Example sentences of "had previously been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
| 2 | The pool of enriched BL-29 polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) products was used as a probe to hybridize to filters of the cosmid clones that had previously been isolated with YAC clone y178–3 . |
| 3 | At that time , some working class youths in London adopted as their uniform the long ‘ Edwardian ’ coats and tight trousers which had previously been worn by young men-about-town at the time of the New Look . |
| 4 | The Yang brothers had previously been regarded as close allies of Deng . |
| 5 | On the basis of a large response the Bureaux Services Committee decided to substitute Mesher for the ‘ Yellow Book ’ which had previously been supplied on supplementary benefit and family income supplement . |
| 6 | The creatures had previously been forced into convenient taxonomic pigeon-holes , whether they fitted or not . |
| 7 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
| 8 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 9 | Pupils themselves disliked the way that they had previously been divided from one another ; and although there had been considerable advances made in the early 1980s in running joint CSE/GCE courses and examinations , these were patchy and voluntary , and unlikely to have been acceptable to the more academic of those who had an interest in the outcome of the examinations , especially the universities . |
| 10 | All the portfolios had previously been held by other members of the Cabinet . |
| 11 | Underwood 's position as England 's leading try-scorer , with 35 to his credit , has a two-fold RAF connection because when he scored against Ireland in 1990 the record he overtook had previously been held by another RAF pilot and winger , Cyril Lowe , who totalled 18 between 1913 and 1923 when winning 25 consecutive caps . |
| 12 | This scheme — which was widely adopted by colonial administrations right across the continent — killed two birds with one stone : it both raised money and it produced a large labour force which had previously been occupied with growing food for their families . |
| 13 | In his review of man , vegetation and the sediment yields of rivers Douglas suggested that little account had previously been taken of human influence and his studies of rates of erosion in a wide range of climatic conditions in eastern Australia suggested that the present sediment yields are far in excess of those which may have prevailed in the geological past . |