Example sentences of "following [noun sg] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day the Supreme Soviet 's Presidium appointed as acting RIB chair the former chair of the USSR State Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , who had been dismissed in August 1991 for alleged complicity in the coup . |
| 2 | On the following day the Supreme Council issued appeals to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov asking for " benevolent understanding " and recognition of Lithuania 's independence by the Soviet Union and for those appeals to be regarded as an official proposal to begin negotiations to settle all issues connected with the restoration of that independence . |
| 3 | The following day the entire market area was submerged , and the shops , built of mud-brick , melted like biscuits , leaving islands of rubble in a brown lake . |
| 4 | The following day the Senegalese government offered its apologies . |
| 5 | On July 22 Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg claimed that an Indo-Pakistan war was looming , and the following day the Indian Defence Minister Sharad Pawar said that India would retaliate if Pakistan continued to support armed rebels in Kashmir , a charge denied by the Pakistan government . |
| 6 | On the following day the little Englishman … had his violin brought to our rooms and played the whole afternoon , Wolfgang accompanying on his own . |
| 7 | On the following day the main opposition Democratic Party ( formed in December 1990 — see p. 37924 ) warned against further demonstrations , but blamed the government for the events of Feb. 20 . |
| 8 | On the following day the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People ( NAACP ) , the country 's oldest and largest civil rights movement , voted to oppose the confirmation because of the reactionary record of Thomas . |
| 9 | The following day the whole fence can be raked down from both sides to make it shed rain better , and the rakings piled on top . |
| 10 | The following morning the overnight rain had cleared away . |
| 11 | The following morning the local paper headlined ‘ Gays Lead Council a Lively Dance ’ , which made the mayor very angry indeed . |
| 12 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 13 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The following month the legal process smiled more kindly on Charlie Nicholas when a three year drink driving ban was shortened by a year allowing him to buy a new £11,000 Porsche . |
| 15 | In the following accompaniment the main body of the music is formed by cells comprising one long and two short notes , and its retrograde ( the same concept as Dallapiccola ) . |
| 16 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 17 | The following year the new President , a Presbyterian , had to repeat the injunction , this time directed at the gallery , insisting that there be no applause , either ‘ by our hands , and still less by our feet ’ . |
| 18 | In the following year the Labour Party gained control of the London County Council for the first time . |