verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come/follow close on the heels of sth
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Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation.
consequences follow (= happen )
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Once the decision has been made, consequences follow.
devoted following
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The journal had a devoted following of around 1,000 subscribers.
follow a code
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When children are near water, it’s important to follow a basic safety code.
follow a curriculum (= study the subjects that are in a curriculum )
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Five-year-olds now follow the National Curriculum.
follow a diet (= only eat certain types of food )
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You will feel better if you follow a low-fat diet.
follow a path
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We followed a path through the trees.
follow a pattern
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Her headaches did not seem to follow any particular pattern.
follow a precedent
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Now he is following a precedent set by military leaders around the world.
follow a procedure
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It’s important that you always follow the correct procedure.
follow a route
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Are we following the right route?
follow a tip
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To keep your bike in good condition, follow these simple tips.
follow a tradition (= do what has been done before )
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He followed the family tradition and became a doctor.
follow a trend
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Divorce rates in Scotland are following the general trend.
follow an occupation formal (= do one )
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The third son followed his father’s occupation.
follow convention (= do what is accepted and normal )
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If everyone followed convention, the world would be a boring place.
follow directions
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You can't get lost if you follow my directions.
follow football (= be interested in football )
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Bob follows football and goes to as many matches as he can.
follow orders/carry out orders (= obey them )
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The men argued that they had only been following orders.
follow sb’s example (= copy someone’s behaviour )
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I tried to follow my parent’s example with my own kids.
follow sb’s logic (= to use someone’s logic in an activity or situation )
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Following this logic, none of these distressing conditions would be considered 'real' illnesses.
follow the coast (= stay close to the coast )
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The path follows the coast.
follow the instructions (= do what the instructions tell you to do )
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You should follow the instructions on the packet.
follow your heart (= do what your emotions want you to do )
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Go for it. Follow your heart. Who cares what everyone else thinks?
followed closely
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lightning, followed closely by thunder
follow/get/catch sb’s drift (= understand the general meaning of what someone is saying )
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She didn’t quite get my drift, did she?
follow...guidelines
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When starting a new business, try to follow these general guidelines .
following the dictates of
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teenagers following the dictates of fashion
following...lines
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The police are following several different lines of enquiry.
follow/monitor/chart sb’s progress (= keep checking it )
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Throughout the night, doctors charted his progress.
follow/obey your instinct(s) (= do what your instinct tells you to do )
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You should obey your instincts when dealing with strangers.
follow/observe a custom (= do something that is part of a custom )
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Following a Chinese custom, Deng changed his given name to mark the occasion.
follow/toe the party line (= to support the official opinion )
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He refused to toe the party line.
immediately after/following sth
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He retired immediately after the end of the war.
obey/follow a rule
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She wasn’t going to obey their silly rules.
pursue/follow a dream (= try to do or get what you want )
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She left her home town to pursue her dreams.
pursue/follow a policy (= continue with a policy over a period of time )
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The organization is pursuing a policy of cost cutting.
pursue/follow a strategy (= do a particular planned series of actions )
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They are pursuing different strategies.
slavishly followed
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not a rule to be slavishly followed in every instance
take/follow sb’s advice ( also act on sb’s advice formal ) (= do what someone advises you to do )
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He followed his doctor’s advice and went on a low-fat diet.
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The king acted on his advice and ordered his soldiers to get ready for battle.
the following chapters (= the ones after this one )
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The following chapters will explore this issue.
the following month (= the next month )
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By the following month he had raised over £400.
the following week
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She booked another appointment for the following week.
the following weekend
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The intention was to complete the work the following weekend.
the following year
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The following year he was made captain of the team.
the next morning/the following morning
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His meeting was not until the next morning.
the next/the following day (= the day after something happened in the past )
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The story was in the newspaper the following day.
watch/follow sb’s every move
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His eyes followed Cissy’s every move.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The plan of the book is as follows .
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Anaxagoras held that earthquakes are formed as follows .
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Davidson's account was as follows: The discussions at my house that evening were inconclusive.
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The authors define five recruitment strategies which can be summarized as follows: 1 educational qualifications perform a determinative function.
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The bargaining steps are as follows: 1 examine your opponent's position in depth.
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Itinerary from Day 10 is as follows: 1 night Delhi, 5 nights Srinagar, 1 night Delhi.
closely
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Operant conditioning involves contiguity, in that the reinforcing event follows closely the production of a response.
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She is followed closely by a little boy, who keeps ducking behind her whenever Yolanda smiles at him.
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This is followed closely by discounted admission to racecourses and greyhound tracks.
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Access to the region is restricted, and journalists who have traveled there have been closely followed and monitored.
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But this example of corporate induced injury pales beside one which followed closely afterwards.
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We wanted them to develop new applications from scratch, applications that would closely follow our interface guidelines.
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All Saints topped the chart with Pure Shores, closely followed by two artists who played live in Ireland last year.
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The Bloc Quebecois got the nod as official opposition with 54 seats, and Reform followed closely with 52.
immediately
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In the days immediately following the coup attempt there were a number of demonstrations in support of Djohar.
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Along with the increased possibilities of a recession, the energy crisis was immediately followed by a new inflationary leap.
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The gala opening by Brian Blessed in 1999 was followed immediately by the start of work on a new student refectory.
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From retail stores to hospitals to universities, doors remained open as back-up generators kicked in almost immediately following the power outage.
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When Lyle won the Masters in 1988, he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro.
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Science follows immediately , and the students quickly gather in groups to work on their exhibition in this area.
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But rhetorical questions can be over-used, especially where answers to the questions do not follow immediately .
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Riker and Gotler immediately followed them down to the road and picked them up.
through
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Stage one is preparation, stage two is production, and the final stage is follow through .
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Soon after he does, phone and cable companies will follow through on long-held plans to broaden their offerings.
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Even when such a calculation is not followed through , the insight obtained from the Fourier series concept is often helpful.
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John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose, voted for the bill while urging the state to follow through with a job-creation program.
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Too often, project loans are approved only to fail, or fail to be followed through .
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Once in the barn, Stewart felt obliged to follow through on the expedition by dramatically expressing undying love for Susan Mary.
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Loving, distracted, indulgent, my parents would never follow through on threats to ground me.
up
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But Miescher died in 1895, aged just 51, and never really followed up what in truth was a fine insight.
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Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers.
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At best, therefore, Freud's views must be regarded as suggestions that need to be followed up by systematic research.
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All such potential customer inquiries are followed up with a visit from a sales representative.
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Whether specific plans to follow up the lesson have been made. 10.
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You can start a new thread, follow up an existing one, and/or respond privately by email.
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A penalty was followed up with a try from Dan Dooley.
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It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment.
■ NOUN
advice
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Mind you, I must admit that having followed my own advice it's so far failed.
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Talk to your counselor about the best way to handle this, and follow his or her advice .
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It's always wise to follow the technical advice offered by paving manufacturers when preparing the foundations of your patio.
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Marvin was always doing this, trying to make the President feel he was breaking promises by not following his advice .
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This was followed by final production advice and then the national network broadcast at 6 o'clock.
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So far, Gingrich has declined to follow his own advice .
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It is apparent that he followed Miller's advice on the establishment of lawns and walks.
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The Career Search section is trying to follow that advice .
course
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Physical death follows in the course of time.
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With 209, it becomes law that we follow this course of action.
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Most cases follow a benign course .
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Why should both groups follow the same course ?
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In Ba Xuyen, it was understood that the course to follow was the straight course, the course of steady patience.
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Rostov thought about following the course of the river in one direction or the other.
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But you know how every dream is apt to follow its own course .
example
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Other judges should follow his example .
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Deng, who had been urging Kim for years to follow his reformist example , encouraged him anew.
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You're following the bad examples nowadays.
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The following example is illustrative: Case 1-4 A 60-year-old man developed acute oliguric renal failure.
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Consider the following hypothetical example from political science.
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If your insomnia is similar to the following examples , you might want to give bright-light therapy a try.
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I hope that many more in Hampshire and, indeed, throughout the country will follow their example .
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Even when other people around us do things we disapprove of, we don't have to follow their example .
footstep
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He had hopes of following in the footsteps of Dositej and becoming minister of education.
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Other talented women are fast following in her footsteps .
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And she's now following the footsteps of one of the world's most successful mountaineers.
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Let alone following in the footsteps of Herakles or Medeaboth of whom destroyed their own chil-dren.
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We hope that many more members of staff will soon follow in their footsteps .
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And what would become of the two remaining women cadets, and the many more who hoped to follow in their footsteps ?
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The division has followed in the footsteps of Pochin's mobile concrete pumping division who achieved the accreditation last year.
