Example sentences of "following [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diocese of the eastern Angles was divided in the mid-670s on the illness of Bishop Bisi ( HE IV , 5 ) , the Mercian diocese likewise , probably on the deposition of Bishop Wynfrith and the appointment of Seaxwulf , abbot of Peterborough , as bishop , c. 674–5 ( HE IV , 6 ) , 17 and the territory of the northern Angles was partitioned in 678 following King Ecgfrith 's expulsion of Wilfrid , bishop of York ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 : HE IV , 12 ) . |
| 2 | The US Congress approved a bill on March 22 cutting off the US aid programme to Jordan , which had been placed under review in early February following King Hussein 's pro-Iraqi and anti-US speech [ see above ; p. 38024 ] . |
| 3 | If goods have not been delivered within 30 days following expiry of an agreed time limit or if there is not an agreed time limit within 60 says from the time the carrier took over the goods , this shall be taken as evidence of the loss of the goods . |
| 4 | In an assessment of the years following reorganisation , Alan Alexander examined each of the three major innovations in turn . |
| 5 | The decade following Kenneth McDougall 's death was bedeviled by further premature deaths of leading members of the BDDA . |
| 6 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 7 | And that was quite a good idea , because late at night following wedding parties and other , if anybody was behaving in an disorderly manner and people were returning home , they would always tell the policeman that they saw that a rowdy crowd were coming along . |
| 8 | Platelet aggregation in response to adrenaline showed striking changes when studied before and after stabilisation of poorly controlled diabetics ( Peterson et al , 1977 ) in that the lag phase following the addition of adrenaline was prolonged from a mean of 19 to 65 seconds following stabilisation . |
| 9 | The financial decision is taken , in the light of current market conditions , to issue stock redeemable in equal annual instalments of principal and interest over the ten years following completion of the bridge . |
| 10 | However , the emphasis has shifted in that the business is now controlled by the purchaser rather than the vendor and the earn out will be calculated over a period of perhaps several years following completion . |
| 11 | A council was called on the day following Edward 's arrival at which , in accordance with the late King 's wishes , Richard of Gloucester had been declared protector of the king and kingdom . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Mowbray , faced with the conflicts and uncertainties that had beleaguered the court during the weeks following Edward the Fourth 's death , had made plans to return with Anne and Joan to Framlingham until the tumult had died down . |
| 13 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 14 | The major changes to the plugs in the hours following transection of the vessel are that lytic areas initially seen at the edges of the plug also develop in its centre and the degranulated platelets resemble empty vesicles . |
| 15 | Corrupted to Pishpek in the 19th century following Kirghizia 's conquest by the Uzbek Khanate of Kokand , the name had been changed in 1926 in honour of Mikhail Frunze , a Bolshevik military commander and native of the city who had established Soviet rule in Central Asia . |
| 16 | It was the day following Ari 's first test and Leila , Ari and Roirbak had met in the canteen . |
| 17 | The funeral liturgy included a mass for the dead , but to take full advantage of the memorial rite , masses had also to be sung on the third , seventh and thirtieth days following burial and , to complete the calendar of commemoration , the ‘ obit ’ : a mass sung on the first anniversary of the death . |
| 18 | In the weeks following Lithuania 's March 11 unilateral declaration of independence from the Soviet Union [ see pp. 37299-300 ] , the Soviet authorities began to apply political , military and economic pressure on Lithuania to revoke it . |
| 19 | BASIC DATA Controlled by Spain since the 19th century , Western Sahara was divided between Morocco and Mauritania under the tripartite Madrid agreement of 1975 following Spain 's decision to withdraw from the territory ( see pp. 27575-77 ) . |
| 20 | Countries establishing diplomatic relations with Namibia in the months following independence on March 21 , 1990 , included Bulgaria , Colombia , Czechoslovakia , Denmark , Finland , France , India , Iran , Libya , Morocco , Poland , Tunisia and Venezuela . |
| 21 | In the six months following Stalingrad , Germany 's fortunes worsened still further as a result of the reversals in the east , the allied landing in Sicily and Calabria , and the fall of the Mussolini regime in Italy . |
| 22 | In the days following Ershad 's downfall pressure mounted for him to be put on trial . |
| 23 | In few periods in early Ottoman history can that need have been felt more strongly than in the years following Ankara . |
| 24 | Once the offer document is posted , a takeover offer can become unconditional within four weeks ( the first closing date for the offer is 21 days following posting of the offer document ) ; however , the compulsory sale procedure can extend the timetable for obtaining 100 per cent control to up to six months depending on how quickly acceptances of the offer are received . |
| 25 | The workshop session following Mr Leitch 's presentation showed just what an inexact science publishing is , as groups of publishers and booksellers produced substantially different results after being asked to prepare a sales and profitability forecast of a new Routledge business book . |
| 26 | The missile programme had been initiated jointly with Egypt in 1982 following Argentina 's defeat by the United Kingdom in the Falklands war , and had been financed partly by Iraq . |
| 27 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 29 | The New Zealand ‘ open ’ adoption approach has not used research to follow up the parties involved beyond the initial years following placement , and the children involved in the arrangement are yet to be interviewed . |
| 30 | An agreement to resume diplomatic relations with Syria after a 30-month break was announced on Jan. 9 , 1989 ( for severance of relations in July 1987 following Hassan 's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister see pp. 34832-33 ) . |