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

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1 Inevitably there would follow a contraction of activity in Dept .
2 There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use .
3 A pitcher can spin a baseball to make it follow a trajectory in any direction .
4 There would then follow a quantity of directives relating most especially to handicrafts — knitting , crocheting , macramé — skills Fru Møller had studiously avoided , let alone perfected .
5 The swordfish , like the sailfish , will follow a school of fish for a considerable distance before it decides to attack .
6 A track on the left passes under a railway viaduct , where the temptation to visit the ravine of White Kirk directly ahead should be resisted until the return journey ; instead , turn right to join and follow a wall along the fellside and , when it turns down , cross the gently rising limestone plateau ahead .
7 Under the National Curriculum all primary and secondary age pupils will follow a course of PE .
8 The only group at any real risk from a flu epidemic are the elderly , of which there are an increasing number these days , and the danger comes primarily from the development of secondary infections which can easily follow a dose of flu .
9 In others , an acute episode of constipation may follow a change in diet or environment , a febrile illness , a period of dehydration , or bed rest .
10 But the answer to these fundamental questions must follow a review of the law as understood at present , which I would express in the following propositions .
11 Can these changes stem from enlightened rethinking of principles or must they follow a collapse of the EEC and the present economy ?
12 In the ‘ real process ’ of policy implementation , local authorities may follow a pattern of action drawing on several of the types sketched here .
13 If anything disturbed that natural covering , the vegetation would follow a pattern of development that led through a series of recognizable stages to the mature climax once again :
14 There may follow a period of spontaneous singing in tongues by the congregation , after which the whole assembly might lapse into a profound corporate silence and a still waiting upon God .
15 Nor did it follow a period of economic and demographic stagnation .
16 Bacci did n't follow a note of the ‘ Primavera ’ sonata .
17 ‘ Mind you , I would n't follow a director to the devil .
18 Dare you follow a lion in his retreats ?
19 Who else would follow a lump of iron ore from Mount Newman in Western Australia all the way to a Japanese smelter and on to the Nissan showrooms in California ?
20 When there is an interest rate change , we can either follow a move in base rates initiated by the clearing banks or we can choose to anticipate a move that they might make on the rates prevailing in the interbank market . ’
21 The only obligations to transfer economic benefits which should not be taken into account are those which would not be considered in accordance with the going concern concept , that is , those which would only arise on the insolvency of the issuer and , where the issuer is expected to be able to comply with covenants on loan and similar agreements , those which would follow a breach of those covenants .
22 The Xtra Conference proper takes place in the autumn and will follow a summer of intensive market research by X/Open and a yet-to-be-named market research company .
23 The developer may follow a number of different avenues in his pursuit for suitable land .
24 Thus the removal of H 2 in the large gut may follow a number of pathways .
25 The talk will immediately follow a screening of Tavernier 's most recent box office hit These Foolish Things at :
26 Its tasks include finding out how the cladding around the nuclear fuel rods deforms at the high temperatures that might follow a loss of cooling water .
27 The vote will follow a debate on the issue which has lastest 20 years , but the debate itself is the work of the devil , according to a vicar from Cheltenham .
28 As children , we were not allowed to go there because of the risk of attack from a tiger or leopard , but sometimes , I would follow a group of hunters to trap sambar , muntjac or wild boar .
29 The present research project will be concerned specifically with second language learning , and will follow a group of undergraduate learners od French throughout the course of their university studies .
30 In a rare prosecution following an incident on the field during a Football League game , Salisbury Crown Court was told the tussle followed a clearance from defence .
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