Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 2 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 3 | The futures price has fallen between the previous close and last trade by 2.0 ( i.e.1812.5 -1810.5 ) or by 4 ticks ( i.e. 2.0/0.5 ) . |
| 4 | Dysmap works by solving a large number of simultaneous equations at specified time intervals , using the information already calculated for the previous time interval as the basis for the current series of calculations . |
| 5 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 6 | The election had become necessary after the all-party government of Xenofon Zolotas , formed after the previous inconclusive election , collapsed in March over disagreements on how to tackle the country 's worsening economic problems . |
| 7 | In addition , the year-long political deadlock had itself become an election issue because the weak coalitions formed after the previous elections had been unable to deal with the economic crisis and the growth of urban terrorism . |
| 8 | On conviction , the court has to set a value on the drug assets earned during the previous six years , and a confiscation order . |
| 9 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 10 | Increased tension with India over Kashmir [ see pp. 37377-78 ; 37451-52 ] ensured that the defence budget was increased to Rs63,300 million in 1990-91 after it had been effectively frozen during the previous budget period . |
| 11 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 12 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 13 | The invoice amount also includes interest accrued from the previous coupon payment . |
| 14 | The Indians , who qualified for the finals after a last-gasp win over West Indies in the final qualifying match , were never on course to match Australia 's 233 for 5 , the feature of which was an innings of 73 from Dean Jones , recalled after surprisingly being omitted from the previous match . |
| 15 | One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status . |
| 16 | Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary . |
| 17 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 18 | Of 15 ministers dropped from the previous Cabinet , 13 had failed to win seats in the February 1989 elections in which the NRC had been expanded from 98 members to 278 [ see p. 36455 ] . |
| 19 | Improved business optimism , reported in the previous survey , has not been sustained and expectations of rising business volumes were not fulfilled . |
| 20 | This modified strategy was run over the same sets of mid , mixed and phonemic utterances reported in the previous section . |
| 21 | But the most vicious discriminiation had come in the previous year , from Edmund Wilson , who applauded the structure of The Waste Land by contrasting it to ‘ the extremely ill-focused Eight Cantos of his imitator Mr Ezra Pound , who presents only a bewildering mosaic with no central emotion to provide a key ’ . |
| 22 | Power was slipping into the hands of important feudal vassals , and men like the rulers of Hyderabad in the south and of Bengal in the east were emerging with much more power than they had enjoyed in the previous half-century . |
| 23 | Newspaper and magazine graphics are a classic example of this sort of art ; stock illustrations are used over and over again , weather maps for example , but each one is slightly modified from the previous . |
| 24 | Instead of redressing the balance , 3 of the nominated members ( included in the previous 9 ) are farmers . |
| 25 | In Cairnplace Ltd v CBL ( Property Investment ) Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 All ER 315 , it was held that there should not be inserted in a renewal of a lease a provision that the tenant should pay the landlord 's costs despite the fact that there was a similar provision contained in the previous lease . |
| 26 | As would be expected from the previous discussion , the main decline in wage-earning employment came in the ( male-dominated ) industrial sector , while the non-industrial wage-earning category , which includes a substantial majority of women , showed a slight increase . |
| 27 | On the same day the first indication that such dialogue was already under way came with the announcement that evacuation of Armenian and Russian refugees and servicemen 's families from Baku had been suspended after the Popular Front had agreed to guarantee their safety ( more than 30,000 people , including most of Baku 's Armenian community , having already been evacuated in the previous 10 days ) . |
| 28 | In these three areas there is a clear development in the various works considered in the previous chapters , and these different studied build on each other . |
| 29 | These are the loss of the productive , or work role considered in the previous chapter , and the loss of the nurturing , or parenting role . |
| 30 | Your motivation and skills have already been considered in the previous chapters . |