Example sentences of "had previously be [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 More important what had previously been a low-visibility discretionary payment overnight turned into highly visible as-of-right entitlement .
2 He had previously been a junior minister at the Department of Energy and financial secretary to the Treasury .
3 As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity :
4 The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise .
5 To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market .
6 And she went on to explain to him how they would now have to hasten what had previously been a very leisure long-term affair , at least in her mind .
7 The bright tangle of plants had become a funereal monochrome , and there was a dullness where there had previously been a dazzling glimpse of the Mediterranean .
8 The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man .
9 As a result of these mixed forces the resistance movements that had previously been the exclusive domain of irresolute Annamese intellectuals began , as the decade drew to a close , to stir the mass of the people toiling in the rice fields , the mines arid the rubber plantations .
10 Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , up to 50 km long and intended primarily for catching tuna , squid and pink salmon , but fiercely criticized by environmentalists as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of marine mammals and other sea creatures .
11 Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , which have been criticized as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of dolphins , whales and other sea creatures .
12 Yet what had previously been an alternative tendency within the general social order , and in some respects a central tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , was now , in this crisis , shifted into an oppositional tendency .
13 On April 30 Namibia was also formally admitted as a full member of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , of which it had previously been an associate member .
14 It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction .
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