Example sentences of "this week [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferranti this week received the report it commissioned from accountants Coopers & Lybrand on the alleged fraud . |
| 2 | Mr Gould — who this week quit the Shadow Cabinet and was voted off the NEC after defying the party 's Euro line — was applauded by his Blackpool audience . |
| 3 | BRITAIN 'S new environment minister , Tom King , this week gets the chance to choose whether a piece of derelict land at London 's Elephant and Castle should be used for housing or high-technology industry . |
| 4 | . The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate this week told the inquiry that it has identified 82 unresolved safety issues affecting the design for Britain 's first PWR station at Sizewell . |
| 5 | This week saw the country 's biggest parent group , the Scottish Parent-Teacher Council , claim that chaos could result from devolving budgets at the same time as council reform . |
| 6 | This week saw the start of the retrial of William Lozano , a Hispanic policeman who killed two black men in Miami in 1989 . |
| 7 | This week saw the nadir of confusion . |
| 8 | And news of the DoT decision to look at the interchange this week raised the hopes of green campaigners opposed to the cross-town route . |
| 9 | This week to mark the anniversary we 'll be looking at the work of Oxfam around the world . |
| 10 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 11 | An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1 . |
| 12 | A DRUG company this week accuses the government 's Committee on safety of Medicines of holding up measures to make the arthritis drug , Opren , safer . |
| 13 | Community Care is launching a major campaign this week to press the government to respond to a hidden national scandal — the abuse of elderly people in their own homes . |
| 14 | Those who sailed in this week brought the population of Vietnamese in Hong Kong to more than 50,000 . |
| 15 | HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson will this week meet the steering committee set up on Friday to represent Heron 's 82 bankers to negotiate a standstill agreement on its £1.22 billion debt . |
| 16 | This week has the potential for misunderstanding and/or conflict . |
| 17 | SCHOOLS FA officials will this week ask the IFA to switch the Ards-Cliftonville Bass Irish Cup semi-final from Friday , April 2 to the next day . |
| 18 | Sefton councillors this week stripped the club of its entertainments licence after being handed a police dossier detailing violent and rowdy incidents . |
| 19 | Other gaelic flavoured news this week includes the revelation that THE EDGE will be spending a lot more time poncing about in Tie-Rack cravats and spouting epigrams from now on as he 's just purchased OSCAR WILDE 's old gaff . |
| 20 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , California , will this week unveil the Iris Indigo DevStation , calling it the industry 's first desktop especially configured for software developers . |
| 21 | Spennymoor town councillors will this week consider the vandalism of a stone wall , repaired last year , at the Holy Innocents closed churchyard . |
| 22 | SHADOW Home Secretary Roy Hattersley is to meet North Yorkshire 's top policeman later this week to discuss the county 's growing crime rate . |
| 23 | Computer Bookshops this week celebrated the conclusion of its most successful promotion . |
| 24 | One trusts that the desert winds blowing through Vegas this week represent the winds of change for the better in boxing . |
| 25 | Over 400 schoolchildren this week visited the Redcar City Challenge exhibition at the Redcar Bowl which runs all day today . |
| 26 | DARLINGTON 'S doctors this week gave the thumbs down to Conservative MP Michael Fallon . |
| 27 | The US Department of Energy this week gave the go-ahead for a $39-million project to rebuild the core of one of the world 's largest solar power plants with the goal of generating commercial quantities of electricity by 1998 . |
| 28 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 29 | A delegation of North Carolina political and business officials , led by Governor Jim Hunt , will visit Mr Crandall later this week to offer the airline a $620,000 ( £42,000 ) incentive package to keep open its hub in Raleigh-Durham . |
| 30 | Officers expect to strike for only a few hours , and Association leaders will meet later this week to finalise the details . |