Example sentences of "had previously been " in BNC.
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1 | He had previously been arrested in May 1982 , when he was editor-in-chief of al-Yawm newspaper , and was held without charge or trial until he was released following an amnesty at the end of 1982 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | French-style café-bars have been a runaway success over here because they address a market which had previously been actively excluded by the ‘ pub tradition ’ — namely women . |
4 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | This was to be achieved partly by diversifying exports , but more significantly by creating local industries to manufacture goods that had previously been imported . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The National Dairy Council had previously been criticised for a campaign suggesting that milk could protect children 's teeth from decay , but a claim that the vitamin A in milk improved night vision was permitted . |
9 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
10 | Australia was also forced to take a stand on drift-netting when the establishment of the Australian Fishing Zone in 1979 brought under Australian jurisdiction a Taiwanese drift fleet that had been operating , since the mid 1970s , in what had previously been international waters in the Timor and Arafura Seas off northern Australia . |
11 | The creatures had previously been forced into convenient taxonomic pigeon-holes , whether they fitted or not . |
12 | Seeing the way the debate was going , the health spokesmen of the Labour Party , Michael Meacher , and of the SDP , Mike Thomas , who had previously been urging me to make economies in the drugs bill , jumped overboard and joined the critics . |
13 | The first was that authorised dissection of corpses had previously been restricted to felons as an ultimate retribution imposed by society . |
14 | When Ben was eventually found , in the Chapel House Estate , it was discovered that he had previously been looked after in a place called Jesmond . |
15 | Several weeks before reunification , Bundeswehr units started taking over former NVA bases and re-training NVA soldiers , before quietly slipping into West Berlin , from where they had previously been banned by the 1969 Four Power agreement . |
16 | While the election of Paisley was a major blow to the credibility of Chichester-Clark , who might have been better advised to save face by not becoming personally involved in opposing Paisley , William Beattie 's victory in South Antrim was probably more damaging in that Beattie was far less well known , was standing in a more cosmopolitan constituency , and was competing against a man who had previously been a cabinet minister . |
17 | When Clifford Smyth was persuaded to resign from the DUP , he also felt obliged to leave the Free Presbyterian Church , not because the leadership of the Church suggested it , but because he felt a tension between himself and other congregation members who had previously been political colleagues . |
18 | It surfaced , for example , in the suggestion that museums and art galleries , which had previously been open to the public free of charge , should begin to charge for admission . |
19 | It could mean the recovery for the communal purposes of the monastery of land which had previously been regarded by an aristocratic family as a private-property share in its endowments . |
20 | The second group , of those — even including some Party members — who had previously been apathetic or negatively disposed towards the Party , thought that the time had now come when they could air their feelings . |
21 | These excavations produced 706 bronze coins inscribed HISPANORUM , which had previously been very rare , and thereby indicated that their mint should be located at Serra Orlando . |
22 | In an electrifying performance that revealed the depth of his personal frustration at the role he had previously been playing , a raw Welshness returned to his accent and a welcome freshness was injected into his rhetoric , underlined by an extraordinary display of physical gestures involving head , neck , shoulders , arms , hands and fingers . |
23 | Underwood 's position as England 's leading try-scorer , with 35 to his credit , has a two-fold RAF connection because when he scored against Ireland in 1990 the record he overtook had previously been held by another RAF pilot and winger , Cyril Lowe , who totalled 18 between 1913 and 1923 when winning 25 consecutive caps . |
24 | After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master . |
25 | Eight branches ( Bungay , Burgh Castle , Hollesley , Ilketshall St. Lawrence , Kersey , Leiston , Walberswick and Wrentham ) had been founded since the New Year , although the first of these had previously been a Student Group . |
26 | The present managers of both cooperatives are from out with the Western Isles , although in Ness there had previously been a local man . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
29 | When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed . |
30 | Golf Illustrated 's lengthy accounts states ‘ difficulty after difficulty had to be surmounted , not with ease ’ and tells us the course had previously been partly arable , partly waste and that one professional condemned the prospects of the course unless £10,000 were spent on it . ’ |