Example sentences of "[verb] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | After defeating Brighton 's unseeded Julie Salmon 6–3 , 6–3 , the British No 1 wondered why younger players she beat in the past did n't ask her advice . |
| 2 | The British Boys Champion Cup has been won in the past by men such as Ronan Rafferty and Jose Maria Olathaval . |
| 3 | The British Boys Champion Cup has been won in the past by men such as Ronan Rafferty and Jose Maria Olathaval . |
| 4 | For all the problems that it raises , this formidable wish-list is better than a constantly repeated non , which is about all that France contributed in the past . |
| 5 | His home and car had been fire- bombed and Mr Reynolds had been attacked in the past . |
| 6 | The kind of place where dark deeds in the name of history have been committed in the past and where a mysterious brooding quality remains . |
| 7 | In general , such an injunction will be granted only when offences have been committed in the past and it appears that mere prosecution will not deter further breaches of the law in the future . |
| 8 | The answer , like the explanation of bird migration , lies in the past , though a much more distant one , for fish are a much more ancient group than the birds . |
| 9 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |
| 10 | The inhibiting effect of sedimentation on corals has been stressed in the past and it has been said that the absence of corals from the mouths of large rivers , for example those of south-east Asia , is due to the amount of fine suspended sediment . |
| 11 | Yet in order to understand the present pattern and appearance of settlements , allowance has to be made for varying degrees of change occurring in the past . |
| 12 | However , we have to acknowledge the considerable benefits that have accrued in the past because people have hunted — benefits to conservation in general , not to the individual animals being hunted . |
| 13 | In the eighties , though , everything from pop to advertising is telling us that all the golden ages are located in the past . |
| 14 | The pattern today includes most of the features which people created in the past . |
| 15 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 16 | Well certainly the starting point for that must be to look at what has been happening in the past as evidence . |
| 17 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 18 | We can begin to understand this vital principle when we reflect on how we have been emotionally wounded in the past . |
| 19 | Mink keeping in the past did lead to the temporary establishment of wild mink — the escape occurred at Womdale , in Shetland when the winds blew a hut through the farmer 's perimeter fence , liberating a number of unmated female mink . |
| 20 | ( 1989 ) reported that the scale of development of flexible employment strategies had ‘ been exaggerated in the past by media hype and to some extent by the enthusiasm of academics ’ . |
| 21 | As I indicated in the preceding chapter , innovative approaches to language teaching that have been recommended in the past have not , generally speaking , been subjected to this kind of pragmatic treatment . |
| 22 | Empirical studies have taken three forms : ( a ) controlled experiments , usually observing how selected persons respond to higher benefits ( negative taxes ) ; ( b ) questionnaires based on random samples , and ( c ) econometric studies using data on how people have responded in the past to tax changes . |
| 23 | Now , Robert Maxwell has not responded in the past , why do you think that now he 'll respond to er these new moves ? |
| 24 | An average cost basis is required to be returned in situations where : it is the existing , explicit , basis of valuation ; the Revenue has specifically left an employee 's affairs open pending the outcome of the case ; the benefits were first provided in 1991/92 ; or benefits have not been reported in the past due to fraud or negligence . |
| 25 | Perhaps his tactics were more skilful ; perhaps the gentry were reconciled to paying taxes by the prospect of gain from monastic lands ; perhaps the King was wise in these last years to avoid taxing the poor , from whom overt resistance had come in the past ; perhaps there was a genuine fear of invasion from France . |
| 26 | A significant part of the other third of its income has come in the past from moneys from the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 27 | The willingness to share in the experiences of patients ; to share their sense of loss , disappointment , anger and grief and the spiritual anguish which can challenge the way they have thought , perhaps believed and behaved in the past , can add to your nursing care much more than withdrawing from or denying such experience . |
| 28 | Michael Howard , Secretary of State for Unemployment , in announcing employment action in Parliament , stated , this Government , have placed policies designed to lead to job creation and they will succeed in the future as they they have succeeded in the past . |
| 29 | Incredibly , ten minutes after they 'd left , we found the naughty little locking device and so , dear reader , for those that have failed to pass the Vibes club criteria test in the past , here it is , the competition eve YOU can not lose ! |
| 30 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |