Example sentences of "had previously be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work started on rebuilding utilities and refineries , and the government began administering the operation of the country 's ports , which had previously been under militia control . |
| 2 | Religious Affairs had previously been under the control of Lt.-Gen. |
| 3 | Both the new leader and the modernisation programme had previously been on the political scene , but at the end of the 1970s they appeared to be in a much stronger position than ever before . |
| 4 | When he left , she gave him two chimney pots , which had previously been on her house . |
| 5 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 6 | Lastly , there was Gordon Alston who had previously been in Benghazi when the town had been under British control . |
| 7 | Eagerly he bartered his estate at ‘ St. Budoch ’ in exchange for the castle , which had previously been in the possession of the Courtenay family . |
| 8 | Most of the supply industry 's generating expertise had previously been in the larger power companies and municipalities ( which had been in the forefront of developing the more advanced power stations ) , but the first power company engineer they recruited as head of generation design fell ill shortly afterwards and died . |
| 9 | Nor was there a difference in the proportion of those committing suicide who had previously been in touch with the psychiatric service . |
| 10 | Jackson had previously been in Japan and appeared to harbour ill will because Australia had not played a more prominent part in the allied occupation of Japan . |
| 11 | Of the three quarters ( 78 per cent ) of those registering as unemployed who had previously been in work , only six per cent volunteered that they had become unemployed as the result of a temporary job coming to an end . |
| 12 | With Collins , the Human League , Japan , Simple Minds , Heaven 17 ( whose two pony tailed members had previously been in the Human League ) , Virgin began to swamp the pop charts . |
| 13 | Succeeding Heinz Häsler , he had previously been in charge of the Defence Department engineering corps . |
| 14 | The car had previously been in a collision caused by the negligence of the first defendant . |
| 15 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |