following passage

collocation in English

meaningsoffollowingandpassage

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following
adjective
uk
/ˈfɒl.əʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈfɑː.loʊ.ɪŋ/
The following day, morning, etc. is the ...
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passage
noun
uk
/ˈpæs.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈpæs.ɪdʒ/
a usually long and narrow part of a building with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path that ...
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(Definition offollowingandpassagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffollowing passage

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Thefollowingpassageis an example.
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Read thefollowingpassageat your own rate.
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Thefollowingpassage, the climax of the middle section, is marked by chromatic harmony.
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Thus, isolates can lose expression of this important proteinfollowingpassagein vitro.
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He sets out the ideas of ethically neutral and ethically non-neutral propositions in thefollowingpassage.
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I will read out thefollowingpassage.
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Thefollowingpassagehighlights my point.
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Thefollowingpassagenicely illustrates that the norm beyond which an action goes is quite distinct from the entity that appears as a direct object.
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He seems here to be using it as a secondary principle in a consequentialist scheme, as thefollowingpassageseems to indicate.
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The court dealt with those applications to call further evidence in thefollowingpassage.
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He does experience a scientific "pause," and a sense of "wonder," but as illustrated in thefollowingpassage, their object is selfabsorption, not aesthetic connection with the otherness of mystery.
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With the word "or", the words "purports to be a disclosure" cannot mean the same as thefollowingpassage.
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Thefollowingpassagegives us an idea of the problems that might arise if a member state lapsed into certain behaviour.
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Thefollowingpassageis sufficiently comprehensive, and written with interesting style.
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Thefollowingpassageis read in a rotting tome and initiates the quest::...
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Followingpassageof indigent care laws in 1928, patient admissions increased greatly.
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Thefollowingpassagestates the risk associated with trading without approval.
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It is expected that all water authorities will change their status to water supply plcs on the same day in 1987followingpassageof the necessary legislation.
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Followingpassageof the fireball, it is not unusual for a dust trail to linger in the atmosphere for several minutes.
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Others note that funding for the law increased massivelyfollowingpassageand that billions in funds previously allocated to particular uses could be reallocated to new uses.
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In 2012,followingpassageof a new federal law, restoring direct elections of heads of federal subjects, the city charter was again amended to provide for direct elections of governor.
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