Example sentences of "[verb] been on [adj] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 2 | Miss Scanlon , who is in her 20s , has been on sick leave for four months . |
| 3 | Since September ‘ 92 , one of the Enterprise Development Officers , Allison Hughes , has been on sick leave . |
| 4 | Dr Carol Starkie has been on sick leave from Selly Oak hospital since May 25 , South Birmingham Health Authority said . |
| 5 | His appointment as curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum at a salary of £300 p.a. was announced on 16 July 1904 ; he had been acting curator while his predecessor George H. Birch [ q.v. ] had been on sick leave . |
| 6 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 7 | It was his first encounter with Zhou , director in Hong Kong of the New China News Agency , who had been on sick leave ; it had been billed as a " get to know you " meeting , which would sidestep controversial issues . |