Example sentences of "previously [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | suddenly , musicians can be working with engineers , producers and a whole host of technical equipment which previously had been the stuff of their dreams . |
| 2 | The scheme was innovatory in providing housing at controlled rents in a converted building on a spectacular riverside site , something which previously had been regarded as the preserve of affluent owner occupiers . |
| 3 | In addition , the Rayner review of the service introduced not only cuts but a new philosophy that official figures , which previously had been for the service of the nation as a whole , were now to be tied far more closely to the requirements of the government of the day . |
| 4 | It is notable that he does not see himself abandoning epistemology , but as continuing it , doing it better than it previously had been done . |
| 5 | Thus the experience of the Boer War combined with fears about the British economy to produce a demand for state and voluntary welfare measures designed to increase ‘ national efficiency ’ , in the contemporary phrase , among influential social groups who previously had been hostile or indifferent to social issues . |
| 6 | For example , greater capital mobility has permitted many governments , for good or ill , to initiate development projects that previously had been starved by capital shortage and has helped raise the levels of ambition for future competitiveness and importance on the world stage . |
| 7 | Sometimes , new entrants can come from ‘ latecomer ’ countries that previously had been excluded from the industry . |
| 8 | Certain concepts , which previously had been connected only with the king , were universalised and became applicable to everyone . |
| 9 | At the more local level there has also been a marked shift away from major urban areas towards areas which previously had been less industrialized . |
| 10 | He argued that the economic , political , ethical , legal , aesthetic , and erotic value spheres , which previously had been structured according to a unifying principle of the world religions and later of Enlightenment rationalism , now began to march to the beat of different drums ( Whimster and Lash 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Alone of the 15 union republics , the Russian Federation previously had been without its own Communist Party , its party organizations being an integral part of the CPSU . |
| 12 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |