Example sentences of "had previously been [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conclusions about the functions of one hemisphere that had previously been based on observations of the effects of injury could be confirmed by studies that showed that the self-same functions were retained by that hemisphere after section of the callosum , but were not available to the other . |
| 2 | Whereas the recruitment of comfort women — some of whom had been as young as 12 years of age — had previously been acknowledged by Japan , no proof had previously been uncovered that the practice had been an official and systematically imposed policy . |
| 3 | Zegeye Asfaw , appointed Agriculture and Environmental Protection and Development Minister , had previously been named as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in a radio broadcast on May 9 . |
| 4 | In family 5 the mother 's brother had previously been confirmed by muscle biopsy and so a biopsy on the infant was thought unnecessary . |
| 5 | ZNF25 had previously been assigned to 10p11.2-q11.2 ( 5 ) , but its physical linkage to cluster A genes refines its map location to 10p11.2 . |
| 6 | Baragiola had previously been convicted of murder in Italy , but had escaped in 1980 and obtained Swiss citizenship . |
| 7 | No rises of this scale had previously been recorded in peacetime . |
| 8 | These constitutional provisions had previously been called into question during a highly controversial case in February 1992 when the High Court in Dublin prevented a 14-year-old girl and her family from procuring an abortion or from leaving Ireland for nine months , even though she had repeatedly threatened to commit suicide ; the order preventing her from leaving the country was subsequently lifted after an appeal based on recognition of the equal rights of mother and child and the right to freedom of movement within the EC [ see p. 38780 ] . |
| 9 | Workers would sometimes carry the officials , who had previously been barred from entry , shoulder-high through the gates . |
| 10 | Firstly , as the research on the course of schizophrenia described in chapter 5 showed , a high level of criticism and overinvolvement expressed by the key close relative in the home increased the likelihood that a person who had previously been treated for schizophrenia would suffer an acute relapse of florid symptoms . |
| 11 | At the end of the war , under communist control , Yugoslavia became a federation , and Serbia lost not only its dominant position but also large areas that had previously been regarded as part of its territory . |
| 12 | They had reached the grave , and Ace obediently turned to face the crowd , so that they could n't see her freed hands , which had previously been hidden by Petion 's body . |
| 13 | One consequence of this boom was the large scale corporate invasion of the estate agency sector , a sector that had previously been dominated by mediumD and smallD sized firms . |
| 14 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 15 | Staff of the Global Seismology Unit had previously been working at Edinburgh and Eskdalemuir , under the control of the Meteorological Office , and at the Royal Observatory , Edinburgh . |
| 16 | The first was that authorised dissection of corpses had previously been restricted to felons as an ultimate retribution imposed by society . |
| 17 | Its chief original purpose was to facilitate transportation by road of the products of the Coalbrookdale iron works ( q.v. ) , which had previously been conveyed by river and canal transport . |
| 18 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 19 | The drive to an industrialised Britain brought many people from the villages to the towns , and alerted the authorities to the widespread presence of mentally handicapped people who had previously been contained within farming communities and cared for by their families . |
| 20 | Minas Gerais , for example , wanted to gain some of the job-creating benefits of playing host to foreigners that had previously been concentrated around Sao Paolo , and did a deal with Fiat ; Parana acted similarly with Volvo . |
| 21 | Hodder has published Lord Archer since Kane and Abel in 1979 — he had previously been published by Cape — and has all his fiction in print in Coronet paperback ; contrary to rumour , Coronet retains this backlist . |
| 22 | His second wife was Joan , daughter of William of Standon , who had previously been married to Bartholomew de Briaunzon . |
| 23 | On occasions , wage pressure exploded in very sharp increases , especially where it had previously been compressed by incomes policies . |
| 24 | Wilson , of Low Moor , Darlington , told the court he had previously been told by police that the knife was not an offensive weapon . |
| 25 | Parliament also complained strongly against the appointment of Arminians , who believed in the doctrine of free will , to important positions in the Church which had previously been held by Calvinists . |
| 26 | In November 1990 Wilson was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and in February 1991 Daly was appointed Defence Minister [ see p. 38020 ] , both of which portfolios had previously been held by Brian Lenihan , who was dismissed in October 1990 [ see p. 37868 ] . |
| 27 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 28 | He and his later antislavery advocates argued that the results demonstrated the greater efficiency of the work done — a genuine experiment because the whip had previously been removed from overseers and offences amongst the slaves dealt with by a jury of elders amongst the slaves themselves . |
| 29 | The small eighteenth-century house with a delightful garden had previously been occupied by Lord McAlpine , former Treasurer of the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | He had previously been arrested in May 1982 , when he was editor-in-chief of al-Yawm newspaper , and was held without charge or trial until he was released following an amnesty at the end of 1982 . |