Example sentences of "[pron] had previously be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had previously been successful in negotiating a settlement between the Boulting brothers and Elvin 's union , where I had enjoyed establishing a warm and friendly relationship With both sides . |
| 2 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |
| 3 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |
| 4 | French-style café-bars have been a runaway success over here because they address a market which had previously been actively excluded by the ‘ pub tradition ’ — namely women . |
| 5 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
| 6 | It surfaced , for example , in the suggestion that museums and art galleries , which had previously been open to the public free of charge , should begin to charge for admission . |
| 7 | It could mean the recovery for the communal purposes of the monastery of land which had previously been regarded by an aristocratic family as a private-property share in its endowments . |
| 8 | These excavations produced 706 bronze coins inscribed HISPANORUM , which had previously been very rare , and thereby indicated that their mint should be located at Serra Orlando . |
| 9 | The growth of formal education systems could not have taken place without the incorporation of sectors in society , which had previously been excluded . |
| 10 | The institutions which had previously been set up to aid small farmers had their lending capacity cut considerably , making it difficult for many of the beneficiaries to find sufficient capital . |
| 11 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 12 | A drop of the clear supernatant fluid was placed on an agar plate , which had previously been thickly planted with M. lysodeikticus , and the plate was incubated at 37°C. for 24 hours , when it showed a copious growth of the coccus , except in the region where the nasal mucus had been placed . |
| 13 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 14 | At that time , some working class youths in London adopted as their uniform the long ‘ Edwardian ’ coats and tight trousers which had previously been worn by young men-about-town at the time of the New Look . |
| 15 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 16 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 17 | During the Fifties , the national pattern of soaring costs and falling revenue was reflected in Blackpool ; Franklin countered by cutting winter and off-peak services and the generous concessions which had previously been given . |
| 18 | Its chief original purpose was to facilitate transportation by road of the products of the Coalbrookdale iron works ( q.v. ) , which had previously been conveyed by river and canal transport . |
| 19 | Eagerly he bartered his estate at ‘ St. Budoch ’ in exchange for the castle , which had previously been in the possession of the Courtenay family . |
| 20 | On the basis of a large response the Bureaux Services Committee decided to substitute Mesher for the ‘ Yellow Book ’ which had previously been supplied on supplementary benefit and family income supplement . |
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| 22 | One particularly important technique that has been developed in recent years is the inverse scattering method of Belinskii and Zakharov ( 1978 , 1979 ) which had previously been developed as a soliton technique . |
| 23 | Two local village churches have been the recipients of the Group 's generosity : in 1958 the Church of St. James , Thrapston , received the pews which had previously been installed in the Chelveston base chapel and the tower of the Church of St John the Baptist in nearby Caldecott-cum-Chelveston was restored with the help of the 305th . |
| 24 | Areas which had previously been central to the stealing networks were affected . |
| 25 | You may know that after a long legislative battle the new Broadcasting Act became law on 1 January 1991 and restored freedom for such programmes , including direct evangelism , which had previously been lost . |
| 26 | The peoples of France , England , Germany , Scandinavia and the Netherlands — which had previously been barbarous regions — had begun to catch the Greeks , Latins and Spaniards up and develop their own religious insights . |
| 27 | The amount of English on the radio was reduced , and government documents , which had previously been printed almost entirely in English , began to appear in Swahili during the mid-1960s . |
| 28 | Parliament also complained strongly against the appointment of Arminians , who believed in the doctrine of free will , to important positions in the Church which had previously been held by Calvinists . |
| 29 | The range of goods they were able to carry was welcomed in the area , as well as lunchtime sandwich facilities which had previously been missing in the neighbourhood . |
| 30 | By touring South Africa , one third of tour proceeds will be spent on developing rugby in those areas which had previously been disadvantaged . |