Example sentences of "had [been] [vb pp] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 2 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
| 3 | The trial had been featured for the previous three days . |
| 4 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 5 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 6 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 7 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 8 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 9 | In the face of opposition calls for a boycott , and reports of widespread apathy among the electorate , the Interior Ministry announced on Sept. 5 that a 99.96 per cent " yes " vote had been achieved in the previous day 's referendum on proposed constitutional changes . |
| 10 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 11 | The canal boatmen who came to live in Fisher Row upon the opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 were a colourful group with distinctive dress , customs and style of boat decoration which had been developed in the previous two decades upon the canals of the Midlands . |
| 12 | Each respondent was asked to select a project of which he had detailed knowledge and that had been completed within the previous two years . |
| 13 | Earlier , police in Pretoria had on Sept. 17 arrested Piet ( " Skiet " ) Rudolph , deputy leader of the far-right Boerestaat party , who had been wanted for the previous four months in connection with bombings and arms thefts . |
| 14 | On Dec. 13 the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report claiming that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in the previous six months and criticizing the provisions of the emergency powers decreed in early November which allowed the disposal of bodies by the security forces without a post-mortem or inquest [ see p. 37007 ] . |
| 15 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 16 | William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect . |
| 17 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 18 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 19 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 20 | The president said 18 APLA guerrillas had been arrested in the previous 24 hours . |
| 21 | In it , Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries . |
| 22 | Following the dinner , a slide presentation of some of the matches held at Auchterader were shown by Pat McGrath who had captured the day on film — some of which had been published in the previous issue of the Glenpatrick News . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the outgoing men had been returned in the previous election by large majorities and established MPs are difficult to oust . |
| 24 | But they did n't change it because the only one of similar age available to them had been used in the previous match when Waqar took seven for 87 against Gloucestershire . |
| 25 | Although lacking a formal programme , Fujimori had rejected " shock " adjustments at a time when he claimed that the buying power of the majority of people had been halved over the previous year and that the needs of the poorest sectors had still to be met . |
| 26 | reported that a meeting had been held on the previous evening . |
| 27 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 28 | It must be remembered , however , that the Bretton Woods arrangements and the associated rules of conduct were designed with the intention of avoiding the conflicts of national interest which had been associated with the previous period of floating . |
| 29 | The Independent of Feb. 27 cited diplomatic sources as stating that 44 elected representatives had been imprisoned since the previous May . |
| 30 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |