followed by a gunshot .
25 The interviewer also needs to ensure that the potential expatriates have a clear idea of their careers and how an overseas posting followed by a return to work in the UK will aid their career paths .
26 M=&12345678 The string indirection operator ( $ ) writes a string followed by a carriage-return ( & od ) into memory starting at the specified address .
27 This would write the string followed by a carriage-return and a line-feed to the file .
28 Strings are stored in a data file as the ASCII bytes of the string followed by a carriage-return .
29 Fixed strings are stored as the characters of the string followed by a carriage return ( & 0d ) .
30 A church service followed by an afternoon and evening of sports , feasting and the entertaining of friends and relations would provide an enjoyable time for all ages .
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