The phrase "previously engaged in" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an action or activity that was done in the past, before a specific point in time or before a different action took place. Example: Sarah had previously engaged in a rewarding career as a lawyer before deciding to pursue her passion for photography.
Many had not previously engaged in politics.
All were previously engaged in noise exposed work such as shipbuilding, steel and woodwork.
Why would firms exhibit unethical behaviour after having previously engaged in socially responsible behaviour towards their stakeholders?
Among other things, the Forest Code gave amnesty to landowners who had previously engaged in illegal wilderness clearances.
"One who previously engaged in jihad knows that it is naught but violence, crudeness, terrorism, [deterrence] and massacring," Naji writes, as translated by McCants.
In particular, the steps in the claimed processes (apart from the natural laws themselves) involve well-understood, routine, conventional activity previously engaged in by researchers in the field.
These instructions add nothing specific to the laws of nature other than what is well-understood, routine, conventional activity, previously engaged in by those in the field.
Fifty-five per cent of the female respondents said they had previously engaged in unwanted sexting, while 48 per cent of men had done the same.
These purchases generally raise prices, and the Fed has previously engaged in such quantitative easing in part because policy makers worried that prices might otherwise start falling.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which investigates complaints about the country's intelligence agencies, is also funded by the Home Office, and its staff includes at least one person believed to be a Home Office official previously engaged in intelligence-related work.
But he had never previously engaged in a formal debate, so the fact that he stood his ground and stated his platform succinctly, clearly and sometimes even forcefully impressed many skeptical observers.
