following sentence
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffollowingandsentence
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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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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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(Definition offollowingandsentencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, thefollowingsentencehas the subject-asymmetric reading counting donkey-owning farmers.
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Our use of "attempt" here and "seek" in thefollowingsentenceshould not be understood as implying conscious effort.
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Another example of a nonlogophoric use of a locally free self-form is thefollowingsentencetaken from a recent novel.
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For example, 'few' predicts that thefollowingsentencewill provide the reason why so few children were specified in the first sentence.
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The nominalisations were disambiguated in context: the judges were given the corpus sentence in which the nominalisation occurred together with the previous andfollowingsentence.
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Say thefollowingsentenceto the child and ask what should be filled in the appropriate blanks. 15.
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What then is it that makes him, in summing up the defects of the offending passage, write thefollowingsentenceof his own?
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This type served as the baseline condition against which thefollowingsentencetypes were compared.
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Then comes thefollowingsentence.
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This emphasis is captured by associated inferences which place sets in focus and predict the relation between the sentence containing the quantifier and thefollowingsentence.
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We need not rehearse the prehistory of electroacoustic music to recognise the importance of how thefollowingsentenceindicates how quickly and how far things have evolved.
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Thefollowingsentenceis ungrammatical.
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For example, it is much more preferable to apply tone sandhi across the board in sentential subjects than in verb phrases, as shown in thefollowingsentencepair.
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We see this in thefollowingsentence.
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One of them is the use of the word indigenous as in thefollowingsentence: ' the greatest biolinguistic diversity is found in areas inhabited by indigenous peoples ' (ix).
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I included thefollowingsentencein my notes, which is perhaps slightly droll, but still applies.
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The answer is there in thefollowingsentencewhich he did not read.
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Thefollowingsentencecontains the most important point.
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Thefollowingsentencealso gives immunity for threats to do these things.
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