Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] by [art] previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 2 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 3 | The girl 's wish to be adopted while maintaining contact with her brother had been refused by a previous High Appeal court ruling . |
| 4 | Contrary to what had been suggested by a previous report , the SeHCAT test may thus be of value also in cholecystectomised patients . |
| 5 | One indication of the effect produced by Boulestin 's recipes is that whenever a second-hand copy of one of his books turns up — and that is not often — one finds it scarred with pencil marks against the recipes which have been cooked by the previous owner and often , slipped somewhere among the pages , a list of dishes noted for future trial . |
| 6 | I have been told by the previous owner that he filled the hubs with grease instead of oil . |