adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
unknown
▪ The apes are exhibiting previously unknown resources of problem solving, and the experiments will doubtless continue.
▪ It was a remarkable discovery, a previously unknown chemical process that Knittle had stumbled on to.
▪ Most important of all he has run down a number of performances previously unknown.
▪ The researchers now believe they have identified the culprit: a previously unknown strain of herpes virus.
▪ The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium, given the name Legionella pneumophila.
▪ But it also contained information previously unknown to either Tanimizu or Sakaida.
▪ Overnight a panic spiral of previously unknown proportions will develop.
■ VERB
announce
▪ It is to be chaired by Mrs Joan Cameron, whose appointment was announced previously.
▪ As previously announced, a capital budget of $ 350 million has been established for the year 2000.
▪ He succeeded Corneliu Coposu, who had previously announced his decision to resign from the post.
▪ During the quarter, Verio began to incur costs associated with the previously announced expansion of its hosting operations.
▪ The acquisition, which was previously announced, is valued at about $ 129 million.
▪ The planned succession was previously announced.
▪ The company had previously announced it would take an undetermined charge for the merger with Meadox, completed in the fourth quarter.
consider
▪ Despite the handicaps of age, gender and origin, I learnt a lot about a medium I had not previously considered.
▪ It's a combination I hadn't previously considered.
▪ Al; though the two ramps were identical no one had previously considered joining them together until now.
▪ Managers and employees will be asked to attain levels of performance previously considered impossible.
▪ No one had previously considered this proposal and there was therefore no prepared group response.
▪ As previously considered, the bodies of natural mummies are hard and rigid.
▪ The appeal raises questions under the Children Act 1989 which have not been previously considered by this court.
describe
▪ Bacterial overgrowth rats were prepared in the same way as described previously.
▪ The low moisture content and salt content are preservative; hence, they are less perishable than the sausages previously described.
▪ The pathology protocol has been described previously.
▪ To our knowledge this presentation has not been described previously.
▪ Taken to its logical extent, this point implies that even such indirect tests as those previously described are invalid.
▪ These genes have been described previously in mouse, rat, man, Drosophila and birds.
discuss
▪ Wyke has previously discussed why alcoholics get infections.
▪ One copy should be used for transcribing your notes as previously discussed.
▪ However, this suggestion has not been confirmed experimentally, as has been discussed previously.
▪ Finally, as discussed previously, phosphate should almost never be given to patients with renal failure.
▪ There are, however, several decrees of a political nature worthy of consideration, not previously discussed.
▪ These statements provide a crucial supplement to the information available from the various kinds of ratios previously discussed.
▪ In addition to the progressive measures previously discussed, he added that banditry had been suppressed and forced loans discontinued.
▪ Many of the concepts about power discussed previously are limited to practical applications made by managers on a day-today basis.
hold
▪ The coincidence of those anomalous ideas was bound to upset many previously held notions about art and photography.
▪ The shares were previously held by the company's founder.
▪ Halla previously held management posts at Intel and Control Data Corp.
▪ Mr Sargent has previously held management positions at Macmillan and Doubleday.
▪ They would be joined by the H-P contingent, a cautious lot sensitive to all sorts of blasphemies against previously held wisdom.
▪ For them this change required a rejection of previously held social and political commitments.
mention
▪ As mentioned previously, in its unusual level of incomers west Thurso resembles a new town, albeit on a smaller scale.
▪ As mentioned previously, monotherapy is always the most desirable.
▪ As mentioned previously, all cases of portopulmonary hypertension reported have had obvious portal hypertension.
▪ The electrical charge used by neurons is carried by ions-those electrically charged atoms mentioned previously.
▪ Do the conventions previously mentioned have meaning for those from another culture?
▪ As mentioned previously, these observations have raised questions about the traditional pathophysiology ascribed to tension and migraine headaches.
▪ As mentioned previously, the Longman Corpus consists of superfields that are in turn subdivided into subfields.
▪ The three pellets previously mentioned were found in the gall of the Saint at the time of the extraction of her heart.
note
▪ And from time to time there was a puzzling new gurgling sound which we had not noted previously.
▪ And such conditions, as noted previously, are an ideal medium for the cultivation of skewed or corrosive organizational beliefs.
▪ Against this background, Mesopotamian society remained, as we have previously noted, basically conservative.
▪ Second, as previously noted, short-term debt is less expensive than long-term debt when the yield curve is positive.
▪ As previously noted, long-term forecasts differ from short-term fore casts primarily in the level of detail required.
▪ As we noted previously, a number of transfer functions are in current use.
publish
▪ A cohort study of gastric cancer incidence among cimetidine users previously published is extended with additional three years of observation.
▪ Most of the 54 stories reproduced here, even the previously published ones, were, for all practical purposes, lost.
▪ The technique is as for treating oesophageal cancers and has been published previously.
▪ Details on the procedure have been published previously.
▪ Research Papers Full papers containing original scientific work that has not been published previously.
report
▪ Significantly, almost 66 % of the patients reported previously seeking treatment from other physicians for their erectile dysfunction.
▪ Simsmetal had previously reported a 10. 1 percent gain to A $ 14. 6 million in first quarter profit.
▪ An association between myasthenia gravis and Crohn's disease has been reported previously in only one patient.
▪ As previously reported, Mr Jett and Mr Mullin will fight the charges.
▪ We have previously reported how mucosal proliferation may be influenced by proximity to a tumour.
▪ We have previously reported two cases associated with chronic diarrhoea, failure to thrive and a proximal small intestinal enteropathy.
▪ Platelet activating factor was extracted from biopsies using ethanolic extraction as previously reported by us and others.
▪ Clinical data of 45 patients have been reported previously.
show
▪ Differences in the glycosylation of cell surface components of colorectal cancer cells have been previously shown.
▪ The long slender arms are flexible, unlike the starfish shown previously.
▪ Nutbeam himself has previously shown that students with a negative attitude to school are more likely to become smokers.
▪ Several divergent but characteristic pathological changes have been previously shown within the pouch mucosa.
▪ Phenotypic studies have previously shown intestinal macrophages to be a heterogeneous population and the present data show functional heterogeneity in inflamed tissue.
▪ The properties were previously shown at the lower of cost and net realisable value, as required by the Companies Act.
▪ We have previously shown diuretics plus nifedipine to be an effective combination for black hypertensive patients.
think
▪ Just as you have stretched your body beyond what you had previously thought possible, so you can stretch your mind.
▪ The environment has not been cleaning itself at the rate the scientists previously thought.
▪ Forecasters suggested the economy will experience much slower growth this year than previously thought.
▪ He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic.
▪ Mortgages and junk made it easier to borrow money for people and companies previously thought unworthy of the funds.
▪ In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought.
unreleased
▪ Amid the old, previously unreleased Rutles tracks and new ones, there is Innes' unerring understanding of the Beatles sound.
▪ About half of the 64 tracks are previously unreleased.
▪ The Spector song is the only previously unreleased cut here.
▪ The newspaper analyzed more than 100, 000 previously unreleased military computer records of courts-martial, which are military trials.
▪ And the scarcity of previously unreleased tracks will disappoint those fans who already own most of Harris' albums.
▪ The trilogy will include previously unreleased footage as well as new visual effects and an enhanced soundtrack.
use
▪ In the case of Polly Peck used previously, the company offered 1 right for every 4 old shares held.
▪ This particular whisky is aged in oak barrels used previously for sherry.
▪ Although two thirds of companies had not previously used outside advice and counselling, 35% did say that they would consider it.
▪ Haciendas have taken over lands previously used by their indigenous workers for domestic production and converted them to pasture.
▪ The covers of the magazine produced a new kind of photographic image not previously used by the company.
▪ Once the patient has discontinued or started tapering the previously used medications, prophylactic agents are started.
▪ FoE has previously used the technique in an effort to divert the route of the M40 from two sites in Oxfordshire.
▪ To use a Client name in this situation, the name must have been created previously using option 5.2.1 - Create Client.
work
▪ The only assistant on duty at the time was Mr. S., with whom the respondent had previously worked.
▪ Paredes previously worked as chief of staff under the governorship of Dulce Maria Sauri, the party's current national president.
▪ He has previously worked in Peterlee and Newton Aycliffe.
▪ Rose had previously worked with the programme's host Des O'Connor and also with comic Mike Reid.
▪ He previously worked for Interstate Engineering in Jamestown as a project engineer.
▪ She has worked previously with fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and the late Jean Muir.
▪ Katter, who previously worked for Grubb &038; Ellis and Cushman &038; Wakefield, is a 10-year industry veteran.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hastings previously worked for a software company in Richmond.
▪ Industrial robots perform tasks that were previously done by human operators.
▪ It's a book of some of his previously unpublished stories.
▪ She had met Atwood at a conference a few weeks previously.
▪ The bombing is being blamed on a previously unknown group of terrorists.
▪ The car was now worth twice what we'd paid for it six months previously.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Black takes advantage of the weather to wander farther afield than previously, and Blue follows.
▪ His previously gaunt frame had put on weight since Hong Kong and he was looking a little more solid.
▪ I suppose that some trace of a previously used chemical was still in the tube which had not been properly cleaned.
▪ Kino had previously been billing patients for service never provided.
▪ She competed on five consecutive world championship teams, a previously unheard-of feat.
▪ The animals were sacrificed 60min later and optic nerve cell suspensions were prepared as previously described.
▪ They took 45 percent of the vote, and took three seats, against one previously.
▪ To reach their concessions, they build roads into previously remote areas.