Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play halted as other Saints players raced over and pulled away Speedie — who has had clashes with fans in the past . |
| 2 | And I I do n't criticize them for that , because the the fields that were in the databases in the past did n't d er w were sort of total cost of the |
| 3 | The bid was expected this week or next , with finance arranged through Manufacturers Hanover and Charterhouse , which acted for the brothers in the past . |
| 4 | I mean as usual with financial journalism , er i it 's somewhere in between , I mean endowments are having a bad run at the moment and that 's because they 've paid out such excellent bonuses in the past so if you 've had a maturity in the last four or five years , you 'll have seen how good they are . |
| 5 | But , unfortunately , the attendances in these districts in the past have never reached the level of attendances at games in Edinburgh or the South in the past . ’ |
| 6 | That , given the negative role of many constituency parties in the past , will be an act of courage and of faith . |
| 7 | She 's brought it down on enough people 's heads in the past . |
| 8 | Ophiactis abyssicola is a variable species , a fact which has misled authors in the past . |
| 9 | Lack of funds in the past meant that I was n't always able to see the job through . ’ |
| 10 | Actuaries have supervised and encouraged the growth of life insurance companies and pension funds in the past , and actuarial science is being increasingly applied in work for non-life companies and in investment modelling . |
| 11 | These processes are crucial to the promotion process , and failures in communication have led to interpersonal and interdepartmental disputes in the past . |
| 12 | However , Mr Harvey welcomed the ban on cars which had caused endless problems for shoppers in the past . |
| 13 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 14 | Now she declares unswerving loyalty to diesel : ‘ I 've experienced three petrol cars in the past , but it 's going to be diesel all the way for me in the future . ’ |
| 15 | Giant tortoises in the past have existed on continents or quasi-continents ( both on South America and Madagascar ) but in general they are island animals . |
| 16 | They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past . |
| 17 | Morbidity associated with sickling crises can be greatly reduced by encouraging patients to avoid circumstances known to have triggered crises in the past and to seek treatment quickly when one occurs . |
| 18 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 19 | Mr Warburton replied that since Newton had had single-lead aspects in the past , it had not been considered to fall within any of the interpretations of the embargo . |
| 20 | Altogether eighteen artists took part , all of whom are either practising or have been carpet designers in the past . |
| 21 | No figures are available from the Agriculture Departments on the land areas gripped each year — the data is incorporated in the total field drainage figures and can not be separated — but several schemes in the Pennines and the Welsh uplands have caused significant damage on blanket bogs in the past . |
| 22 | These companies have been Britain 's top exporters in the past . |
| 23 | The fact that she had expected to be cosseted by the subjects of her own journalistic attentions in the past had made her no warier of the reporters she was inviting . |
| 24 | Some winners in the past have been temperamental and failed to get up in the morning , but on the whole they go out as boys and come back as men . ’ |
| 25 | It 's been based on jobs we 've done for clients in the past , based on pla past experience . |
| 26 | They have found a position which has advanced from that of the rather more hierarchical structures that have pervaded schools in the past . |
| 27 | The analysis of required skills ought in principle to have an ergonomics input but in practice it is usually done on the basis of experience of similar system designs in the past . |
| 28 | Sun notes that it has ‘ occasionally ’ licensed its designs in the past , such as those used in the Sparcstation 2 . |
| 29 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 30 | On both volcanoes there is evidence that there was significant hot-spring activity on the summit areas in the past . |