Example sentences of "[verb] previously been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ He has previously been a candidate for Sinn Fein in the Assembly elections . |
| 2 | She has previously been a youth worker and trainer in both the statutory and voluntary sectors . |
| 3 | Like Paul of Tarsus , Augustine of Hippo was a convert to Christianity , having previously been a Manichee and then a Neoplatonist like Plotinus . |
| 4 | She joins the company at Olympia Exhibition Centre , having previously been a manager with Roux Restaurants Ltd . |
| 5 | Berisha , a 47-year-old cardiologist , had previously been a member of the SPA , although never holding any important office in the former ruling party . |
| 6 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |
| 7 | He had previously been a minister without portfolio responsible for regional affairs . |
| 8 | Brightman , 13 years younger , had previously been a dancer in the group Hot Gossip , and been squired by a flashy pop-music composer named Mike Moran . |
| 9 | There had previously been a plan for gaslit subway streets through which horse-drawn traffic could pass . |
| 10 | While the election of Paisley was a major blow to the credibility of Chichester-Clark , who might have been better advised to save face by not becoming personally involved in opposing Paisley , William Beattie 's victory in South Antrim was probably more damaging in that Beattie was far less well known , was standing in a more cosmopolitan constituency , and was competing against a man who had previously been a cabinet minister . |
| 11 | The identification of particular EEG/EOG signs with a sleep state in which people are likely to be dreaming made it feasible to answer a number of questions which had previously been a matter for speculation , and which are perennially asked by ordinary people . |
| 12 | What had previously been a zero sum game had suddenly , because of a piece of news from the outside world , become a nonzero sum game . |
| 13 | What had previously been a safety valve for German economic change now assumed the aspect of a threat to an already shaken German identity and sense of purpose in the world . |
| 14 | He had previously been a teacher at the Congregational Church in Dukinfield and was an assistant to the Parliamentary Commissioners of Stockport . |
| 15 | Eight branches ( Bungay , Burgh Castle , Hollesley , Ilketshall St. Lawrence , Kersey , Leiston , Walberswick and Wrentham ) had been founded since the New Year , although the first of these had previously been a Student Group . |
| 16 | Meat consumption had increased by something like a third between 1870 and 1890 , and working-class people had begun to eat fruit , which had previously been a luxury . |
| 17 | What had previously been a two-family , Buddhist hamlet , was now an unsightly army compound . |