succeed(FOLLOW)
This evening's talk will be preceded by a brief introduction from Mr Appleby.
Verbs usually precede objects in English.
The attacks were preceded by a period of unrest in the capital city.
He preceded Dennis Healey as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
I'm not sure if I fully understand the sentence which precedes this one.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Preceding and introducing
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precede | American Dictionary

precede
verb[ T ]
us/prɪˈsid/
to be or go before someone or something in time or space:
John Adams preceded Thomas Jefferson as president.
Nouns are often preceded by adjectives

preceding

adjective[ not gradable ]us/prɪˈsi·dɪŋ/
The table on the preceding page shows the test results.

Examples of precede

precede
Reproductive responses incorporate the phonetic characteristics of the preceding child utterance into maternal responses.
The preceding analysis provides prima facie evidence of close linkages between political parties, policy preferences and market outcomes.
This leads to a large tensor product which can then be simplified using the techniques from the preceding section.
Most of the research reviewed in the preceding nine categories tends to favor the 2-gen over the 1-gen model.
Each chapter is preceded by a contents page, has clear subject headings throughout, and concludes with a summary and suggestions for further reading.
Yet a reduction division must precede fertilisation or problems with ploidy will compromise the viability of the resulting embryo.
Of course, this repetition has also to be performed now with the amendments analogous to those specified in the preceding paragraphs of this last section.
The discussions preceding "offering truth," the physical setting, and the way decisionmaking options are phrased can greatly affect how the patient chooses.
This task always preceded the word recognition task.
On the upper level of comprehensive school the content items presented differed slightly from the preceding phase.
The target sentences were preceded, followed, and separated by a number of filler sentences.
The following interactions are specific sequences containing the preceding behaviors.
In fact, the floor turn is relatively unconnected to preceding discourse.
The remainder of this section gives a proof of the expression (14) and discusses some points which arise from the preceding paragraph.
On the other hand, assimilation is progressive (left-toright) in one case : a trough \\i\\ will assimilate to a preceding trough \\a\\.
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