Example sentences of "yesterday but " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we also consider thoughts about them qua spectacles , then we would say that I have not succeeded in thinking about them unless I am thinking about artefacts , thinking about items that can be worn on the nose , that aid vision , that are more-or-less breakable , that did not exist a thousand years ago , that this pair existed yesterday but did not exist in 1983 , and so on . |
| 2 | View from City Road , page 33 Ferranti support : Ferranti shares were relisted at 47.5p yesterday but were well supported and ended at 56p . |
| 3 | John Hougham , Ford 's personnel director , refused to comment yesterday but agreed to reply to unions on 26 October . |
| 4 | BAe 's stockbroker , Hoare Govett , was in the market again yesterday but is not believed to have added significantly to the stake . |
| 5 | FINANCIAL markets displayed little enthusiasm for Nigel Lawson 's speech to the Tory party conference yesterday but were prepared to grant the pound a respite from the hammering of the past few days . |
| 6 | Its board had planned to do that yesterday but this had now been postponed — a move the SeaCo president regretted . |
| 7 | PATRICK McENROE not only revived an old family tradition at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday but also managed to give his watching parents a welcome 33rd wedding anniversary present when he added his name to the Nabisco Masters doubles trophy . |
| 8 | The day seemed very long yesterday but I must say my ‘ bonne ’ was very good to me . |
| 9 | Financial markets remained closed by government order yesterday but will reopen today . |
| 10 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |
| 11 | Mr Guerin was to have been sentenced yesterday but this has now been delayed by up to two months . |
| 12 | The surplus at Hawker was not detailed yesterday but is believed to be substantial . |
| 13 | The war of resolutions overshadowed the Congress , which should have ended proceedings yesterday but which is expected to continue until the end of the week , as it discusses amendments to the Russian constitution . |
| 14 | The FT-SE failed to hold its gains yesterday but shortly after opening it was only six points away from last September 's previous record closing level . |
| 15 | Thirty armed police hunting Magee raided the Wisteria Hotel , Cliftonville , near Margate in Kent , yesterday but found no trace of him . |
| 16 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 17 | BRITAIN 'S biggest long-distance coach operator made its stock market debut yesterday but its backers have not exactly made their fortunes . |
| 18 | A decision was expected yesterday but , in a brief statement , chairman Reg Smart said : ‘ We are giving everything a lot of consideration . |
| 19 | A Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit cost £100,000 yesterday but today it is £4,000 cheaper . |
| 20 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont delivered his Autumn statement yesterday but it was meaningless for the people of of Portland , Dorset . |
| 21 | The Scottish FA decided against using a FIFA rule to order the release of the pair yesterday but Roxburgh had a warning for the English Premier League . |
| 22 | Pale , Bosnia : BOSNIAN Serbs called for a new peace plan for Bosnia after declaring the current one dead yesterday but Muslim-led government leaders said this meant the West no longer had any excuse to avoid decisive action . |
| 23 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 24 | Auntie Lou was going to see her friend yesterday but he would n't let her because once when she went , she and this friend went to a dance with some American soldiers . |
| 25 | It is that we might , in other than merely a logical sense , have got yesterday but not last night . |
| 26 | Certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got yesterday but not last night . |
| 27 | Surely it is implausible to suppose , taking Russell 's example , that I do know what I did yesterday but I do n't know that the world did not begin five minutes ago replete with archaeological and other traces ( Russell , 1921 , p. 159 ) . |
| 28 | I wrote to Tim & Polly yesterday but I ca n't lay my hands on The Barbarton exploration Base address . |
| 29 | I spoke to Kevin on the phone yesterday but sadly he has chosen this weekend to go home to Dunsteld , when Mark & I are here at Drumstinchall . |
| 30 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |