Example sentences of "[conj] had previously been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demonstrated that the validity of verbal , numerical and reasoning aptitude tests can be generalised far more widely across occupations than had previously been realised . |
| 2 | This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs . |
| 3 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | Wonderfully bizarre , compared to the local species , they seemed to symbolize a sudden awakening from the drab monotones of medieval Christianity to a much richer world than had previously been imagined . |
| 5 | A recent land survey of Boiotia reveals a much higher density of settlement and population than had previously been suspected , cp. below p. 84 for this ; why not help ourselves , the Athenians must have said , to some of that good soil — cheaper and less dangerous than planting colonies in Thrace where they might be and sometimes were overwhelmed by the natives . |
| 6 | They showed that disputes between the males were some what commoner than had previously been reported . |
| 7 | And yet , since the start of May , there has been reason to think it would have been less bloody than had previously been feared . |
| 8 | The subject matter indicates closer links between Aegean civilisation and Egypt than had previously been known . |
| 9 | A 10-year study by the US National Acid Precipitation Assessment Programme published in mid-January 1991 concluded that acid rain had done far less damage to the nation 's lake and forests than had previously been thought . |
| 10 | We found indications that homophonic phrases were more of a problem than had previously been thought . |
| 11 | One of the most exciting suggestions to emerge from the research of the Schools Council History project , and in later research into primary history teaching methods , has been the idea that certain , concept-based methods of History teaching can lead to pupils reaching certain levels of historical understanding at a rather earlier stage than had previously been thought possible . |
| 12 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 13 | Well we discovered that there were some compounds in interstellar space that we were really rather more complicated than had previously been thought possible , and these molecules had infeasible prebiotic species , in that there were very simple reactions that could take place that would allow them to form amino acids and other rather intriguing biological molecules . |
| 14 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 15 | This , in conjunction with concomitant improvements in stage-coaching , enabled many more citizens to embark , with only moderate discomfort , on much longer journeys than had previously been considered . |
| 16 | Also in the 1930s and 1940s , as has been argued in the last chapter , such scholars as Lazarsfeld , Thurstone , Likert , Stouffer and Guttman had begun to develop a quite different approach to attitudes than had previously been considered . |
| 17 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 18 | When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed . |
| 19 | More recent histopathological and microvascular studies suggest that vascular involvement may occur at an earlier stage and play a more important role in the disease process than had previously been supposed . |
| 20 | This rule was brought into being following the judgment of Megarry J. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Ian Cameron Wallace Ltd. [ 1983 ] Ch. 59 and substituted ‘ the standard basis ’ and the ‘ indemnity basis ’ of taxation for the party and party , solicitor and own client , indemnity and other bases that had previously been employed . |
| 21 | Conclusions about the functions of one hemisphere that had previously been based on observations of the effects of injury could be confirmed by studies that showed that the self-same functions were retained by that hemisphere after section of the callosum , but were not available to the other . |
| 22 | It meant that that summer , despite the pressure of finals , I was able to enjoy human company and gain succour from it , in a way that had previously been denied to me . |
| 23 | The pool of enriched BL-29 polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) products was used as a probe to hybridize to filters of the cosmid clones that had previously been isolated with YAC clone y178–3 . |
| 24 | At the end of the war , under communist control , Yugoslavia became a federation , and Serbia lost not only its dominant position but also large areas that had previously been regarded as part of its territory . |
| 25 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 26 | This was to be achieved partly by diversifying exports , but more significantly by creating local industries to manufacture goods that had previously been imported . |
| 27 | The universal franchise and freedom for all political parties saw the development of mass support for socialist and communist parties that had previously been suppressed . |
| 28 | Lowland fear of the Highland Scots was another powerful motive for Union , but the effect was to give eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotsmen opportunities in the British Empire that had previously been closed to them . |
| 29 | He then proceeded to identify a periglacial cycle which went beyond a relationship between climate and process and attracted some of the criticisms that had previously been levelled at the Davisian ‘ normal ’ cycle . |
| 30 | Minas Gerais , for example , wanted to gain some of the job-creating benefits of playing host to foreigners that had previously been concentrated around Sao Paolo , and did a deal with Fiat ; Parana acted similarly with Volvo . |