Example sentences of "[prep] previous [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a review of previous studies it has been indicated ( Gupta , 1983 ) that stream channels are affected by low-frequency , high-magnitude events and the persistence of such effects is greater in arid and semi-arid than in temperate areas ( Wolman and Gerson , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Q P16 we are going to move on from then , unless there are any other comments on Q P16 , Rita is going to attempt to redraft and draw together material from previous procedures , and that means that adjustments of previous procedures you will be able to sign , and finalise them . |
| 3 | Once successfully test flown , Don intends to sell the aircraft , as has been the case with previous replicas he has built — the Bristol M.1C and Sopwith Tabloid on display at the RAF Museum , Hendon . |
| 4 | In the same way as in previous analyses we divided the men according to whether or not the placental weight was above 1.25 pounds ( 567 g ) . |
| 5 | In previous chapters we have seen how the ancient manor of Combsburgh had been partially enclosed as early as the fourteenth century , especially in the areas close to the market town , and how the bulk of the field structure had been established by the late sixteenth century . |
| 6 | In previous chapters we have seen how our views of the nature of time have changed over the years . |
| 7 | In previous chapters we have discussed tax incentives , competition policy , and industrial policy . |
| 8 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 9 | In previous chapters I have described general relativity , the partial theory of gravity , and the partial theories that govern the weak , the strong , and the electromagnetic forces . |
| 10 | In previous instalments we took our faltering first steps into the world of connectivity , that buzzword of the nineties . |
| 11 | In previous studies we have shown that in the colon of non-methanogenic human subjects , significant populationsof sulphate reducing bacteria exist . |
| 12 | In previous studies it was shown that the serum concentration increases in conditions where there is bile acid loss — for example , after ileal resection and cholestyramine treatment , and decreases where there is decreased bile acid synthesis — for example , in cirrhosis of the liver . |
| 13 | In previous sections we have contrasted the cereal-packet image of the family in modern Britain with the different sorts of arrangements and structures that occur over the family life cycle . |
| 14 | In previous lives we have been both male and female , both bad and good . |
| 15 | In previous generations it was much less likely than it is now that grandparents would have lived to know their grandchildren as adults ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) . |
| 16 | In previous Lectures we have examined the incidence of taxation by factors or classes we have asked whether a tax is borne by those receiving capital income or those with wages . |
| 17 | In previous posts I have enjoyed the wide variety of issues in which local government is involved and working in a political environment . |
| 18 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 19 | As in previous years we shall conduct a nationwide advertising campaign in the early autumn to encourage people to complete and return the electoral registration form . |
| 20 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 21 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 22 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 23 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 24 | In previous relationships it had always been Lotta who had moved on to better things ; she 'd never been rejected before and she felt angry and humiliated , particularly as she saw her standard of living about to fall . ’ |
| 25 | This in itself is odd because in previous terms I had often ( though not regularly ) described meals in detail . |
| 26 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 27 | On previous tasks he has usually been on the cordon ringing the incident that the EOD team has been involved with , and cursing them for taking so long . |
| 28 | On previous occasions he had given me a Tibetan prayer-wheel and a monastery bell which I still cherish . |
| 29 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 30 | On previous days we have talked about setting goals . |