Example sentences of "previously [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul had previously been vice president , domestic sales at the former Mips Computer Systems Inc . |
| 2 | Gennady Burbulis was appointed State Secretary under the Russian President , having previously been Russian State Secretary . |
| 3 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 4 | In 1854 he felt it desirable to acquire a source of good Yorkshire iron for the Airedale foundry and established the Monk Bridge ironworks nearby , which was managed by his sons , Frederick William and James ( later first Baron Airedale , q.v. ) , the former having previously been principal locomotive designer at Airedale . |
| 5 | There were nine women in the 19-member cabinet appointed by Brundtland , who had previously been Prime Minister in 1981 and in 1986-89 [ see pp. 30748 ; 31246-47 ; 34502-03 ; 36984-85 ] . |
| 6 | Azzedine Laraki , who had been Prime Minister since 1986 , was replaced by Karim Lamrani , 72 , an economist with a background in business who had previously been Prime Minister in 1971 and 1983 . |
| 7 | But whereas this in all probability had previously been secret lore imparted through oral tradition , with Evan it was willingly shared and brought into the public domain . |
| 8 | Parsons and his followers had found it ironic that their place of depravity should be built on what had previously been Holy Ground . |
| 9 | Although the Constitution made provision for referenda , there had never previously been any exercise of this kind . |