Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] follow by [art] " in BNC.

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1 His words were followed by a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen .
2 The death of his father Edgar was followed by a dispute between the magnates over whether Æthelred , still a child , or his older half-brother Edward , should succeed .
3 Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth .
4 The hymn was followed by a passage from the New Testament , another hymn from the choir and some simple prayers .
5 The ceremony was followed by a series of precise mimes , dances and songs by 400 children and kung fu gymnasts , merging traditional music and western beat .
6 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 .
7 It may aid in monitoring therapy ; in our patient the institution of warfarin therapy was followed by a striking reduction in the frequency of emboli .
8 The partial group received pre-exposure in which the light was followed by the reinforcer on half of the trials .
9 The wedding was followed by a reception in the beautiful setting of the Montgreenan Mansion House Hotel , followed by a two week honeymoon in the Dordogne region of France .
10 The Ummayads were followed by the Abbassids who sent a series of governors of Turkish origin from their capital in Baghdad .
11 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 .
12 Marjanov 's early training as a machine-fitter was followed by a period of study with Megert at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf , where the artist now lives and works in the Ratherstrasse artists ' collective .
13 The flying test was followed by an intensive oral examination on technical details .
14 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 .
15 The acquisition of Korea was followed by the 1911 Chinese revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty .
16 In a subsequent experiment , carried out only among right handers , the warning stimulus was followed by a verbal stimulus in one condition and by pictures of faces in other conditions .
17 The withdrawal of the pound and the lira from the ERM was followed by a " war of words " between the UK and Germany over the role in particular of the Bundesbank .
18 The ace of diamonds and another club ruff were followed by a second heart ruff in dummy , leaving the following position :
19 The day began with lively classes given by Jean Parmiter and Joan Gatfield ; these classes were followed by a tasty Ploughman 's lunch when members were joined by our President , Lady Braithwaite and her husband , Sir Franklin .
20 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 " .
21 The announcement was followed by the collective resignation of the remaining nine Labour ministers .
22 The announcement was followed by the dissolution of the House of Representatives on Feb. 17 .
23 The evening came to a resounding crescendo when a standing ovation was followed by an explosive rendition of Rockin' All Over The World .
24 Eoin Jess broke his ankle in the first meeting of the clubs and the cup draw was followed by a damaging share of the points between Aberdeen and Falkirk at Pittodrie in the Premier Division championship .
25 Islamey was followed by a rather quirky performance of Beethoven 's Third Piano Concerto , in which the soloist was the 22-year-old Olli Mustonen , a compatriot of the conductor .
26 His First from Cambridge was followed by a short career in the Civil Service , commercial experience with IBM , and work with another search firm before he joined John Stork and met and worked with Saxton .
27 This creative period was followed by an exploitive period in which many theoretical physicists moved in to apply the new mechanics to a host of significant problems .
28 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 .
29 This tactic failed but the crisis was followed by the American withdrawal of IRBMs from Turkey .
30 This article was followed by a reply from BC 's finance director , in which he argued for the appropriateness of the Board 's accounting policies .
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