Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] previous [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the gesture which leading Sikhs had pleaded in vain for the previous Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , to make . |
| 2 | This was the gesture which leading Sikhs had pleaded in vain for the previous Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , to make . |
| 3 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 4 | Although Lineker has just turned 32 , he quit the English game last summer — having made his intention clear for the previous seven months . |
| 5 | The Annual Report for 1904–5 of the STA suggests that trade had been exceptionally busy for the previous few years . |
| 6 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |