Example sentences of "and following the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was promptly shattered by police arrests , and following the economic downturn of 1899 there was a brief fall-off in strike action and contact between intelligenty and workers declined . |
| 2 | And following the successful privatization of water supply , the early 1990s will see the privatization of electricity supply ; the CEGB will be broken up into two companies ( National Power and Powergen ) , from which the sale proceeds will dwarf the proceeds of previous privatizations . |
| 3 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |
| 4 | Stone felt a moment 's irritation , but with luck , and following the roundabout route that they had worked out the evening before , Chrissie should make any tail difficult to pick up on her . |
| 5 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 6 | The fishing nets and the postcards were no longer on display , and the woollens and the charming useless pottery had been packed away for the coming winter and the new season to follow-then they were out of the village , passing through a scattering of newer and less substantial houses and following the narrow lakeside road to Langstone . |
| 7 | But the caribou knew nothing of man 's activities and following the ancient trail they found their way barred . |
| 8 | Canadians were encouraged by Bush 's commitment to the environment and by his interest in Canada demonstrated so soon in his presidency and following the recent promulgation of the US-Canada free trade pact . |
| 9 | Instead , he put a rich range of clear rainbow colours on his palette , replacing the dirty ochre colours with light and more luminous chromium colours , with the addition of Veronese green , ultramarine and lacquer colours , and following the Impressionist recipe in not mixing these colours with anything except white or closely allied colours . |
| 10 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 11 | The major insurance companies receive about 10,000 claims each year , and following the severe drought in 1976 the number doubled . |
| 12 | In a sense dance music and the corporate soulboy mentality has destroyed a lot of that — the industry is now based around DJs , recycling hits , remixes and following the latest trend in dance music . ’ |
| 13 | During the same five year period , and following the disastrous Rent Act of 1974 over 400,000 private dwellings ceased to be available for rent . |
| 14 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 15 | It could certainly be argued that those values and attitudes — fairness , change without violence , deference for order — marked the discussions both preceding and following the 1944 Act . |