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I had followed in his footsteps .
guidelines
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By following a few simple guidelines it is possible to establish a very productive breeding programme.
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Creative cooks can devise their own oxtail dishes following some basic guidelines .
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Education and housing departments, water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work.
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We wanted them to develop new applications from scratch, applications that would closely follow our interface guidelines .
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To do so follow two simple guidelines . 1 Keep to the low-fat dishes. 2 Keep to the very simple dishes.
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If one follows these guidelines , the risk of hypercalcemia and hyperphosphatemia and their complications is reduced.
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If you follow the guidelines below your complaint will be dealt with in the most efficient manner possible.
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Prospective software developers had to learn the secrets of the toolbox so they could follow the guidelines for human interface.
instruction
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Tommy, following instructions from the uniform department, had shiny new black ones, with black socks.
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These grant forms may look casual enough, but follow their instructions and suggestions very carefully and precisely.
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With the fully charged battery in place, you are now ready to load a tape cassette, following the instructions .
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To quickly and easily assemble your Bouncy Bouncer, please follow these instructions carefully.
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All he had done was follow instructions .
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The book includes a bag of balloons, a hand pump and easy-to-follow instructions .
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To become a donor, simply click through and follow the instructions on how to print out the card.
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Miss Poole was only following instructions .
lead
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A team of two full-time staff is being employed to follow up leads .
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In the context of urban policy this meant that cities must follow the lead of private enterprise.
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Theoretically they should follow the lead of the Warbutt if he commands them; they are his vassals.
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But he is not the leader of any faction or group of lawmakers who would naturally follow his lead , lawmakers said.
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We welcome this opportunity to restate our position and encourage other units to follow our lead .
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They followed the lead of their entrepreneurial spirit, and as a result they have succeeded as capitalists.
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Use your entire staff to follow up any lead she can give you.
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Maybe you can follow their lead .
line
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Having said that, I rarely, if ever, follow a written pattern line by line.
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That change, too, follows racial lines .
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As Communists they followed the party line only loosely.
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To find it, simply follow a line from Beta through Epsilon.
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The priesthood built itself and if we help it along we are only following the line of least resistance.
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The purpose of this paper is to use published information to follow up these lines .
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The hot-air balloon skims along a wash, following the narrow line of trees and bushes across the desert.
move
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The move follows their dissatisfaction with what they say are deteriorating services throughout the area.
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The shock move follows his refusal to speak at a trial on the fate of the banned Communist Party.
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My every move was followed and watched with intense curiosity.
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The move follows an unsuccessful bid by Mr Foster to get the board to reinstate the facility Teesdale farmers regard as essential.
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The moves follow losses in 1994 and in the first nine months of 1995.
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This move follows the successful use of sheep to help the grassland habitat at Carew Castle.
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The move follows criticism by leading local government officials and academics.
path
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Whether the path will be followed and whether the forecast will prove accurate are doubtful in the extreme.
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Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers - at least, not quite.
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Democracy recognizes no prescribed path to be followed , because such prescriptiveness would curtail individual freedom.
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Woodland routes and paths following first the River Cardew, then a railway line, lead you to Carlisle.
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Yet now I see what an unerring path I followed to Clarisa.
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A* algorithms make a decision at point B about which path to follow up.
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The different birds offer a clue to the path the children must follow to gain their reward.
pattern
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You set the scene, as it were, for your presentation and then proceed to follow the pattern laid down.
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These elements were believed to follow certain patterns of movement, or what we would want to define as scientific laws today.
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For troubled marriages, researcher Karen Kayser has found, follow a pattern .
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And had followed the same pattern afterwards.
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When the conference met in May of that year, voting followed regional patterns .
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Although it is impossible to be sure what happened, this latest incident follows a developing pattern of violence in the camps.
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In such stories a certain amount of embellishment is expected and some elements, especially the dialogues, follow a familiar pattern .
procedure
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The group had followed the usual procedure of a claim followed by proof of abduction.
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These activities are most likely to appeal to the more methodical student wishing to follow a clear procedure .
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Where a copyright notice is required, is a copyright lost if the author does not follow these procedures ?
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The first is that there is no need to follow slavishly the whole procedure for each offence.
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People working without either psychotherapy or a regular meditation program should follow a similar procedure .
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Committees are formal and follow rules of procedure .
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She said it was Humphreys' responsibility as managing director to follow the correct procedure for getting rid of toxic waste.
report
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Video-Taped report follows Read in studio Good evening.
route
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But motorists, explorers and connoisseurs of beauty will follow the usual route departing along the A.83s.
