Example sentences of "[noun prp] had previously [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rumours were further fuelled by a general statement Conran had previously made about the responsibilities of a group chairman when talking to a journalist . |
| 2 | Open enrolment provisions , which remove the limits some LEAs had previously put on schools in their area , demand that all maintained schools accept pupils up to the limit of their physical capacity . |
| 3 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 4 | Whereas , however , the Krakatoa eruption was the first for two centuries , Mt Pelee had previously erupted within the living memory of some of the older residents of St Pierre ; a mild affair in 1851 which did little apart from sprinkling a bit of ash about . |
| 5 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 6 | Rose had previously worked with the programme 's host Des O'Connor and also with comic Mike Reid . |
| 7 | Redford had previously turned down Nichols 's offer to play Nick ( eventually taken by George Segal ) in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? the year before . |
| 8 | The judges handed the Tobacco Institute of Australia something of a pyrrhic victory when they said they would set aside Justice Morling 's injunction on the further publication of the advertisement on the legalistic basis that the Tobacco Institute of Australia had previously indicated to the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations that it would not republish the advertisement anyway . |
| 9 | Sally had previously worked in the sales department of a large food manufacturing company . |
| 10 | Spokes volunteers and EGBT had previously collaborated on a very successful project , the upgrading of Donkey Lane in Currie , in 1991 . |
| 11 | Ian had previously qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 with Downie Wilson & Co . |
| 12 | All the loose women Sally-Anne had previously met in both English and American society had been particularly lovely and tempting creatures , not gross and depressed objects who looked like unmade beds — as Rose 's ma did . |
| 13 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger had previously worked on original scripts ; this was the first of four novel adaptations , of which The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the only one in black and white , was paradoxically the best , though they were the supreme colour artists of British cinema in the 1940s and '50s . |