Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particular examples of speed problems were given in the previous part of this section . |
| 2 | These activities are considered in the context of the two models of policy making — the rational model and the incremental model — which were examined in the previous chapter . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 4 | The costs were provided in the previous year with the exception of a £1.1 million write down in the value of the Dumfries building charged in 1992/93 . |
| 5 | The defects of the present set-up were inherited from the previous regime and those who see Prean 's point of view and are aware of the dissatisfaction of many players at the way in which computer points are calculated had already been planning a more advanced system . |
| 6 | The poles , , of the Laplace transform of the current in a series resonant circuit subjected to a step e.m.f. , which were deduced in the previous section , exhibit interesting behaviour . |
| 7 | The needs of the user groups of these two divisions were discussed in the previous chapter . |
| 8 | These trends have reinforced the already closer contact between farmers and their workers brought about by mechanization and the declining size of the labour force which were discussed in the previous chapter . |
| 9 | The most important grammatical formalisms were discussed in the previous chapter . |
| 10 | The Dhofaris who were neglected by the previous ruler are now enjoying the fruits of extensive agricultural development , so that the region once famed for providing the ancient world with frankincense may soon be a major source of food for other Gulf states . |
| 11 | And we built that , a feeling of trust , rather than you know , apprehension or misapprehension er in the minds of people who were engaged on the previous scheme . |
| 12 | Your conservatory collapses as a result of negligence of the professionals who were engaged by the previous owner to put it up . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although pancreatic weight , DNA , RNA , and protein contents were analysed in the previous study , results of simultaneous investigations of morphology , morphometry , autoradiography , and DNA flow cytometry were not included . |
| 14 | The cubs , of course , were fathered by the previous males , and are no loss to the new owners . |
| 15 | ‘ Push ’ factors refer to the difficulties of earning a living that were described in the previous chapter . |
| 16 | This is particularly the case for individuals working in the kind of formal organisations that were described in the previous two chapters . |
| 17 | We are given The value for , was calculated in the previous example as The standard enthalpy of combustion of methane is given in table 5.2 as |
| 18 | Another problem , and one that was intimated in the previous paragraph , is the question of who is to be considered accountable to whom . |
| 19 | The Regional Council was consulted on the previous supermarket application and may be consulted by the District Council on the present proposal , although this is not certain as I believe it is about half the size of the earlier application . |
| 20 | As was explained in the previous chapter , the architecture of upper-class housing itself became increasingly divisive . |
| 21 | Directing visual input to a single hemisphere of the brain by flashing a stimulus to one side of a central fixation point was explained in the previous chapter . |
| 22 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 23 | The policy was , therefore , broadly passive per se and the primary issue is its stop/go effect , which was considered in the previous chapter [ Artis , 1978 ; 1981 ; Clower , 1969 ; Croome and Johnson , 1970 ; Goodhart , 1973 ] . |
| 24 | The meanings of these expressions was considered in the previous chapter , and it may be expected that they will be interpreted in essentially the same way in this context . |
| 25 | By 1914 the number of Chinese boarding houses was reckoned over the previous few years to have increased by stages from 13 to 300 to 400 . |
| 26 | And as far as I can see , the only reason for an eight year average is because that was accepted by the previous panel . |
| 27 | ‘ But he was injured on the previous occasion ? ’ |
| 28 | As was seen in the previous section , the legal ingredients of the offence were successively whittled away so that public alarm became of relative insignificance , although the offence was apt to be charged in cases of group disorder . |
| 29 | I have great misgivings about what was done by the previous Labour Government . |
| 30 | So what was said under the previous heading needs to be counter-balanced . |