Example sentences of "[adj] week [vb past] the " 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 | . 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 . |
| 4 | This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand . |
| 5 | This week saw the nadir of confusion . |
| 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 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 . |
| 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 | An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1 . |
| 10 | Those who sailed in this week brought the population of Vietnamese in Hong Kong to more than 50,000 . |
| 11 | Sefton councillors this week stripped the club of its entertainments licence after being handed a police dossier detailing violent and rowdy incidents . |
| 12 | Computer Bookshops this week celebrated the conclusion of its most successful promotion . |
| 13 | Over 400 schoolchildren this week visited the Redcar City Challenge exhibition at the Redcar Bowl which runs all day today . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | DARLINGTON 'S doctors this week gave the thumbs down to Conservative MP Michael Fallon . |
| 16 | TOP trainer Bill Watts this week joined the growing band who are demanding a shake-up of racing 's finances . |
| 17 | AN IRISHMAN who sold his family furniture for £600 was counting the cost today after Christie 's this week auctioned the same furniture for £230,000 . |
| 18 | National statistics released this week showed the cost of vandalism and arson attacks on schools had doubled in a year from £60m. to £120m . |
| 19 | I have visited schools where informal methods are practised and in which each teacher has to submit a ‘ projected ’ programme for the coming week to the headteacher on each Friday morning together with an analysis of how closely the current week followed the original forecast . |
| 20 | So I tried half heartedly to diet and each week put the results to the test . |
| 21 | What happened is not clear , but it seems the moran displayed a certain lack of enthusiasm : ‘ in the conditions prevailing one week saw the limit of their usefulness ’ , was the cryptic summary of the Kajiado DO . |
| 22 | Said , alright , I said the first week said the first week I said , then it 'll |
| 23 | MR CHRIS Patten , the Conservative Party chairman whose defeat in Bath last week marred the Prime Minister 's election triumph , is considering an offer of the governorship of Hong Kong . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 25 | SunSoft last week launched the SunSoft Press , a publishing group to develop , market and distribute books on Solaris and associated Sun products to users in partnership with publishers Ziff-Davis and the Professional Technical Reference Division of Prentice Hall , part of Simon & Schuster . |
| 26 | NEWPORT , who last week suffered the indignity of a record score by the All Blacks in Wales , are looking for two new coaches . |
| 27 | Mercedes last week announced the car with which it will defend its world sportscar crown and begin preparations for an F1 assault . |
| 28 | THE GOVERNMENT last week announced the worst unemployment figures for four years . |
| 29 | IBM 's Pennant Systems last week announced the extension of its Advanced Function Printing into the AIX/6000 environment and WISIWYG viewing on PS/2 screens under Windows . |
| 30 | Its Sun Microsystems Computer Corp unit last week announced the Network Terminal Server , which enables 64 terminals or other serial peripheral devices to be connected ‘ easily and economically ’ anywhere on a Unix host-based local area network . |