Example sentences of "follow [adv] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Go to blazes ! ’ screamed the Trunchbull and she marched off the platform followed closely by the cook .
2 On the evening you then had perhaps 100 or more guests altogether sitting down to a splendid meal followed afterwards by an entertainment organised by some of the men of the congregation .
3 This was followed eventually by the adoption by congress , as a whole , of a concurrent budget resolution including reconciliation instructions requiring the authorizing committees to cut approximately $36 billion from the financial year 1982 budget .
4 This was followed swiftly by the news that Alain Lequeux , the rider of the runner-up , Behera , had lodged an objection against the winner for interference a furlong and a half from the finish of an exceptionally rough race .
5 That opportunity squandered was followed swiftly by the briefings for yesterday 's press to the effect that Delphic Douglas was in fact leaving open the door for an executive ratification of the original , unamended treaty irrespective of whatever parliament may decide .
6 According to Hesiod the age of idle luxury was followed successively by an age of heroes , a silver age , an age of bronze , and finally by the present iron age .
7 There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance .
8 ‘ MIDDLE OF The Road ’ is Denim 's first single and will be followed shortly by the album ‘ Back In Denim ’ .
9 One of Sue Lawley 's most expressive devices in Desert Island Discs is to punctuate any particularly emotive testimony with a tremulous moment 's pause , followed smartly by a record request .
10 Two years later , the Philadelphia Stock Exchange ( PHLX ) also began to trade share options , and the next wave was in 1982 when CBoT introduced options on US T-bond futures and PHLX introduced options on dollar denominated currencies , followed smartly by the CME with options on its stock index future and on currency futures .
11 2 This is followed rapidly by a stamp to the upper thigh .
12 The scene where Susan runs into Ian , having been tapped on the shoulder by an unseen hand ( in truth that of AFM Michael Ferguson , later , too , to become a Doctor Who Director ) , is followed directly by a sequence in the TARDIS with all four time-travellers .
13 The sky thundered , followed quickly by a crack of lightning that lit up the whole sky .
14 It was Barnsley 's first effort on target but was followed quickly by a second , a header from Andy Savile that would have won the match had Tommy Wright not produced a topdrawer reflex diving save .
15 It was hoped that soon the lines to the Don basin and Nizhnii Novgorod would be electrified , followed quickly by the whole of the Siberian network .
16 In pursuance of this last , they waited until the first yells and screams sounded from the unhappy village , followed quickly by the glow of fire .
17 This call to worship is followed quickly by the call to be thankful : ‘ Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him . ’
18 Two major defeats in ten years , followed now by the capture of the king , led to rebellion in Normandy and civil troubles in Paris which were to end in violence .
19 A ‘ Slaven for Scotland ’ number was followed immediately by the striker 's selection for Ireland ; the ‘ Pears for Sweden ’ shirt led inevitably to the goalie missing his England B call up with a fractured cheek bone .
20 In 1471 Warwick failed to turn the duchy servants against Edward IV and in 1483 Hastings ' death was followed immediately by the transfer of the royal connection to his successor in office .
21 In 1471 Warwick failed to turn the duchy servants against Edward IV and in 1483 Hastings ' death was followed immediately by the transfer of the royal connection to his successor in office .
22 His departure was , understandably , followed immediately by the surrender of the town , which Edward proceeded to turn into an English base .
23 On the basis that ‘ the bomber will always get through ’ officials within Whitehall made alarmist predictions that the declaration of war with Germany would be followed immediately by the devastation of cities , epidemics , disruption of food supplies , panic among the civilian population , the breakdown of essential services , and so on .
24 A precarious failure at 50 feet was followed immediately by an abseil inspection , then a week later by the ascent itself .
25 Her mother ran upstairs , followed closely by a policewoman who had n't left her side for a moment since they 'd arrived .
26 Three body styles — hatchback , coupe and saloon — will be imported , although the hatch will remain the volume seller , followed closely by the coupe , the only body fitted with the G40 engine .
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