Example sentences of "[subord] it have previously been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 2 | But the commission did clarify Gloucester 's position in one area of the north where it had previously been somewhat equivocal . |
| 3 | But the commission did clarify Gloucester 's position in one area of the north where it had previously been somewhat equivocal . |
| 4 | On occasions , wage pressure exploded in very sharp increases , especially where it had previously been compressed by incomes policies . |
| 5 | UITF Consensus No 3 states in para 7 that ‘ the amount included in the consolidated profit and loss account in respect of the profit or loss on disposal of a previously acquired business , subsidiary or associated undertaking should be determined by including , if material , the attributable amount of purchased goodwill where it has previously been eliminated against reserves as a matter of accounting policy and has not previously been charged in the profit and loss account ’ . |
| 6 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 7 | While it had previously been legal to possess a small quantity of drugs for personal use , the new law prohibited possession altogether . |
| 8 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 9 | As it has previously been shown that there is no enzyme activity in either the supernatant or the brush border , the drug must be absorbed before it is acetylated . |