Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any trimming should be done in mid-spring , very lightly so as not to cut into growth older than that produced the previous year . |
| 2 | This eclipsed the previous best sale achieved by the magazine with the Wales Centenary issue of October 1980 by some 23,000 . |
| 3 | This alters the previous law , where it was held in effect that where a policeman was the only witness to what had occurred , no offence was committed . |
| 4 | The local authority also undertakes supervision of children and this replaces the previous probation order . |
| 5 | Paragraphs 11 and 12 remove the previous power of the Treasury to give , in certain circumstances , directives to the C & AG . |
| 6 | The Bayeux tapestry gives a magnificent cartoon report of the action , but it needs to be seen as a piece of victorious Norman propaganda ; it is to be doubted that the English spent the previous night in carousing whilst the Normans engaged in earnest prayer . |
| 7 | This followed the previous removal of eight children into care in November 1990 . |
| 8 | Some saw the previous day as the most moving , others thought the silence after shut-down back at base to be terminal . |
| 9 | This restates the previous law , and it may be supposed that , in the situations envisaged , there are good reasons why the conduct should not be regarded as criminal . |
| 10 | This restates the previous position at common law , that a person who holds himself out as being prepared to carry out a service is expected to exercise a level of skill that could be expected of a reasonably competent member of the relevant trade . |
| 11 | This replaced the previous rule in London Street Tramways Co. v. LCC [ 1898 ] AC 375 ( HL ) , which held the House of Lords to be bound by its own previous decisions . |
| 12 | And she becomes rather alarmed to discover the previous occupant of her room bore an uncanny resemblance to her and had a penchant for bungee jumping without a rope . |
| 13 | I was most comfortable using the previous day 's shuffle but with an added stoop . |
| 14 | Things came to a head on 30 January 1971 when a NICRA march in Derry , rendered illegal by Faulkner 's blanket banning of all marches the previous August , found its exit from the ghetto blocked by British soldiers , including the Parachute Regiment . |
| 15 | We had n't managed to get any speakers this year but had all enjoyed the previous meeting in Oc in October . |
| 16 | Section 11 reverses the previous legislation on the subject in the Misrepresentation Act 1967 , and the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , as well as the English Law Commission 's initial recommendation on the subject . |
| 17 | The OLA 1957 abolished the previous common-law distinction between invitees and licensees and substitutes a single duty of care . |
| 18 | ( b ) Adjust the illumination and restart at Option 1 to recalculate the blackout and whiteout points , or Option 4 to retain the previous values and merely recalculate the ‘ best ’ exposure . |
| 19 | By the spring of 1956 Devon Loch , now a ten-year-old but lightly raced , was clearly a serious candidate for the Grand National : he had won two good chases the previous autumn and finished fifth in the King George VI Chase to Limber Hill . |
| 20 | Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost . |
| 21 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 22 | Against this background , the Wells Committee , the following year , recommended that , as from 1962 , the minimum academic entry requirement for the Institution 's examinations should be raised to five O levels at one sitting the previous standard of five O levels with at least three at one sitting having been established in 1951 . |
| 23 | He was speaking as the bank unveiled a bounce-back into the black for 1992 , with pre-tax profits of £9.84 million replacing the previous year 's loss of £5.97 million . |
| 24 | Sterling also fell more than 2 cents to $1.4345 , and its trade-weighted average value slumped from 77.0 to equal the previous record closing low of 76.0 per cent of its 1985 level . |
| 25 | The aircraft was one of a fleet of 14 purchased the previous years from its European manufacturers , Airbus Industrie , at a cost of US$38,000,000 each . |
| 26 | Atle Skaardal 's victory in the second Val Gardena downhill to follow his third place the previous day must have persuaded the most recalcitrant langrenn devotee that Arnold Lunn , arguing devotedly for downhill rules sixty years before , was not so wrong after all . |
| 27 | The ten-strong squad for the weekend — in which the Scots are in a pool with Romania and Tonga — will be named today and the likelihood is that Derek Stark , omitted in Fiji after a lacklustre showing the previous week in Canberra , will be restored . |