Example sentences of "[vb past] previously [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross had previously noticed that Minton seemed slightly uneasy on his own , ‘ as if questions might be put to him that he preferred not to consider ’ , and liked better the easy banter encouraged by the presence of a crowd . |
| 2 | The United States argued that Nicaragua itself had previously represented that it , Nicaragua , had no binding declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) and was estopped from now asserting the validity of its declaration . |
| 3 | Responding to the complaints , Mandela , who had previously acknowledged that there had been abuses , said that all the allegations would be thoroughly investigated . |
| 4 | Washington had previously stated that the 12,000 American troops in Panama would be used only to defend the Canal and themselves . |
| 5 | The French Captain Landolphe had previously noted that leading members of the Oba 's councils wore two necklaces as well as anklets and bracelets of coral , whereas lesser untitled officials were allowed only one necklace each . |
| 6 | The ANC had previously insisted that the drafting should be left to a Constituent Assembly chosen in a non-racial election . |
| 7 | Russia had previously insisted that its troops could not be withdrawn from the Baltic states before 1997-99 because of the difficulties of housing returning servicemen . |
| 8 | His testimony follows that of Cesare Romiti , managing director of Fiat , who had previously announced that his company will be collaborating with investigators . |
| 9 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker had previously announced that the Japanese contribution had been offered without precondition and would be used for military purposes , but within hours of Kaifu 's pledge the US State Department indicated that it had no objection to such a restriction . |
| 10 | The Israeli government had previously said that less than 1 per cent of Soviet Jews had settled in the territories , but its count had covered only the West Bank and Gaza Strip , excluding East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights . |
| 11 | The Italian authorities had previously said that those remaining , out of an estimated 24,000 , had until the end of July to find jobs , obtain political asylum , or be deported [ see p. 38351 ] ; the Italian attitude changed quickly , however , when on Aug. 7 a new flotilla of refugee boats appeared off Adriatic ports , with an estimated 17,000 people aboard . |
| 12 | He had previously ascertained that there were at least two aircraft with similar radio fits and noted their positions . |
| 13 | The Army and RUC had previously decided that , while the demonstration was too big to be prevented , it should none the less be confined to the ghetto . |
| 14 | The branch had previously disclosed that a BA fitter had used the wrong bolts to secure the windscreen panel , which fell off at 17,000 feet , 20 minutes after take-off . |
| 15 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 16 | Sarah had previously suggested that they should try the effect of Queen Caroline 's ‘ Christmas trees ’ — young fir trees set in tubs and put upon the table or in a window seat and then decked with penny candles . |
| 17 | The presence of vitamin D 3 receptors in normala nd malignant colorectal tissue , together with the increased colonic absorption of calcium after small bowel resection , had previously suggested that the colon could be a target organ for 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 . |
| 18 | Backster had previously shown that his own house plants were capable of responding to a lie by changes in electrical activity as measured by the lie detector . |
| 19 | However , we had previously shown that a 2.3kb HNF-L promoter fragment linked to the Thy-1 gene was not expressed early in development , but rather mimicked the expression pattern of the Thy-1 gene ( 28 ) . |
| 20 | Iraq had previously claimed that the war had begun with Iranian bombardments of Iraqi territory on Sept. 4 , 1980 . |
| 21 | Consoling her was ‘ Sister Flo ’ , emaciated and lugubrious , who had previously confided that she had ‘ been unfort'nate — I buried tew 'usbands ’ . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , who had previously held that the time was not yet ripe for ERM entry , said at a press conference later on Oct. 5 that it was now possible because of " incontestable signs that the economy is working in the way we intended it to " . |
| 23 | He said that the USA had previously proposed that in return for a complete " freeze or suspension " of settlement building , " the Arabs should consider an equivalent suspension of the boycott " of Israel ( by the Arab League ) . |