Example sentences of "[subord] [art] previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where the previous emphasis was on realism , the new approach emphasized fantasy and knowing nods to the audience . |
| 2 | However , although the first part is quiet , the quietness is deadly — it is the still of a battlefield after a battle — the sort of picture you have is one of a film of war where the previous scene has been fast , tense and confusing with loud , dramatic music and scenes of battle and suddenly everything becomes quiet as the camera moves slowly over a battle field strewn with bodies — this is the sort of stillness of these lines — the stillness of death . |
| 3 | Where the previous Court of Appeal decision was reached per incuriam . |
| 4 | By 1897 Dawson City had grown up where no previous settlement existed . |
| 5 | Where a previous Court of Appeal decision can not be said to be in line with the House of Lords ' authority on the same subject . |
| 6 | Out-patient visits were 8 per cent higher than the previous year . |
| 7 | In those four boroughs where no one party had overall control there was a much more pronounced rise in Labour support , with the party 's share of the vote in Wirral increasing by over 8% despite an individual poll tax figure below government estimates and average household bills less than the previous year 's rates . |
| 8 | There were no records broken that day , the winner taking fourteen minutes twenty seconds to cover the course , over a minute slower than the previous year 's winner . |
| 9 | The British were clearly a much happier group than the previous year , not least because Annewanter has a great deal of experience with smaller teams . |
| 10 | While sales revenues dropped to IR£273.6 million ( 1991 : IR£292.1 million ) , overall volume substantially held up , a creditable performance in a year when most of the Group 's major markets were in recession Financing costs at IR£7.7 million ( 1991 : IR£6.5 million ) reflect higher average debt over the period The taxation charge at IR£2 million was lower than the previous year due to lower profits in high tax jurisdictions . |
| 11 | A tightening labour market , coupled with higher productivity growth , was reflected in higher wage settlements ( in the first quarter of 1989 wages increased by an average 5.2 per cent — one point higher than the previous year ) , with the accompanying risk of an increase in the inflation rate . |
| 12 | The deficit was subsequently reduced to IR1,430,000 million , still 19 per cent higher than the previous year . |
| 13 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 14 | The investment and equipment budget , at 129,578,000 million francs CFA , was projected at 10.6 per cent less than the previous year . |
| 15 | Debt servicing was allocated R2,700 million , 27 per cent more than the previous year . |
| 16 | The package , worth 6 per cent more than the previous year 's assistance , went a long way towards the $9,200 million required by India to meet an expected current-account deficit of $6,000 million and debt repayments of $3,200 million . |
| 17 | Defence spending was planned to rise by 5.1 per cent , the lowest percentage rise since 1960 , and a whole percentage point lower than the previous year 's increase . |
| 18 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 19 | Recorded crime fell in eight police force areas the rate of increase in violent crime was significantly lower than the previous year and the rise in reported thefts was the smallest for four years . |
| 20 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 21 | Yellow metal spent the majority of this 12 month period locked in a narrow range between $329 and $352 and the average of $338 was $19 lower than the previous year . |
| 22 | In Spain , conditions have been extremely difficult with the beer market in significant decline due to economic circumstances ; as a result volumes overall were lower than the previous year . |
| 23 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 24 | The institute found that the global average temperature , although cooler than the previous year , was still well above the average from 1951 to 1980 and in line with values for the 1980s . |
| 25 | The group predicted the poor trading conditions would continue with full-year profits in the division likely to be significantly lower than the previous year . |
| 26 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
| 27 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 28 | We have indications that black people have , over the past 30 years , become more present in the criminal statistics than the previous generation , reaching a level with , and in some categories , exceeding the indigenous population . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 30 | Borland International Inc is ready with a new release of its dBase IV database management system for MS-DOS and will announce the release of a MS-DOS compiler for dBase for the end of the month ; according to US PC Week , dBase IV 2.0 is designed to run up to 10 times faster than the previous release and the compiler will enable developers to create dBase III , dBase III Plus and dBase IV executable files that can be distributed to end users . |