be consequent

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Chronic inflammation may follow acute or be consequent on pelvic cellulitis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

It may also appear to some that there would be consequent upon this system of regulating criminals a very undesirable increase of our present rather extensive system for the care of criminals.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Enormous eventualities would be consequent upon solving the mystery of that man’s death.

From Hushed Up! A Mystery of London by Le Queux, William

It couldn’t, he reflected uneasily, be consequent on that moonlight walk...

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills

Receive, coldly and dispassionately, every attention, till you have ascertained and duly considered the worth of the aspirant; and let your affections be consequent upon approbation alone. 

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne