Example sentences of "of the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a difficulty with Jenny , of a kind that came with the innocent of the previous novel . |
| 2 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 3 | During the final year of office of the previous Director , Ralph Youngman , Charles had given a series of public lectures at the school on Canaletto . |
| 4 | On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight . |
| 5 | And at this point when a range of established values were under scrutiny , the body was made to carry a new symbolic load which reflected the change from the social conformity of the previous decades . |
| 6 | Since the busy fencings and ditchings of the previous thirty years , the men who farmed the best land had flourished all the more ; they could afford the rents for the greater acreage under the plough . |
| 7 | The decline was finally arrested in 1984 ; in the next four years the losses of the previous fourteen were made good ! |
| 8 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 9 | Like the others , Mr Minnah was of the Mende tribe , and an associate of the previous president , Dr Siaka Stevens . |
| 10 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 11 | The known number of HIV positive cases was 11,218 at the end of September , 424 more than the cumulative total at the end of the previous quarter . |
| 12 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 13 | In the last week of the previous October Michael stayed in Cambridge . |
| 14 | Denmark has made cuts in employment and sickness benefits and France required hospital patients to contribute towards non-medical services and uprated welfare benefits in line with current inflation rather than the higher level of the previous year . |
| 15 | On one level My Dress … is a coda to Self-Portrait on the Borderline ( 1932 ) ( Fig. 11 ) of the previous year . |
| 16 | But of equal interest must be the 5ins longer wheelbase , Z1-style rear suspension and new 24-valve twin-cam version of the previous model 's 2.5-litre straight six . |
| 17 | On a more positive note , the new car covers ground with a sense of stability and security all drivers should appreciate and drivers of the previous 325i could only dream about . |
| 18 | Gone is the rather conservative ‘ up-and-down ’ architecture of the previous model 's facia , replaced by a full-blown exposition of the currently fashionable ( especially with the Japanese ) organic look with its attendant curves and soft edges . |
| 19 | Front-end bite and turn-in are very good , and grip is excellent , but the adjustable cornering balance of the previous 3-series has been lost in pursuit of a more stable , secure chassis . |
| 20 | Gone is the ‘ up-and-down ’ look of the previous 3-series in favour of a fashionably organic style . |
| 21 | Such precepts , according to one senior officer , were in the context of the previous 150 years of the Metropolitan Police , ‘ simply astonishing ’ . |
| 22 | It emerges at the foot of Eglwyseg Mountain , a wild-looking spot described by my host of the previous night as ‘ Injun country ’ . |
| 23 | Each round was a photocopy of the previous one , Duran edging forward , Leonard moving backwards and the space between them constant . |
| 24 | Nobody has forgotten the rapid descent into currency chaos , rampant inflation and food riots which greeted a short-lived move to decontrol prices and foreign exchanges during the closing stages of the previous government last spring . |
| 25 | The Korean War , and more particularly the fear of a major Soviet offensive of some kind in Europe in 1953 , which killed the Ten-Year Rule , led to crash production programmes at the expense of the previous policy of giving priority to research and development . |
| 26 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 27 | between persons who , by reason of the previous marriage of one of them , are related in a way corresponding to one of the relationships above mentioned . |
| 28 | The ideal of land registration is that a government office , after investigating the title , enters the applicant upon the register as owner , and furnishes him with a certificate in accordance with the entry ; the entry is conclusive as to his right , and no further investigation of the previous title can subsequently be necessary . |
| 29 | When England batted , Gooch was given out caught behind and it seemed to dispirit his team-mates ; without their hero of the previous game they looked lost , and folded for 114 all out . |
| 30 | The post of Chancellor of the Exchequer went to one of the most junior members of the previous Cabinet , the Energy Secretary Nigel Lawson . |