Example sentences of "of [pron] have previously been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reports suggested that the invasion was supported by large numbers of the estimated 400,000 Palestinian workers in Kuwait , all of whom had previously been denied Kuwaiti citizenship despite constituting the backbone of the country 's middle-management structure . |
| 2 | In practice , most of them have previously been deputy lieutenants . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These included an ageing Soviet-supplied 8-megawatt plant ; a 50-megawatt and a 200-megawatt plant , both of which were still under construction ; and a 5-megawatt natural uranium experimental facility , the existence of which had previously been unknown internationally . |
| 5 | Sharing the problem at once halves it , reduces the feeling of victimisation , and helps to establish the larger dimensions of what had previously been regarded as a local problem . |
| 6 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 7 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 8 | Last year a cache of Second World War shells were unearthed on the site of what had previously been a scrap yard . |