Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] following the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was despite the fact that the media had reacted in support of the government and the Constitution during the days following the attempted coup . |
| 2 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 3 | The Syrian stance during the weeks following the invasion effectively confirmed the country 's return to mainstream regional politics and led to the formation of a new close alignment between Syria and Egypt [ for recent improvement in Egyptian-Syrian relations see pp. 37471 ; 37626 ] . |
| 4 | Other peaks came during the months following the prohibited times of Advent and Lent . |
| 5 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 6 | A major responsibility , particularly in the hours following the blast , was to help reduce panic by providing as much information as possible concerning the dead and injured , and those who were missing or left homeless . |
| 7 | In the decades following the death of Richard Wilson in 1782 , the beauties of the Principality were re-discovered by a new generation of artists including J. Inigo Richards , Anthony Devis , J. C. Ibbetson , Copley Fielding , William Daniell and David Cox . |
| 8 | In the days following the attempt , sources said that some of those detained also were killed . |
| 9 | Mr Zeman was sharply attacked in the official news media in the days following the publication of his views , which he followed up with an article in the most important samizdat newspaper , Lidove Noviny . |
| 10 | In the days following the Frolic , life dropped into a dull routine which Jess welcomed . |
| 11 | It seemed that in the days following the Earl 's death , his children displayed a hardness that even surprised me . |
| 12 | In the days following the coup soldiers opened fire on hundreds of civilians in different sectors of Port-au-Prince , including Cité Soleil and Lamentin 54 , and in other parts of the country , leaving hundreds head and wounded . |
| 13 | In the days following the crash controversy arose over the Indian authorities ' refusal to allow European investigators access to either the " black box " cockpit voice recordings or the digital flight recorder . |
| 14 | The Tokyo stock market staged a limited recovery in the days following the discovery of the scandal , but trade remained generally at much lower levels than in recent years as the depression which had gripped the market since the start of 1989 continued its course . |
| 15 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 16 | But it ca n't be denied that in the days following the concert — which was seen by one-and-a-half billion people all over the world groups watched their LPs , new and old , surge healthily up the charts , taking their bank balances to new heights . |
| 17 | The verbal instructions are important — they will act as reminders in the days following the lesson and help the pupil to inhibit his natural tendency to slip back into the old habits . |
| 18 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 19 | In the months following the end of the civil war , parliament 's New Model Army , which contained large numbers of soldiers who had rejected the Presbyterian establishment in favour of greater religious toleration , grew steadily more and more disenchanted with its masters . |
| 20 | At times , in the months following the return from Germany , he had actively hated it and all the people who did belong . |
| 21 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 22 | The relative stability in the months following the purported declaration of independence back in May last year was very welcome and we must do all that we can to re-establish it , but sheer names on pieces of paper will not do so . |
| 23 | As part of the disestablishment of the CPCz , the matrix of party organizations in the economic , political , social and security spheres was dissolved in the months following the November revolution . |
| 24 | In the months following the ND election victory in April 1990 there was a boom in the Greek stock market , which was hailed as one of the world 's most promising " emerging markets " . |
| 25 | Such was the message put across by Francoist propaganda in the months following the end of hostilities . |
| 26 | In the centuries following the Conquest there gradually developed separate styles of penmanship for the two main purposes for which calligraphy was employed . |
| 27 | In the centuries following the Arab conquest , the dominant sect was of course Sunni . ) |
| 28 | In the weeks following the dinner Lutyens swiftly drew up an elaborate set of plans . |
| 29 | In the weeks following the engagement she had grown in confidence and self-assurance , her sense of humour frequently bubbling to the surface . |
| 30 | Unlike England , where one is told simply that the case will be heard sometime in the weeks following the notified date , the case in Scotland will actually proceed on the date notified . |