Example sentences of "of [noun sg] following the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting on the decade of change following the 1971 Census , the CES found : first , in those areas under consideration , there has been a population decline of 20 per cent , whereas the population at large has grown . |
| 2 | Furthermore , at a time of heart-searching following the commercial difficulties of the Anglo-French Concorde project , and with de Gaulle no longer in power , the French space science community had difficulty in persuading the politicians of the need for France to go it alone in space . |
| 3 | If it is not changed , the set of Issue following the current set will be displayed . |
| 4 | This is commonly blamed on a prolonged drought during the amelioration of climate following the last glaciation . |
| 5 | whose influence on penal reform in the postwar period was outstanding , and he stood firm in the face of some ministerial pressure in the difficult period of unrest following the recent Dartmoor mutiny . |
| 6 | rCBF was measured by recording the distribution of radioactivity following the intravenous injection of 15 O-labelled water ( H 2 15 O ) with the CTI 953B PET scanner ( CTI Inc. , Knoxville , TN , USA ) . |
| 7 | Large-scale crustal shortening is often present in intercontinental collision orogens and this may be accommodated by folding ( Figs 3.17 , 3.18 ) , or by the limited subduction of continental crust during the initial phase of collision following the previous episode of steady-state subduction . |
| 8 | This is all the more surprising in view of the fact that the northern king , Aldfrith , was now confined largely north of the Humber , the Northumbrians preoccupied with their own problems of reconstruction following the Pictish victory at Nechtanesmere in 685 and seemingly unable even to take possession of Lindsey again . |
| 9 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 10 | Showing no signs of strain following the previous day 's announcement , he opened Thames Water 's new testing laboratory in London 's Docklands . |
| 11 | If it is not changed , the set of Client following the current set will be displayed . |
| 12 | The code applied to all Anglo gold and coal mines and was the result of four years of negotiation following the 1987 miners ' strike [ see pp. 35622-23 ] . |