Example sentences of "never previously [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By means of an unprecedented policy of increasing its manufacturing efficiency through technology , and putting pressure on South Asia to export raw cotton , a trade which it had never previously engaged in , at the expense of calico , which was subject to high import duties , Britain was able to turn the tide against India , and later to flood that area with cheap cotton goods . |
| 2 | I believe that support this and I 've already seen in my own district to traffic calming which never previously existed . |
| 3 | The fruit is the enlargement of Magritte 's known oeuvre by as many as 200 works , never previously illustrated , which Sylvester and his team have recovered from private collections , and a serious attempt to unravel that most taxing issue of the existence of different versions of the same composition and of different images which carry the same title . |
| 4 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 5 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 6 | After the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of the Communist International in 1919 , most British Marxists were put into a situation which had never previously existed for any part of the British labour movement . |
| 7 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 8 | In recent years exhibitions of English watercolours have also refreshed parts of the world never previously reached by this most British of mediums . |
| 9 | It will include private pictures never seen before — some of them shown exclusively here — sound tapes never previously heard in public and shots taken from 30 hours of film footage from Elvis 's home movies , showing him in intimate off-duty moments . |
| 10 | In modern linguistics , we are often told of our remarkable ability to construct meaningful sentences which we have never previously heard ; yet this is surely matched by our ability to absorb the social implications of an array of furnishing consisting of a combination which is not only almost certainly in some degree unique , but some of whose basic elements may also be new to us . |
| 11 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 12 | The team have also discovered six species of fly never previously recorded in Britain and more than 100 other species of invertebrates including beetles , plant bugs and spiders never before found in Wales from the study of 120 peatland sites . |
| 13 | Such identification of the elements of Q with those of Q is in exactly the same spirit as the identification of the elements of Z with certain elements of Q ( see Fig. 1.2 ) , an identification to which you 've probably never previously given much thought . |
| 14 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 15 | The event is a watershed , because it shows a degree of commitment to wide screen TV from BSkyB never previously seen . |
| 16 | Daly achieved instant super-stardom when , as ninth reserve and without a caddie , he got into the 1991 US PGA Championship at the last minute , and played like a God for four days on a course he 'd never previously seen to win it . |
| 17 | Many of Indonesia 's peoples , for instance , who have never previously seen Europeans , grow very little body hair , and all of it straight . |
| 18 | NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open . |
| 19 | These snapshots , never previously exhibited , cover the period from Big Shot in 1971 until the final months of his life . |
| 20 | A naturally shy man , who does n't boast about his achievements , and had never previously agreed to any magazine interview , Zarei will not say who the winning runner was , and is reluctant to talk about the times he has put sportsmanship before victory , unless his motives are misinterpreted . |
| 21 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 22 | Democrats also responded with incredulity when Thomas justified his refusal to comment on Roe v. Wade on the grounds that he had never previously discussed this historically significant decision during his entire legal career . |
| 23 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 24 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 25 | Finally , there have been some striking public successes , notably in the highly effective campaigns to defend the political levy , which have even produced ballot results in favour of political funds in unions like the Hosiery and Knitwear Workers or the Inland Revenue Staffs Federation which have never previously had them . |
| 26 | From Channel 4 's inception , he has encouraged talents that never previously found a place within the mainstream television , in particular through the workshop movement , but also on an international scale through regular features and documentaries from the Third World . |
| 27 | And by combining them with aerobics , you can achieve even greater success — in fact , a fitness level and a beautiful body which you never previously dreamed of being able to attain . |
| 28 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 29 | He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic . |
| 30 | In that case an advertising agency telephoned a transparency library with whom the agency had never previously dealt . |