Example sentences of "have previously [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has previously been a non-executive director of Fitness Daily PLC and Moving Wear PLC . |
| 2 | He had previously been a junior minister at the Department of Energy and financial secretary to the Treasury . |
| 3 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 4 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 5 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 6 | And she went on to explain to him how they would now have to hasten what had previously been a very leisure long-term affair , at least in her mind . |
| 7 | The bright tangle of plants had become a funereal monochrome , and there was a dullness where there had previously been a dazzling glimpse of the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man . |