Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of challenges to the previous practice , both in the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights , telephone tapping has been subject to legislation since 1986 . |
| 2 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 3 | The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year . |
| 4 | Revenues from services were £22.6m , a rise of £1.3m on the previous year , while the sale of consumable supplies increased by £900,000 to £6.8m . |
| 5 | In the Arab world Syria has atoned for its support of Iran during the previous Gulf war , and forged a lucrative friendship with Saudi Arabia . |
| 6 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 7 | He seemed to be a lot more cheerful and appeared to have recovered from his bout of depression of the previous evening . |
| 8 | I discussed the issue of neutrality in the previous chapter : the Commission has demanded that the Efta states agree in advance to abide by a common defence policy which is as yet unspecified , thus provoking some concern among the applicant Governments . |
| 9 | Honda declared pre-tax profits in the year to March of ¥88.6 billion ( $110m ) , a fall of 32% from the previous year 's ¥130.8 billion . |
| 10 | In the fourth quarter of 1991 the amount outstanding to non-bank credit companies fell by £0.28bn compared with a fall of £0.14bn in the previous quarter . |
| 11 | In the early years of British rule the avowed principle of government policy was the continuation of policies of the previous regimes , the Dutch in the coastal areas or Low Country , and the Kandyans in the interior . |
| 12 | SIR , Glentoran Football Club supporters can not blame manager Robert Strain for the team 's pathetic continuation of form from the previous 92/ season . |
| 13 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 14 | Artists and art businessmen bored with the ease of success in the previous decade might be coming West in search of a greater ‘ challenge ’ , filmmaking . |
| 15 | This figure compares with a net repayment of £400m in the previous 12 months after £5.4 billion from privatisations . |
| 16 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |
| 17 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 18 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 19 | He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century , since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland , as a midshipman , in the First World War . |
| 20 | Dishonesty replaced the concept of fraud in the previous law . |
| 21 | Other innovations include a comprehensive presentation of results from the previous day 's principal meeting , featuring the breeding of winners , the successful trainer and owner , extended distances , and details of the first six finishers . |
| 22 | Other innovations include a comprehensive presentation of results from the previous day 's principal meeting , featuring the breeding of winners , the successful trainer and owner , extended distances , and details of the first six finishers . |
| 23 | In 1908 , following discussions at the cricket nets after a lecture on Mendelism to the Royal Society of Medicine , he consulted G. H. Hardy [ q.v. ] , his fellow cricketer and co-secretary of the committee for the retention of Greek in the previous examination . |
| 24 | South Africa appeared to have gained an immediate advantage when Kepler Wessels won the toss and followed the example of captains in the previous 10 Tests on the ground by bowling first . |
| 25 | At the year-end , cash totalled £409m , a drop of £61m on the previous 12 months . |
| 26 | Real public spending since 1979 will have shown an average growth rate of 1.4% per annum compared with an annual rate of 1% under the previous Labour administration . |
| 27 | In the following year , as already noted , the cost of living rose by 120 per cent ( average for the year ) , and by the end of the year the rate of increase for the previous twelve months had reached 170 per cent . |
| 28 | Interest is added each year at the rate of inflation for the previous year in order to maintain the value of the loan in real terms . |
| 29 | Formerly French Soudan , Mali achieved independence in June 1960 with Senegal , the two countries having formed the Federation of Mali in the previous year . |
| 30 | Salford University , for instance , relegate on the basis of two features : a cut-off date of 1930 , and a measure of the number of uses in the previous five years . |