Example sentences of "[noun] was followed by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 2 | The partial group received pre-exposure in which the light was followed by the reinforcer on half of the trials . |
| 3 | The new catchment boards ' first decade of river clearance was followed by the outbreak of war , during which Parliament empowered the boards to carry out even more extensive work at the request of county war agricultural executive committees . |
| 4 | The acquisition of Korea was followed by the 1911 Chinese revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty . |
| 5 | The announcement was followed by the collective resignation of the remaining nine Labour ministers . |
| 6 | The announcement was followed by the dissolution of the House of Representatives on Feb. 17 . |
| 7 | Economic-practicability and technological-feasibility arguments gained increasing public , media and federal attention as the energy crisis was followed by the economic recession such that the Clean Air Amendments were passed in August 1977 . |
| 8 | This tactic failed but the crisis was followed by the American withdrawal of IRBMs from Turkey . |
| 9 | The Lecture was followed by the Annual Meeting of Court , at which the Chancellor , in a novel ceremony , invited three members of Court to sign the Roll of Benefactors of the University in recognition of their outstanding support of the work of the University . |
| 10 | According to Murimuth the bestowal of titles on the six earls was followed by the dubbing of twenty-four new knights , and other nobles were rewarded at the same time . |
| 11 | The early primitive phase of frame shacks and converted buildings was followed by the appearance of rather grander stations in the post-confederation years of the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 12 | Maxwell never did join G-B , but Balcon 's departure was followed by the closure of the company 's larger Shepherd 's Bush Studio . |
| 13 | Eisenhower himself was dismayed and indignant when the Israeli attack on Egypt of 29 October was followed by the Anglo-French ultimatum ( whose phraseology could not conceal its anti-Egyptian purpose ) and as the determination to seize the canal by force became apparent . |
| 14 | This improved matters at first , but green algae was followed by the dreaded brown patches , which took over most of the tank . |
| 15 | The collapse of Japanese authority was followed by the emergence throughout Korea of ‘ people 's committees ’ ; they appeared at various levels — province , city , county and village . |
| 16 | The White Paper was followed by the Inner Urban Areas Act , 1978 . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind the strength of his views on " mere specialists " , we may surely see more than coincidence in the swiftness with which this final commitment was followed by the conversion to Schopenhauer . |
| 18 | Hack 's exhibition was followed by the The Last Man , an exhibition of paintings by Conchita Moore . |
| 19 | A second round of talks between the government and the ANC in early August was followed by the ANC 's announcement that it had decided to suspend its armed struggle ; all activities by the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , would cease . |
| 20 | To examine if the expression of mRNA was followed by the expression of the ICAM-1 molecule on the cell surface , cytokine treated and untreated HT-29 and CaCo-2 cells were assayed with two different monoclonal antibodies directed against ICAM-1 ( mAb 7F7 and mAb 84H10 ) . |
| 21 | This happened in the case of membership of the EEC where the signing of the various treaties was followed by the passing of the European Communities Act 1972 . |
| 22 | The slam of a car door was followed by the tap-tapping of high heels on the steps and veranda , and then the bell on the desk echoed loudly . |
| 23 | In religious matters the restoration of monarchy was followed by the decisive establishment of the power of the Church of England , and in constitutional questions Charles showed that he was much more resigned to the need to work with Parliament than either Charles I or Cromwell had been , but in colonial affairs there was no change of direction , though the new government may have been able to follow its policy with more continuity than its predecessor . |
| 24 | A similar way of life was followed by the Turkic-speaking peoples of the Sayan mountains known by two variants of the same clan name as Tuva and Tubalar ( or Tofalar ) . |
| 25 | In one case where an ignored warning was followed by the issue of a writ the proceedings resulted in an undertaking to desist . |
| 26 | After the Second World War , however , there was a more rapid advance : democratic regimes were re-established in Germany and Italy , and from the late 1970s in Portugal and Spain ; many colonial territories gained their independence , though they did not always develop subsequently in democratic forms ; and at the end of the 1980s the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe was followed by the restoration , or creation , of democratic political systems . |
| 27 | Jenny was followed by the friend she had asked if she could bring , James Barlow . |
| 28 | The rationalisation of Refining was followed by the combining of the Chemicals and Refining businesses . |
| 29 | A year later , Palladius was followed by the Northumbrian monk known today as Saint Patrick . |
| 30 | Analysts predicted that if the appointment of receivers was followed by the collapse of the whole Bond Corporation the Australian stock markets would suffer a setback . |