Example sentences of "[pron] have previously been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were related changes in the state sphere and a wholesale ‘ inter-nationalization ’ and associated ‘ de-industrialization ’ of areas and enterprises which had previously been strongholds of Fordism . |
| 2 | Many low caste people who had previously been craft workers turned to farm work , and as farmworkers they had to be paid not in the old feudal terms but an amount definitely related to the work they did . |
| 3 | One of them , certainly , was Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze , who had previously been party first secretary in Georgia . |
| 4 | Sinan ( Emir Hasan ) , who appears to have served continuously from 959/1552 to Shawwal 964/August 1557 and who had previously been kadi of Aleppo : It is worth noting that the kadiliks in the list are divided into two distinct grades — though if Hezarfen is right , they do not seem to correspond , at least in the way one would expect , to " 300- and 500-akce " kadiliks — and it is no$ impossible that the order as given above represents the order of precedence , with Istanbul at the top and Baghdad at the bottom . |
| 5 | There had previously been problems in 1938 in Bethnal Green , Limehouse and East Ham when many members became anti-German . |
| 6 | It was formed in response to the urban riots in the late 1960s , although there had previously been community activity concentrated on winning historic and architectural recognition for the area . |
| 7 | Prior to joining Guinness , he was managing director of Imperial Leisure and Retailing , part of Courage Plc , and he has previously been Courage 's marketing director . |
| 8 | Local troopers crouched in ambush in a maze of low black glassite trenches — wrinkles in the telescoped city 's jointed carapace — and emerged from armoured hatches in what had previously been rooftops . |
| 9 | What had previously been gossip only within a small circle had become widely known throughout the world , excepting however that substantial part of the British public which did not have international Contacts . |
| 10 | In practice , most of them have previously been deputy lieutenants . |