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Fundamentalists preach that if one follows their rigorously prescribed route , one will be saved.
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To this day, I continued to follow the route of his hearse into a withdrawing space beyond this earth.
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Back at Olten, follow route 5 north-east to Aarau.
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I followed his chosen route through army and university but my heart wasn't in it.
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We also follow specially prepared bike routes , with little or no traffic.
rule
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Although those great animals have gone, they followed the same rules of instinct and habit as did their descendants.
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It is only necessary to get the judges to consider the same information and follow the same decision rules .
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Employees were to follow rules and regulations.
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Still, the Raiders will go nowhere until they begin following the rules .
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Once the sale is agreed, the salesperson should follow two rules .
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The workers' ignorance compounds their poverty: everywhere, failure to follow the most elementary rules of diet makes undernourishment worse.
track
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After following field tracks and minor roads across mid-Devon, passing through quaint villages, you arrive in Exmoor.
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We follow the dirt track that meanders with it.
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Other activities include tennis and bowling, or you may care to hire bikes and follow the marked tracks .
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Haru Ram ji stared at the ground, followed some tracks and announced that the camels would return in half an hour.
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Corbett and Ranulf followed the dusty track past green hedgerows and up a hill.
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We followed their tracks down into the swamp where a recent clearcut had left impenetrable thickets of young fir.
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The walk began by following a track which climbed steeply up a narrow, twisting valley.
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For some reason I always find it unsettling when some one follows my tracks .
voice
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Video-Taped report follows Voice over Gloucester are hoping history will be on their side tomorrow.
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Read in studio Video-Taped report follows Voice over Read in studio Good evening.
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Video-Taped report follows Voice over It's called a bean machine ... more like a mean machine.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a following wind
a hard/tough etc act to follow
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Clearly Amelia was a hard act to follow.
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Colm Toibin's piece will be a hard act to follow but I suspect you are up to it.
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I know that she will be a tough act to follow.
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It was a hard act to follow, but the poor did what they could to provide respectable funerals for their dead.
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John's is, of course, a hard act to follow.
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The new model has a tough act to follow.
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You've certainly set us a hard act to follow!
come/follow hot on the heels of sth
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It comes hot on the heels of the C5 saloon we showed you last week.
the following
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Typical examples of opposites include the following: small and large, cold and hot...
the following afternoon/month/page/chapter etc
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And she had returned the following afternoon, carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack.
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Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.
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Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.
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I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.
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In the following chapters, I emphasize what can be done, not what will be done.
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The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.
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We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.
the following example/way etc
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An illustration of the problems and possible solutions is provided by the following example.
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But there are alternative ways to teach and learn, as witnessed by the following examples of classrooms of commitment and conviction.
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In each of the following ways tracking hinders rather than helps chil-dren learn: 1.
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In general terms, the distinction between education and training can be formulated in the following way.
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Look at the following examples and compare your answers with them.
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Section 6 has been interpreted in the following ways.
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This can be seen in the following examples.
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This is known as the package index and is obtained in the following way for each package: 1.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Follow me and I'll show you where the library is.
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Follow the Iceberg Lake trail until you reach the shore.
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A full report follows this chapter.
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China's first nuclear test in October 1964 was closely followed by a second in May 1965.
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Did you make sure you weren't followed on the way over here?
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Do you follow baseball at all?
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Each chapter is followed by a set of exercises.
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He followed her home to find out where she lived.
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He was a military man, and therefore used to following orders.
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I'll drive, and you can follow us.
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I had difficulty following the story - there are so many different characters.
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I have followed your instructions exactly.
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In English the letter Q is always followed by a U.
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It was one of those paintings where the eyes follow you.
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Marlowe looked over his shoulder to make sure no one was following him.
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My little brother's been following me around all day.
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Several biotech companies are following the same line of research.
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She complained to the police officer that she was being followed by two strangers.
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She didn't notice that Jack had followed her into the kitchen.
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Suddenly there was a shout from above, immediately followed by a loud bang.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Classes will be held daily from 8 to 10 p. m., followed by practice at local tango bars until midnight.
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Opening statements may not come until late next week, with witnesses and evidence following.
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She could see no sign of anyone following her.
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Then, through the rain, she heard a scratching sound, followed by a sharp, impatient bark.
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This advice will not be easy to follow .