Example sentences of "[prep] the previous [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |
| 2 | Two weeks ago Randalstown lost to Old Alexandra in the All Ireland Cup , but that was due to fatigue as the previous weekend they had been involved in the European Indoor Club Championship . |
| 3 | Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover . |
| 4 | From the humble beginnings of the previous year you flew the first great test of concept of long-range strategic bombardment . |
| 5 | In the light of the previous discussion we would be concerned with the extent to which professionals have their own sub-culture which is distinct from the organisational culture as a whole . |
| 6 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |
| 7 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the inception of the previous chapter it was said that all grants of power to public bodies could be broken down into two parts : if X exists , you may or shall do Y. |
| 10 | Throughout the previous Lectures we have stressed the importance of the assumptions made concerning the structure of the economy . |
| 11 | Like the previous species it grows to about 20cm in the wild , but is more likely to attain half this size in captivity . |
| 12 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 13 | As with the previous study it is anticipated that the project will generate findings that can be used by various government departments and other public bodies to address issues of policy . |
| 14 | ‘ With the previous pans we used you had 22lbs of chips ready at one time and about half way through you tended to lose the quality because some of the chips would get sweaty . |
| 15 | Under the previous organisation it would have taken months of internal wrangling to resolve the conflicting aspirations of regionally based management . |
| 16 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 17 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 18 | In the previous exercise you may have discovered that social class V had between 150 and 250 per cent as many stillbirths as social class I. Using Minitab instruction IRAN , create a column of random data in the range 150 to 250 . |
| 19 | In the previous sections we voiced a scepticism of the basic assumptions of the two most important systematic attempts to explain legal systems from within , that is , positivism and natural law . |
| 20 | In this case , however , methodological issues are tackled from a largely user standpoint , whereas in the previous part they were viewed as substantive problems in their own right . |
| 21 | But first , in looking at the history of classical principles in the previous chapters I have left loose ends untied and contradictions unresolved . |
| 22 | Why , because I have , in the previous discussion we 've just had , I emphasised the limits on presidential power , on direction . |
| 23 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 24 | In the previous subsection I distinguished invention from learning by stressing the extent to which the former involves internal processes of thinking and working out solutions to problems . |
| 25 | In the previous half-century it could not have been more than a million and a half in all . |
| 26 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 27 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 28 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |
| 29 | In the previous chapter we looked at crime and criminality in a very broad and general manner . |
| 30 | In the previous chapter we examined the strand of thinking and policy development that is centred on co-ordination . |