Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 2 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 3 | By about 1950 , Corby 's steel works had expanded the former village into a place of fifteen thousand inhabitants , and this figure was doubled in the next decade . |
| 4 | Self-stimulation decreased immediately after transfer except for HM , where the decrease was observed at the next datapoint . |
| 5 | East Anglia was forgotten in the next three novels . |
| 6 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 7 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 8 | As each lift was modified , work was commenced on the next lift , so that two lifts were available for full service to the hotel at any time . |
| 9 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 10 | The changeover from the domestic system of manufacture to that of the textile mill was completed during the next generation . |
| 11 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 12 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 13 | A " conversation " — again the minutes are terse — took place and the meeting was adjourned until the next Monday . |
| 14 | One patient developed a transitory respiratory arrest and the procedure was deferred for the next 48 hours . |
| 15 | Consideration of rules and regulations was deferred to the next meeting . |
| 16 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer last week was hailed as the next step in Inmos Ltd 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line . |
| 17 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
| 18 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |
| 19 | This level of trade was to continue throughout the next fifteen years with the exception of 1927 the year of the general strike when only 2.7 million tons was handled . |
| 20 | Trouble , it seemed , was still in bed ; trouble was recuperating for the next engagement . |
| 21 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 22 | This performance was repeated in the next room along . |
| 23 | Expansion of the routes was expected over the next decade . |
| 24 | There being no progress to report , this matter was adjourned until the next Meeting . |
| 25 | Further gloom was cast by the next piece of information . |
| 26 | A General Election was expected during the next two years , but already there were signs that the Peace Alliance was preparing to test its strength among the electorate . |
| 27 | Similarly if the formula referred to F2 and F3 the references would change to F3 and F4 when the formula was copied to the next row . |
| 28 | No one this time was talking about the next fight . |
| 29 | When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years . |
| 30 | Its theme of ‘ the disintegration of African social life ’ pointed to a concept of applied anthropology — ‘ a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa ’ — which Smith was to advocate over the next two decades . |