Example sentences of "[verb] for the next [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 2 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 3 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 4 | It could also pay to go for the next larger filter if your pond is alternatively stocked . |
| 5 | Since taking the post , Susan has benefited from training offered by the local authority and will be applying for the next supervisory post that is available . |
| 6 | The result — an outline of public spending limits for the next financial year — was published by the Chancellor , together with the economic forecast , as an ‘ Autumn Statement ’ . |
| 7 | In this case , most systems look for the next available space when storing the data or the record is moved to an overflow area . |
| 8 | If it exists then the root word has been found , otherwise look for the next longest suffix present . |
| 9 | Broadmeadows Gurkha , a 15-month-old Broadmeadows Cannon son from Broadmeadows Pedigree Livestock of Garvald , East Lothian , sold for the next highest bid of 8000gn . |
| 10 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 11 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 12 | The petitioners also asked the King to postpone approval of a constitutional amendment calling for the next Prime Minister to be elected , until the post-election government was set up . |
| 13 | If one of the possible extensions scored well , i.e. the top-down prediction appeared to be correct , then the island would be extended further , otherwise the seed would be abandoned for the next best seed word generated bottom-up over that area . |
| 14 | she 's here telling me how they sent over and she said oh do n't call for the next two week because we 're going to Italy |
| 15 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 16 | But , since Cara was supposed to be with her in Czechoslovakia and had said that she 'd be doing her a favour if she did n't ring them , Fabia settled for the next best thing . |
| 17 | So the Irish went for the next best thing , consultative status , getting a toe in the door . |
| 18 | Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ? |
| 19 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 20 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 21 | Even if an intervention is successful in solving a discrete problem like this , the whole process can not be counted as a success if every step has to be repeated for the next discrete problem . |
| 22 | There will be no conclusions today because , says chairman Brian Walsh , ‘ the committee felt it necessary to find time for a full discussion on cricket outside of the agenda planned for the next scheduled meeting on 26 October . ’ |