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follows on

vb. (en-third-person singular of: follow on)

Usage examples of "follows on".

The extinction of species and of whole groups of species, which has played so conspicuous a part in the history of the organic world, almost inevitably follows on the principle of natural selection.

Then sleep follows on food, because food produces just the same effects as air, while it is distributed into all the veins.

This it does do, and follows on until it has quite reached the stone and fastened on it with unseen bonds of connexion.

The same conclusion follows on theoretical grounds if the no boundary proposal is correct.