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The phrase "to be previously" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is not typically used in standard English, as "previously" already implies a past context without needing "to be." Example: "The report was previously submitted for review."
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The very first one that Brown put under a microscope turned out to be previously unknown to science.
Before Clarice, a woman who wrote throughout her life about that life was so rare as to be previously unheard of.
Believed to be previously unpublished, the letter to a "Mrs Ellis" was written by Lewis on 19 August 1945, and sees the author unpicking the concept of joy.
It toppled a 20th anniversary edition of BBC1's EastEnders, understood to be previously the most popular programme of the year with 10.6 million viewers on 19 February.
Those aren't among the songs mentioned for the new set: at least on the strength of the titles furnished ("Plundered My Soul," "Dancing in the Light," "Following the River" and "Pass the Wine"), they seem to be previously unheard songs.
The foundation that controls the copyright to images of paintings by Jackson Pollock said Friday that it had withdrawn permission for the use of its name by a Manhattan gallery, in connection with 32 works recently discovered in East Hampton, N.Y., which are thought to be previously unknown works by Pollock.
Before the development of computers, virtually all encoding systems relied on a symmetric key structure, in which both the sender and the receiver knew the exact same code — a point of vulnerability, because the code had to be previously, and securely, agreed upon.
And there are moments in our nation when things that were deemed to be previously acceptable are no longer acceptable, things that were deemed impossible are now imperative," Esty said by phone as she was on her way to a service for Victoria Soto, the twenty-seven-year-old teacher who reportedly died protecting her students.
Thus, DI eligibility requires workers to be previously employed8.
Six Adélie penguin colonies were found that are believed to be previously unreported in the literature.
Seventy-seven percent of GPs would check glucose levels, and 14% of patients were found to be previously undiagnosed diabetics.
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