Example sentences of "follow [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections should then follow for a constituent assembly which would draft a constitution . |
| 2 | This we may now follow in a text of Scaevola . |
| 3 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal held that a manslaughter verdict would not necessarily follow from a conviction for wilful neglect : |
| 5 | An application for a care or supervision order will frequently follow upon an emergency protection order . |
| 6 | A flat-faced , slit-eyed courier smiles from her yellow moon face and says the baggage will follow on a lorry . |
| 7 | George beckoned and I followed through a door into the heat of the rear section of the engines , the section containing among other things the boiler which provided steam to heat the whole train . |
| 8 | The unit could take some credit then for the change in the supplementary benefit adjudication regulations that followed as a result . |
| 9 | Like many right hon. and hon. Members in all parts of the House , I followed with a mixture of admiration and exasperation Lord Carrington 's attempts to negotiate a proper ceasefire , but watched with mounting anger the callous disregard for life and property cynically displayed by the federal forces . |
| 10 | Alan followed with a talk on tax and wills . ’ |
| 11 | T. Marsh ( National Power ) followed with a lecture entitled Sulphur and nitrogen chemistry and regional scale air pollution , paying particular attention to how spatial and temporal aspects influence the transformation processes and the ultimate fate of atmospheric pollutants . |
| 12 | Three putts cost her a stroke at the 18th , which she followed with an eagle three at the 430-yard first when her seven-iron second finished only two feet from the hole . |
| 13 | Peter followed from a distance and went into the Court Guard of the High Priest 's house . |
| 14 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 15 | As the robber ran into and along the road , I followed at a distance of about 10 yards , keeping to the pavement so that the line of parked cars stood between us . |
| 16 | I followed at a distance . |
| 17 | After a moment 's hesitation Jacques Devraux followed at a distance with his trackers . |
| 18 | The 58 guests in the vessel 's grand royal dining room tucked into a menu of terrine de saumon ( salmon mousse ) followed by a couronne de perdreau souveroff ( crown of partridge ) , legumes panaches , ( mixed vegetables ) pommes croquettes salade ( salad of sliced potatoes ) . |
| 19 | Mass was celebrated on Saturday morning in the Great Hall by Bishop Walmsley followed by a welcome from Middlesbrough Diocesan President , Mrs Maureen Nelson . |
| 20 | As soon as these arrangements had been made , manufacture of engines began , the first one being a pumping engine for Bloomfield Colliery in Staffordshire followed by a blowing engine for blast furnaces at John Wilkinson 's iron works at New Willey Staffs . |
| 21 | Any showers will soon clear to leave a fine evening followed by a cold and clear night with light winds . |
| 22 | Apart from that , it 's only used in the beginnings of words , and the , the one clear rule is that s followed by a t is printed in this way . |
| 23 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 24 | Mr followed by a Mrs . |
| 25 | A Mrs followed by a Mrs . |
| 26 | According to T-G analysis , it is a sentence ( S ) that consists of a noun phrase ( NP ) followed by a verb phrase ( VP ) ; in turn , the NP consists of a determiner ( T ) and a noun ( N ) ; the VP consists of a transitive verb ( Vt ) and a noun phrase ( NP ) and this last NP consists of a determiner and a noun . |
| 27 | Consequently , a TAB ( X , Y ) followed by a TAB(X) will give unpredictable ( at first glance ) results . |
| 28 | A week of expert talks , meetings and practical visits , based on the Institute of Sociology in the Kuskovo Palace complex in Moscow followed by a weekend in Leningrad sight-seeing and socialising included at £445 full board 19–30th March . |
| 29 | It must be acknowledged there was between nineteen seventy nine and nineteen eighty four a slump in the ship building industry followed by a slump in world sea-borne trade . |
| 30 | Often when people have enquired about my subject area , my reply is greeted with a polite , " Oh ! " followed by a change of conversation . |