Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 2 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 3 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 4 | The announcement has been delayed until next week , to avoid clashing with the Prime Minister 's speech to the Conservative conference today . |
| 5 | The hearing has been adjourned until next week . |
| 6 | If no copy of the general practitioner review has been received within two weeks of the prompt a telephone call to the general practitioner is made . |
| 7 | THE team entrusted with the task of putting the little-known sport of boccia on the British sporting map has been selected following last week 's national championships at York University . |
| 8 | BRITISH Telecom complains it has been plagued in recent weeks with claims that chairman Iain Vallance is resigning . |
| 9 | The Mirror has been beset in recent weeks with rumours and reports that it was about to be taken over . |
| 10 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 11 | STEVE WILLIAMS , the 34-year-old former England midfield player , has been suspended for two weeks without pay and stripped of his title as assistant manager following a bust-up with manager Alan Ball at Second Division Exeter City . |
| 12 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 13 | and there 's more news today on the incident in which scrum-half Hannaford fractured his eye socket … the Saracens number eight Barry Crawley who threw the punch in the league game last week has been suspended for three weeks … |
| 14 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 15 | I am having problems with my two foot Red-Tailed Catfish which has been fasting for two weeks . |
| 16 | A meeting has been organised for next week to discuss the situation . |
| 17 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 18 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 19 | The pub has been closed for eight weeks but tenant Tracy Willcox said the renovation was a vast improvement . |
| 20 | Mr Heseltine has long advocated an extension of such agencies to other British regions , and Sir Geoffrey 's new-found support could signal Cabinet debate on industrial policy — an issue which has been omitted from this week 's conference agenda . |
| 21 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
| 22 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 23 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 24 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
| 25 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 26 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 27 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 28 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 29 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 30 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |