Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The pattern today includes most of the features which people created in the past . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The wooden propellers have fixed blades — another simplification compared with the variable pitch propellers that BHC used in the past to alter the thrust . |
| 6 | However , while shoplifting occurred in the past , the extent of the crime has grown massively in recent years . |
| 7 | Puppies are unable to relate to an event which occurred in the past , so if you find that a place has been soiled overnight there is little point in scolding the puppy accordingly . |
| 8 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 9 | One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ? |
| 10 | Willses have never been ashamed of their religious faith , and the disabilities which they suffered in the past as Nonconformists served to strengthen their convictions . |
| 11 | ‘ Remember what you suffered in the past ! |
| 12 | ‘ Scotland suffered in the past from too much misguided , if well-meaning , interference in its economic life . |
| 13 | You waste time in the present lamenting over something that happened in the past . |
| 14 | You feel guilty in the here and now about things that happened in the past which you can not correct . |
| 15 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 16 | The raw emotions depicted in such stories would be unbearable if they were within a contemporary setting : it is the thought that ‘ this happened in the past ’ that buffers the reader . |
| 17 | The raw materials are the real facts that happened in the past ; historians supply manufactured goods in which the facts are processed according to the prejudices of the manufacturers and the demands of the consumers . |
| 18 | Let's begin by looking at what happened in the past , as it will give some insights into what took place in Utah in 1989 and help us understand better why people reacted in the ways that they did . |
| 19 | Erroneous police conclusions are often caused by considerable obstacles to the discovery of what happened in the past . |
| 20 | To increase the reliability of police investigations we need , in the first place , to accept that the cause for flawed police results is generally rooted in serious problems encountered in attempts to determine what happened in the past . |
| 21 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
| 22 | This is largely because historians often disagree , and sometimes fundamentally , about what happened in the past and why . |
| 23 | Views of what happened in the past will vary . |
| 24 | But er unfortunately , this is something that happened in the past and the government have been prosecuted for it , they 've been found guilty , but Blackpool 's name has been dragged way down with them . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's all rather complicated and I do n't really know , but whatever happened in the past I have an obligation to look after Beryl . |
| 26 | Darwin deduced that it happened in the past from what he saw happening today-as in the finches and turtles of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 27 | They are not looking back at what happened in the past . |
| 28 | However , if you pursue the associations and begin to delve into the latent content , what you often find is that those day 's residues , which are specific to that day , as Theresa was saying , relate to more general erm situations , or indeed to things that actually happened in the past which that particular aspect of that particular day might remind you of . |
| 29 | All our interpretations about what happened in the past must ultimately rest upon this evidence surviving from the past . |
| 30 | Books written in the present day by historians are undoubtedly secondary sources , each representing one person 's view of what happened in the past . |