Sentence examples for earlier owners from inspiring English sources

One of the score's earlier owners was the 19th-century French singer and composer Pauline Viardot.

Earlier owners had unsuccessfully tried to put a racetrack and an airport on the marshy land, which many viewed as too difficult and costly to develop.

But the company emphasizes that mining rights, usually sold by earlier owners at the turn of the century, always stipulated the owner's obligation to acknowledge the company's undermining rights.

Augustus Van Wickle, a Pennsylvania coal baron, bought the property in the 1890's, reaping the horticultural benefits of earlier owners who had planted specimen trees, a tradition carried on by Augustus's wife, Bessie, who hired the landscape architect John DeWolf to expand the gardens in an informal, naturalistic style.

Unlike earlier owners of Mount Weld, who planned to fully process the ore to metals, Lynas will export a semiprocessed material to China, where final extraction of the metallic elements will take place with cheaper labor and other overhead.

We've raised more than a billion dollars in equity and debt capital over the years, largely through a couple of recaps, with private equity owners taking out earlier owners.

Apparently, an earlier owner had removed one of the horses to give to his daughter before selling the carousel.

You may find, though, that the garage itself has been duped by an earlier owner who had the car clocked.

The volume is pretty badly beaten up; the spine is gone and the covers detached, and it's hard to tell who the earlier owner might have been.

But long before Professor Rodwin gave it to the Libraries, an earlier owner had truly made the book his or her own.

There had been no functional reason for the recessed ceiling, aside, perhaps, from an earlier owner's desire to cut costs when putting in new walls.