Example sentences of "[art] previous [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First there are infective larvae which developed during the previous grazing season and have survived on pasture over winter . |
| 2 | Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest . |
| 3 | On April 24 the Republican former Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini was finally re-elected president of the Senate , and in the lower house Nilde Iotti , of the PDS , who had led the house for most of the previous 13 years , was replaced by a Christian Democrat , Oscar Luigi Scalfaro . |
| 4 | Chris Smith , Labour 's Shadow Environment Secretary believed the country 's problem came not from the last few weeks , but the previous 13 years . |
| 5 | Vulcanologists said Mayon had erupted 26 times during yesterday 's 11 daylight hours — well up on the 15 eruptions in the previous 13 hours . |
| 6 | This was the gesture which leading Sikhs had pleaded in vain for the previous Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , to make . |
| 7 | This was the gesture which leading Sikhs had pleaded in vain for the previous Prime Minister , Mr Rajiv Gandhi , to make . |
| 8 | Mr Willi Stoph , the previous prime minister ; General Erich Mielke , former head of the Stasi secret police ; and two less prominent figures , Mr Gunther Kleiber and Mr Werner Krolikowski , completed the list of arrests . |
| 9 | Mr Gandhi 's manoeuvrings — which included four visits to the president , who can dissolve parliament — appear to have been designed to lure supporters from Mr Shekhar and from the previous prime minister , V.P. Singh . |
| 10 | I am sorry that I so rattled the Prime Minister with my question at the previous Prime Minister 's Question Time that he has not come to the House today . |
| 11 | Maintaining the previous Prime Minister 's attitude to the selection of senior civil servants — ’ Is he one of ours ? ’ — will lead to the politicisation of the civil service at the top level , and I believe that that has happened . |
| 12 | He has been a member of every Conservative Cabinet since 1970 , despite the fact that , by his own testimony , he is strongly against monetarism , non-interventionism , the high interest rate policy , the poll tax , the European Community policy of the previous Prime Minister and , last but not least , the promotion of hospital opt-outs . |
| 13 | The previous Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley , said that she was ’ thrilled ’ by the Prime Minister 's success at Maastricht . |
| 14 | If the Government are not prepared to tolerate a situation of continuing violence six years after the previous Prime Minister first uttered those words , let them forsake that which has failed . |
| 15 | It is 20 years since the previous Prime Minister , when she was Secretary of State for Education , promised universal nursery education for all three to five-year-olds whose parents desired it . |
| 16 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 17 | Among them was Abdelaziz Bouteflika , who had served as Foreign Minister for 16 years , Belaid Abdessalam , a former Energy Minister who had publicly criticized Chadli 's energy policy , and Kasdi Merbah , the previous Prime Minister . |
| 18 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 19 | The decline was finally arrested in 1984 ; in the next four years the losses of the previous fourteen were made good ! |
| 20 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 21 | The topic returns to the forefront of attention in the final chapter , in which I discuss the very possibility of the enterprise I have been engaged in for the previous fourteen . |
| 22 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 23 | The following day Charlie 's section of ten began to wish that he had n't spent the previous fourteen years of his life visiting the early morning market . |
| 24 | The two main obstacles to the normalization of relations were identified as Japan 's demand that North Korea allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , and North Korea 's insistence on compensation for alleged Japanese hostility over the previous 70 years . |
| 25 | Duchy retained all the staff employed at the time of the takeover , with the exception of the previous General Manager , who preferred to retire . |
| 26 | The hotel had not participated in any formal training scheme , nor accepted industrial release students , nor recruited graduates : the previous General Manager having held the view that the only worthwhile training was a lengthy apprenticeship within the industry . |
| 27 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 28 | Elections were due by May 1992 at the latest , the previous general election having been held in June 1987 [ see p. 35586 ] . |
| 29 | If you compare The Smiths with the previous Great White Hopes of preceding eras , it 's clear that the rebellion of the Stones , Who , Pistols , jam , was based in some kind of activism or at least action , an optimism about the potential of collective or individual agency . |
| 30 | Stalin wanted Germany permanently crippled and partitioned , with massive reparations , but with the knowledge of what happened following the previous Great War , the others disagreed . |