Example sentences of "[verb] in the previous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 2 | The Consumer Concerns survey carried out by the National Consumer Council ( NCC ) in 1979–80 revealed a quarter of all respondents encountering problems walking in the previous year , over half of which were considered serious . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. : |
| 5 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 6 | In England and Wales the position is now governed by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , section 78 , the terms of which we encountered in the previous chapter . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Improved business optimism , reported in the previous survey , has not been sustained and expectations of rising business volumes were not fulfilled . |
| 9 | This modified strategy was run over the same sets of mid , mixed and phonemic utterances reported in the previous section . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | A good example , relevant to this book , surfaced in the previous chapter where we discussed ‘ overinclusive thinking ’ as an extreme , clinical , manifestation of divergent thinking . |
| 12 | And , in a fascinating study , Carol Barnes , whose earlier research includes the correlations between ageing , learning and LTP mentioned in the previous paragraph , has allowed rats to live in the type of enriched environment typical of the experiments of Rosenzweig , Bennett and Diamond described in Chapter 6 . |
| 13 | The first way to do this , as I mentioned in the previous chapter , is to underline the punch with a loud shout . |
| 14 | In terms of other help , as I mentioned in the previous chapter , there is the home help service , and there is also meals-on-wheels . |
| 15 | As we mentioned in the previous chapter ( Section 7.1 ) spontaneous speech and written language have many important differences . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Example 2 shows the incident log file for the procedure GENERATE_ROOT_PACKAGE when the errors reported in the previous example ( example 1 ) were corrected . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your motivation and skills have already been considered in the previous chapters . |
| 21 | These are the loss of the productive , or work role considered in the previous chapter , and the loss of the nurturing , or parenting role . |
| 22 | The policy was , therefore , broadly passive per se and the primary issue is its stop/go effect , which was considered in the previous chapter [ Artis , 1978 ; 1981 ; Clower , 1969 ; Croome and Johnson , 1970 ; Goodhart , 1973 ] . |
| 23 | The meanings of these expressions was considered in the previous chapter , and it may be expected that they will be interpreted in essentially the same way in this context . |
| 24 | The various proposals considered in the previous section were presented as if they were additions to the tripartite analysis , it being admitted that Gettier had shown that analysis to be insufficient . |
| 25 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 26 | this prompted me to speculate not so much on what might be deployed in order to ask different questions from those addressed in the previous galleries . |
| 27 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 28 | The religious or mystical order clearly supports the secular establishment , rather than opposing it as in some of the spirit possession cults we reviewed in the previous chapter . |
| 29 | The most significant thing about each phenomenon presented in the previous pages is not the nature of the phenomenon itself , but the underpinning — the workings of the consciousness of those who gave birth to such realities and their regard for consciousness as the primary concern in the adventure of life itself , as everything proceeds from it . |
| 30 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |