Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter . |
| 2 | In a recent survey of drug injectors in London , 28% ( 138/499 ) reported injecting in the previous six months with syringes previously used by someone else . |
| 3 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 4 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 5 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
| 6 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 7 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 8 | It awaits to be seen whether German social workers will find a way forward beyond the horizon drawn by this Act as they managed to do with the previous Act . |
| 9 | It 's a pure technicality , Mr chairman , but I did ask at the previous meeting er , that the erm , director of property services respond to me on a matter relating to Wootton Bassett magistrate 's court , If we have such a large amount of money that we can spend I think the questions that I posed then , er are relevant and I would appreciate a reply . |
| 10 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 11 | The Chief Officer needed to contribute to this work and to help the Council maintain the influence in higher education it had developed in the previous six years , and to develop public awareness of the Council 's aims and activities . |
| 12 | If you combine these three facts with another , namely that Dennis 's fortieth birthday had fallen on the previous Thursday , an alternative explanation presents itself . |
| 13 | Power was slipping into the hands of important feudal vassals , and men like the rulers of Hyderabad in the south and of Bengal in the east were emerging with much more power than they had enjoyed in the previous half-century . |
| 14 | A Slovak without party affiliation , Ehrenberger replaced Theodor Petrik , who had resigned on the previous day . |
| 15 | Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary . |
| 16 | Those in Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk were to remain but the tutors in Bedfordshire and the Cambridgeshire area were to be withdrawn and there was to be no replacement for the one in Essex who had resigned in the previous year . |
| 17 | But the most vicious discriminiation had come in the previous year , from Edmund Wilson , who applauded the structure of The Waste Land by contrasting it to ‘ the extremely ill-focused Eight Cantos of his imitator Mr Ezra Pound , who presents only a bewildering mosaic with no central emotion to provide a key ’ . |
| 18 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 19 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 20 | The Unity Campaign could hardly avoid the accusation that it was creating a new organization to invite Labour Party members to work together with Communists , which every Labour Conference decision had forbidden over the previous ten years . |
| 21 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 22 | We had met on the previous Wednesday , to discuss business matters . |
| 23 | The exciting promise John had revealed over the previous eighteen months was rewarded by a place on the England tour of Australasia in June 1991 where he demonstrated his capacity to excite the crowd and to bemuse the opposition by featuring prominently in all four matches , thereby staking a claim for a regular inclusion in the national side . |
| 24 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 25 | In the same spirit Athens purified Delos in 426 — as Pisistratus had done in the previous century : control of Delos , the birthplace of Apollo the father of Ion , helped to justify control of Ionia . |
| 26 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
| 27 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 28 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 29 | Raphael ( 1982 ) provides qualitative descriptions of the experiences of thirty-five children aged between two and eight years in twenty families in which either the mother or father had died in the previous two to eight weeks . |
| 30 | No aggression had occurred since the previous session a week earlier . |