Example sentences of "were followed by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be a coincidence that the Otago Rugby Union , of which Dowling is a committee member and former chairman , actually requested that the NZRFU cancel the July-August tour of South Africa because of the drug scandals that had occurred — and which were followed by a variety of other allegations and proof of steroid use in the Republic . |
| 2 | The years in Italy were followed by a couple of years in France , where his father was in charge of the BTA 's Paris office , but rather than go to school in France , Patrick was sent to Dulwich College . |
| 3 | Open classes by Margaret Charlwood and Rosemary Gould were followed by a ploughman 's lunch and a video and film display featuring Medau pat and present . |
| 4 | More cheers were followed by a rendering of the National Anthem from the regimental band . |
| 5 | I have come to the conclusion that the important points here are that ( i ) since there was no danger at this time in registering a protest , ( ii ) the final payments were made without any qualification , and ( iii ) were followed by a delay until July 31 , 1975 , before the owners put forward their claim , the correct inference to draw , taking an objective view of the facts , is that the action and inaction of the owners can only be regarded as an affirmation of the variation in June , 1973 , of the terms of the original contract by the agreement to pay the additional 10 per cent . |
| 6 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Her scream , the crash of the chair , and his shouts of pain were followed by a moment 's silence , and then by the ringing of an alarm . |
| 8 | His words were followed by a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen . |
| 9 | Bases of the 14th Army had come under attack from civilians looking for weapons , and initial assurances that the Army would remain neutral were followed by a statement issued on March 17 that , should war in the region become a reality , the Army would act to defend itself . |
| 10 | We were followed by a family — mother , father and daughter . |
| 11 | In Scotland , a survey and plan for the Lothians ( 1966 ) was followed by a similar study for Grangemouth-Falkirk ( 1968 ) ; expansion plans for the Central Borders ( 1968 ) and Tayside ( 1970 ) were followed by a strategy for South-west Scotland ( also 1970 ) and a West-central Scotland Plan ( 1974 ) . |
| 12 | The arrests of Islamic fundamentalists in April 1989 ( see p. 36603 ) were followed by a security clampdown in mid-May at the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan which included a ban on open-air prayer meetings outside mosques in many potential trouble spots including slum areas of Cairo and fundamentalist strongholds in Upper Egypt . |
| 13 | The explosions in March and April of 1969 at an electricity sub station in Castlereagh and at the Silent Valley reservoir in the Mournes were followed by an explosion at an electricity sub-station over the border in County Donegal . |
| 14 | Poor polls , one showing Labour ahead by six points , were followed by an attack by a former chancellor , Nigel Lawson , who questioned the government 's ability to govern . |
| 15 | Emphasizing each word as though it were followed by an exclamation mark , he announced , grinning : ‘ Here — is — Zamoyski ! ’ |
| 16 | According to some reports the air attacks were followed by an artillery barrage from Israeli and South Lebanese Army ( SLA ) forces positioned in Israeli 's " security zone " . |