Example sentences of "[vb past] previously been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , as the research on the course of schizophrenia described in chapter 5 showed , a high level of criticism and overinvolvement expressed by the key close relative in the home increased the likelihood that a person who had previously been treated for schizophrenia would suffer an acute relapse of florid symptoms . |
| 2 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 3 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
| 4 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 5 | The National Dairy Council had previously been criticised for a campaign suggesting that milk could protect children 's teeth from decay , but a claim that the vitamin A in milk improved night vision was permitted . |