Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army said 60 sheep had been stolen from the settlement the previous night . |
| 2 | Antonio Cafiero , governor of Buenos Aires province , resigned as chairman of the ruling Justicialist Party ( the official title of the Peronists ) on Aug. 6 following his emphatic defeat in a provincial referendum the previous day . |
| 3 | According to results published on Oct. 12 by the Interior Ministry , a referendum the previous day overwhelmingly approved the dissolution of the People 's Assembly , and fresh elections were scheduled for Nov. 29 , with further elections if necessary on Dec. 6 . |
| 4 | Mount 's , who won at Rosslyn Park the previous year , seem certain to enjoy a profitable season . |
| 5 | Foinavon had come a remote fourth in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park the previous December but few disputed that his starting price in the Grand National was a true reflection of his chance . |
| 6 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 7 | One evening in the park the previous summer he had made a frank gesture that was like a question , and one side of her had wanted to say ‘ Yes ’ , but she had said ‘ No , Len , ’ and he had taken his hand away , and kissed her , and quietly accepted her decision . |
| 8 | The feature race of the night , the bookmakers-sponsored 462 metres inter-track with Brough Park and Sunderland , saw Gordon Rooks return to again take the honours with Movealong Sir , which had won the £750 Carling Black Label Stakes at Cleveland Park the previous week . |
| 9 | There had been a storm the previous day and she could still see white horses in the bay from where she was sitting by a south-facing window . |
| 10 | The new picture is then assessed and another remedy given starting at the lowest degrees of dynamization ( LM 1 ) regardless of what potency level the previous remedy had reached . |
| 11 | Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night . |
| 12 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 13 | Of the intervening deaths recorded , one patient died suddenly 42 months after transplantation ( heterotopic heart transplant and previous coronary artery vein grafts to the recipient heart ) and another died of acute myocardial infarction at 65 months , having undergone percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty to a lesion of the left anterior descending coronary artery of the transplanted heart the previous year . |
| 14 | There had been plenty of leg-pulling already about his return to the camp the previous evening slightly the worse for wear from the ternum . |
| 15 | She and Sarah had been to the cinema the previous night and when the air raid warning sounded some people had left but most stayed . |
| 16 | Six other horses were in the line-up , of which the most fancied were Combs Ditch , who had beaten Bregawn in their warm-up race at Wincanton , Fifty Dollars More , winner of the Mackeson Gold Cup on the course the previous November , and Brown Chamberlin , a promising eight-year-old from Fred Winter 's stable who had won the Sun Alliance Chase in 1982 . |
| 17 | These were two ex-marines , one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions . |
| 18 | He had found her — and he used the word much as he might of finding a particularly beautiful sea-washed stone — one late June afternoon the previous year . |
| 19 | Roland Hardy , prosecuting , said 24-year-old Miss Chui , from Singapore , had arrived at the university the previous month and on the day of the accident was walking home with fellow student Cedric Xavier . |
| 20 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 21 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 22 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 23 | The political situation continued to deteriorate during May , apparently little affected by President Paul Biya 's decision the previous month to appoint a Prime Minister , Sadou Hayatou [ see p. 38135 ] , and a " transitional " government which was in effect barely changed in its composition . |
| 24 | On Aug. 5 Mobutu had threatened to suspended the conference following its decision the previous day to resume the use of the country 's name before 1971 , the Republic of Congo , and to adopt the country 's former flag , anthem and motto . |
| 25 | Its US business was profitable in fiscal 1991-92 , where it lost money the previous year , said Bernard Chapot , vice president-director general , and its revenues this fiscal year should top $40m , from approximately $39.5m last year . |
| 26 | the year before , do n't they , so if you do n't get any money the previous year , through . |
| 27 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 28 | John had ridden this route the previous year , before he had tendered for the contract . |
| 29 | Mr Bradford , who lived with his four brothers in Western Road , Brentwood , had been to visit a girlfriend the previous evening . |
| 30 | The crew hailed a fishing-skiff who gave them information that a French ship had been seen making its way up the Firth the previous day . |