Example sentences of "had been follow by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been followed by a motion from Bruce Kent , chair of CND , to reduce Britain 's defence spending to the European average of Nato countries . |
| 2 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 3 | Early departure from the Zimmerman pension had been followed by abandonment of the Richter persona , a week 's reconnaissance , and the eventual recruitment of a couple of new agents . |
| 4 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 5 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 6 | A few days before he was killed , José Miguel Mérida Escobar had reported to the Office of the Human Rights Procurator that , since the findings of his report became publicly known , he had been followed by unidentified armed men . |
| 7 | The smile of recognition and welcome for Duncan had been followed by a fit of coughing . |
| 8 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 had been followed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ; the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1894 were accompanied by further discussions of local government reform . |
| 9 | On this point THE HOME SECRETARY said that there was no reliable evidence that the abolition of the death penalty in foreign countries had been followed by a significant increase in the number of murders . |
| 10 | By the time that the present case had reached the Court of Appeal , as many as 100 injunctions had been granted by judges of the Chancery Division , following the approach of Mervyn Davies J. By that time , too , the decision of the European Court of Justice in the Torfaen case had been followed by its decisions in the Conforama and Marchandise cases ; and it was the contention of the council that the approach of the court in the former case , upon which Wickes relied , had been tacitly abandoned by the court in the latter two cases . |
| 11 | By that time , the Torfaen case had been followed by the Conforama and Marchandise decisions . |
| 12 | The petition had been followed by a receiving order . |
| 13 | The wartime alliance had been followed by an occasionally hot ‘ cold war ’ and then , from the 1950s onwards , by a cautious search for a limited modus vivendi . |
| 14 | In a sense , this was a line which had been followed by John Hunter ; but his heirs in Britain had not pursued it , partly because of a national aversion to the vivisection which seemed a necessary part of it and partly because it seemed materialistic . |
| 15 | If Forgive us our … had been followed by sins ( as it is in some modern versions of the Lord 's Prayer ) , inappropriate contextual information could slow down word identification if used too early . |
| 16 | She had been followed by McGee , Lord Cumbermound , the Bishop , the Archdeacon and Wheeler . |
| 17 | An offer last August of 3% for 12 months had been followed by a lengthy period when voluntary severance had been negotiated with the Bank . |
| 18 | Repeated statements to this effect at previous summits had been followed by inaction and the continuation of intra-community trade barriers . |
| 19 | The visit of South African President F. W. de Klerk to Nigeria in April had been followed by the establishment of trade or diplomatic relations with a number of African countries including Côte d'Ivoire , Djibouti , Kenya and Zambia [ see pp. 38851 ; 38897 ] . |
| 20 | The visit of South African President F. W. de Klerk to Nigeria in April had been followed by the establishment of trade or diplomatic relations with a number of African countries including Côte d'Ivoire , Djibouti , Kenya and Zambia [ see pp. 38851 ; 38897 ] . |
| 21 | Allegations by Roman Catholic bishops and some non-governmental organizations had been followed by reports of the murder of UN employees in September and October [ see pp. 39132 ; 39181 ] . |
| 22 | Her every move had been followed by jaundiced and world-weary senior politicians ; she had noticed a gleam of lust in the good eye of a privy Councillor , and Peter Riddell of The Times had made a note of her name . |
| 23 | The first was the experience of what had happened after World War I. The government 's retreat from many areas of economic life had been followed by a prolonged depression . |
| 24 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 25 | By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers |
| 26 | Judge John Slack was told the hunt had been followed by members of the League Against Cruel Sports . |
| 27 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates the man had been followed by a member of staff and had been seen to drop a bag containing the jeans . |