Example sentences of "yesterday that " in BNC.
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| 1 | MB GROUP , the old Metal Box company , refused to confirm yesterday that it was on the verge of a £300m-plus bid for Caradon , the building products group . |
| 2 | Hill Samuel said yesterday that the plan to put Ferranti 's naval and avionics businesses into a separate company and to merge it with another UK defence company , thought to be Thorn EMI , is to be investigated further . |
| 3 | He said yesterday that he meant to conduct a referendum to test whether Transkei 's three million people wished to retain ‘ independence ’ or not . |
| 4 | She said yesterday that Marcos 's remains may be brought to the Philippines when emotions have subsided . |
| 5 | Senator George Mitchell of Maine , the Democratic majority leader in the Senate , said yesterday that he was confident that the senior house of Congress would dismantle the temporary tax cut . |
| 6 | A Downing Street spokesman said yesterday that ‘ there was absolutely no reaction at all ’ to Dr Runcie 's latest broadside . |
| 7 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 8 | Mikhail Shchadov , the Minister for Coal , told the Trud newspaper yesterday that so far this year , deliveries were 18.5 million tonnes less than planned , while 35 million tonnes of mined coal was lying at pitheads for want of freight rolling-stock . |
| 9 | Laporte also announced yesterday that it has bought Woodtech , an independent supplier of wood treatment plants , and has spent £6.3m buying the speciality building products division of ICI Australia and two other minor operations . |
| 10 | Officials at the exchange said yesterday that its current investigation was a matter of routine . |
| 11 | Australian Mutual Provident said yesterday that this type of business was a declining sector of the UK . |
| 12 | Thabo Mbeki , the ANC 's external relations director , who led the movement 's delegation , said in Washington yesterday that the talks were informal . |
| 13 | The Environment Department said yesterday that Mr Patten could not agree with the inquiry inspector 's judgement that the needs of the historic house justified the introduction of unacceptable shopping developments in the countryside . |
| 14 | THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 15 | Vadim Perfilyev , the Foreign Ministry spokesman , said yesterday that the contested region of Nagorny Karabakh , at the heart of the Azeri-Armenian conflict , was almost completely paralysed by the blockade . |
| 16 | Retiring MB Group chairman Dr Brian Smith said yesterday that any short term dilution in the company 's earnings would be ‘ minimal ’ . |
| 17 | He said yesterday that he was approached by headhunters for the £150,000 a year stock exchange job in August . |
| 18 | A TOKYO court ruled yesterday that the Japanese Education Ministry was within its rights to ban a textbook which detailed Japanese war atrocities , even though the court could n't fault any of the assertions made by the author . |
| 19 | The Transkei 's military leader , Major General Bantu Holomisa , said yesterday that he had no objection to Mr Mandela setting up home in his territory . |
| 20 | Walter Priesnitz , the state secretary in the Inter-German Ministry in West Germany said yesterday that he feared the situation inside East Germany could become explosive as the anniversary approached . |
| 21 | IN THE FIERCEST Soviet reaction yet to the East German refugee crisis , the Communist Party daily Pravda declared yesterday that Bonn 's ‘ open door ’ policy at its embassies in Warsaw and Prague was creating a situation which threatened to destabilise all of central Europe . |
| 22 | The left-wing former GLC leader said yesterday that left-wing opposition to the leadership remained strong . |
| 23 | LABOUR delegates were warned yesterday that the party would lack electoral credibilty if it promised increases in public spending which could only be met by higher borrowing or taxes . |
| 24 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 25 | Dr Grant said yesterday that the accident and emergency department would not be closing , not least because surrounding hospitals appeared unable to take the load . |
| 26 | SCOTTISH fishermen 's leaders warned yesterday that Britain 's North Sea haddock quota will be exhausted within three weeks , leading to crisis in the industry and large-scale dumping at sea . |
| 27 | There were three official assurances yesterday that the inquiry by John Stevens , Deputy Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire , into security force collusion with loyalists is proceeding apace . |
| 28 | Barclaycard admitted yesterday that there was a ‘ financial arrangement ’ with Readers Digest on the sales of the book . |
| 29 | John Akers , IBM 's chairman , said yesterday that Europe must become self-sufficient in key technologies such as semiconductors . |
| 30 | But Mr Akers reiterated yesterday that he saw no long-term change in economic assumptions or any downturn in demand for the company 's products . |