Example sentences of "[verb] previously [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't sleep , despite being tired , but sat up into the small hours with an object of study that he 'd previously dismissed as fanciful nonsense : Chant 's final letter . |
| 2 | In term time he spent nearly every weekend with us in London , sleeping in a small room which overlooked the garden , a room which we 'd previously used as a dressing room . |
| 3 | United Brands was established in March 1992 to encompass the separate Barrie and Glenmac companies and the McGeorge and Braemar brands previously managed as part of Pringle . |
| 4 | Two young economists , Fatos Nano and Shkelqim Cani , were appointed Deputy Premiers , the former having been brought into the government in the last reshuffle , in December , as General Secretary of the Council of Ministers ( in which capacity he was now replaced by Aleks Laurasi ) , and the latter having previously served as Director General of the Bank for Foreign Economic Relations . |
| 5 | Do Quoc Sam , 62 , took over as Chair of State Commission for Planning , having previously served as its deputy chair . |
| 6 | Gavin Sharp has started work as the Theos Co-ordinator , having previously worked as an outreach youth worker at Open House in Ivanhoe . |
| 7 | Either way you can make a sale to a customer who otherwise may not be able to buy from you or who you may not have previously considered as a prospect . |
| 8 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 9 | None had previously served as Home Office Ministers , although Lord Thorneycroft had chaired the policy group which had produced Crime Knows No Boundaries in 1966 . |
| 10 | The Ringstrasse was built on a huge tract of open land surrounding the city which had previously served as a military fortification . |
| 11 | Gen. Vieira , who had previously served as a minister for the Azores Islands , replaced the interim Governor , Franciso Murteira Nabo , who had been appointed in September 1990 following the resignation of Carlos Melancia over corruption allegations [ see p. 37714 ] . |
| 12 | He had previously served as Deputy Chairman and as a member of the Central Council ( since 1986 ) . |
| 13 | As well as cutting client prices to $250 and server prices to $1,300 , Univel has bucked up its Personal server Edition with the Windows Merge facility it had previously listed as a $400 add-on product so it can run DOS and Windows 3.0/3.1 applications under Unix . |
| 14 | In response to the confirmation that extradition was now banned by the constitution , the leaders of the Medellín drug cartel , who called themselves the " Extraditables " , stated in a communiqué released on July 5 that they had decided to disband themselves and the cartel 's military structure and were ending all action against those they had previously considered as enemies . |
| 15 | Ken did n't want to think there was any remnant of a woman 's sexual smell on a man he had previously trusted as one of his own . |
| 16 | He wants to use the battle field , which he had previously described as a place of ‘ ungracious clamours ’ , to purge his anger and hurt . |
| 17 | The chief Soviet negotiator Oleg Grinevsky delivered an undertaking that the Soviet Union would adhere to the treaty 's prescribed weapons ceilings , destroying ( with proof ) 6,000 tanks , 1,500 armoured combat vehicles and 7,000 artillery pieces from its stocks east of the Urals , and including as part of its treaty totals three motorized divisions , comprising some 3,700 tanks , artillery and armoured personnel carriers , which it had previously classified as " naval infantry " not subject to the CFE treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 18 | She had previously worked as one of the three founders and directors of the London International Opera Festival . |
| 19 | Approximately half had organised or helped with playgroups and a similar number had previously worked as welfare assistants . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Ian had previously qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 with Downie Wilson & Co . |