Example sentences of "in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 2 | Naipaul 's Caribbean country has been looted and exploited in the past , and it is still being looted and exploited . |
| 3 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 4 | Then there is the woman question , which arises in the novel in a fashion which sets us wondering , as in the past and as in the case of the above encounter , which parts of the bad behaviour on display Amis quite or largely likes . |
| 5 | Perhaps certain parts played in the past have not succeeded , and it may be possible to investigate why . |
| 6 | It is clear that in the past many of them have considered loyalty to be a two-way process , a contract or covenant , and that the state could be a traitorous party as well as the people . |
| 7 | There has , therefore , been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups . |
| 8 | After the account of creation and redemption , which despite the variance among intellectual accounts in the past probably has slightly less relevance as a divider at the popular level , the two main variants begin ( for popular accounts , see Harris 1972 ; Leyton 1975 ) . |
| 9 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 10 | The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well . |
| 11 | As though now I know it will get done it is already in the past . |
| 12 | In the past , this was one of the most abused red wines around . |
| 13 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 14 | She 's only been here two weekends , and none of us had worked for her in the past … |
| 15 | I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place . |
| 16 | What exactly he told her I do n't know , but that 's all in the past now . ’ |
| 17 | In the past there have been a number of problems with spin recoveries with light aircraft . |
| 18 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |
| 19 | In the past it was thought that the chance of having a glider struck by lightning in cloud was negligible . |
| 20 | Pelvic infection It is particularly important to tell your doctor about any pelvic infections , ‘ salpingitis ’ or sexually transmitted disease you have had in the past , as this may affect the choice of contraceptive method for you . |
| 21 | In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography . |
| 22 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
| 23 | IN THE PAST : THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE |
| 24 | Communitas is of the now ; structure is rooted in the past and extends into the future through language , law and custom . |
| 25 | ‘ The opponent block ’ applies to elite performers who , in the past , have repeatedly drawn and lost to a particular opponent . |
| 26 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 27 | There have been better hold-down devices of a home-made nature in Woodworker in the past — the best of them doubtless designed after some careful thoughts about an acceptable specification . |
| 28 | In the past , some purists have said that all surface decoration applied to designed objects — all ornament , in other words — must be based on motifs which look flat , ie. they must not be drawn with a third dimension : you are allowed to make a pattern out of squares , so to speak , but not cubes . |
| 29 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 30 | The LVA claim that pubs converted to management in Winchester in the past have seen a rapid turnover of staff and a substantial decline in trade . |