Example sentences of "[noun sg] yesterday [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Confederation of British Industry yesterday said MPs ' pay must also be pegged . |
| 2 | A MAJOR meat industry figure yesterday endorsed livestock producers ' legitimate expectations of premium prices for quality products . |
| 3 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
| 4 | THE financier who made a billion when Chancellor Lamont lost the battle for the pound yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 5 | FILM director Woody Allen 's young lover yesterday dismissed rumours that their affair was on the wane . |
| 6 | Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report , which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally . |
| 7 | LABOUR yesterday claimed funding for Durham Training and Enterprise Centre would be cut by almost £1m from next month . |
| 8 | THE US state department yesterday condemned Libya 's active chemical weapons programme but declined to confirm a detailed report of a new Libyan underground plant aimed at making and storing poison gas . |
| 9 | The bizarre confrontation yesterday saw punches thrown and claims that a shotgun was produced before police arrived to calm things down . |
| 10 | DONCASTER rugby league club yesterday sacked coach Geoff Morris and assistant Kevin Parkhouse . |
| 11 | The Jockey Club yesterday announced plans to maintain its Sunday racing campaign by sanctioning a mixed meeting of flat and jump racing at the Surrey track . |
| 12 | A High Court judge yesterday granted Alison Halford , the assistant chief constable involved in a long-running battle with her police authority , leave to seek another judicial review of her case . |
| 13 | THE Chancellor yesterday adopted President Bill Clinton 's policy of balancing rather modest immediate measures to reduce the budget deficit with a promise of progressive corrective measures in the longer term . |
| 14 | The Chancellor yesterday promised measures which he said would amount to the most fundamental reform of income tax administration since the introduction of Pay As You Earn in 1944 . |
| 15 | A GERMAN museum yesterday took possession of 101 priceless sketches , water colours and prints , part of a collection stolen by Red Army troops at the end of the Second World War . |
| 16 | Members of Darlington Council 's development committee yesterday heard details of legislation to simplify and shorten planning procedures . |
| 17 | Langbaurgh planning committee yesterday recommended permission for the Guisborough by-pass and the long-awaited East Cleveland Community Hospital at Brotton . |
| 18 | The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat . |
| 19 | A FORMER public school boy yesterday won £8,000 damages for a caning he received nine years ago . |
| 20 | Durham County Council yesterday presented Newton Aycliffe Juniors football team with a plaque for the Lord Mayor of Liverpoool , who they will meet during a tour of the North-West as guests of Everton FC . |
| 21 | THE highest ranking North Korean official to defect to the South yesterday poured scorn on Pyongyang 's decision to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection , saying it was a ruse . |
| 22 | Assistant county trading standards officer Ed Chicken yesterday told Bedale magistrates that animal health inspectors spotted Taylor 's animals being weighed at the mart . |
| 23 | Assistant county trading standards officer Ed Chicken yesterday told Bedale magistrates that animal health inspectors spotted Taylor 's animals being weighed at the mart . |
| 24 | The UK arm of Dun & Bradstreet Corp 's Atlanta , Georgia-based Software Services division yesterday previewed version 2.0 of its SmartStream client-server accounting and decision support software which will debut this summer on a range of systems . |
| 25 | IBM Corp yesterday announced CICS OS/2 Version 2.0 , a full function server implementation of the transaction processing monitor . |
| 26 | NCR Corp yesterday announced enhancements to its Top Eed distributed transaction processing system . |
| 27 | Lotus Development Corp yesterday began shipments of Lotus Notes 3 , which offers cross-system support and is available in a Macintosh client and a server version for Windows and MS-DOS , and there are upgrades to the existing OS/2 server and Windows and OS/2 clients ; Notes Release 3 costs $500 for any client or server implementation . |
| 28 | The Test and County Cricket Board yesterday rejected trips to the Diamond Jubilee in Calcutta — in which most of the Test-playing countries are likely to be involved — and the Sharjah Championship Trophy in the Gulf . |
| 29 | Avesco Plc yesterday announced plans to demerge its VideoLogic Ltd multimedia subsidiary , which has joint venture agreements with IBM Corp : it says that Videologic 's turnover for the year that ends today will be not less than £10.4m , which is an increase of 44% over last year : Avesco also plans to raise £12.1m net of expenses in a one-for-three rights issue at 63 pence ; the news put 12 pence on the share price , which reached 97p . |
| 30 | Ahead of its personal digital assistant announcement today , Amstrad Plc yesterday announced appointment of a second non-executive director , fulfilling Alan Sugar 's promise to appoint at least two : the new man is Michael Beckett , former chairman of Ultramar Plc , and former managing director of Consolidated Gold Fields Plc ; he is non-executive director of a number of companies ; Amstrad said a third non-executive director might also be named later . |