Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the previous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having stated the case you may legitimately put it into its historical setting in order to show what advance it made on the previous law ; and you may also indicate the trend of development that it started . |
| 2 | Not only that its value depends on H , but , even worse , it depends on the previous history of the sample . |
| 3 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |
| 4 | It consisted of the previous achievements of Taylorism in the application of empirical methods to the study , design and ‘ de-skilling/re-skilling ’ of work ( see Clegg and Dunkerly , 1980 : chs 3 , 11 ) . |
| 5 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |