Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter . |
| 3 | 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence . |
| 4 | Product D is a growth performer in the overseas markets but its performance in the home market has declined from the previous year . |
| 5 | Qly Ab Return ; quarterly abnormal return ( per cent ) , this represents the difference between what the share might have been expected to earn over the previous quarter given its beta value and the risk free rate of return , and the return of the market over the same period ( ; where the expected return is equal to ) . |
| 6 | In a recent survey of drug injectors in London , 28% ( 138/499 ) reported injecting in the previous six months with syringes previously used by someone else . |
| 7 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All the claims from Strathclyde and other offices will be properly decided according to the previous arrangements . |
| 10 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
| 11 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 12 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 13 | I know that LEDU does a good job through its local enterprise development programmes , but will the hon. Gentleman consider returning to the previous policy ? |
| 14 | Also we have which can be used to replace in the previous equation : Multiplying both sides by sin 3 i gives which is a quantity known to astronomers as the mass function . |
| 15 | If you carry on I 'll show you the situation worsens as we 've attempted Carrying on on the seventh floor , all the , all the other gangs are still employed working in the previous area . |
| 16 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 17 | She thought I must have died in the previous night 's snowstorm . |
| 18 | It may well be that he could be described as a statutory tenant ; but that description would not itself accurately define his precise position , for he was a statutory tenant against whom a final order had been made , under which possession was to be delivered up on a fixed date , 3 April 1950 , he having died on the previous 8 March . |
| 19 | In her inaugural address Chamorro announced an end to military conscription ; plans to reduce state bureaucracy , strength of the Army and the size of the defence budgets ; the recognition of titles to land redistributed under the previous Sandinista government ; and a thorough review of economic policy . |
| 20 | Having played in the previous winning Eisenhower Trophy team with distinction I think he can feel hard done by . |
| 21 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 22 | And so Thomas Hardy returned to his house at Max Gate to continue work on his last grim novel Jude the Obscure , Tess having appeared in the previous year . |
| 23 | It awaits to be seen whether German social workers will find a way forward beyond the horizon drawn by this Act as they managed to do with the previous Act . |
| 24 | Winners were Boccara/Boucherit , a good French win to contrast with the previous race . |
| 25 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 26 | Keep a record of how you spend your time and what you 've managed to get done during the previous week . |
| 27 | Maori mothers were significantly more likely to have smoked in the previous two weeks than non-Maori mothers ( χ 2 =201 , df=3 , p<0.001 ) ( table IV ) . |
| 28 | Both the 1985 GHS ( Green , 1988 ) and McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study of the invalid care allowance ( ICA ) found that women who had ceased to care within the previous twelve months were less likely to be in employment than their non-carer peers . |
| 29 | As Table 10.1 indicates , this is an example of an attempt to implement the rational model of decision making discussed in the previous chapter . |
| 30 | Programmes are now being directed towards preventing relapse in a smoking population that is increasingly composed of people who have tried several times to stop : among smokers surveyed in 1990 , 42% reported having tried to stop in the previous year ( unpublished data , Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer ) . |