Example sentences of "at the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | This personal and inner satisfaction gives way at the next stage to taking account of the viewpoints of others , and the experience of others . |
| 2 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 3 | Nor are sharing cutlery , sitting at the next desk , going swimming or communal toilets . |
| 4 | The people at the next table moved their chairs forward imperceptibly . |
| 5 | He moaned more loudly and the people at the next table held their drinks in mid-air . |
| 6 | At the next party a week later , the children learn how to get their pups to sit by simply using a hand signal . |
| 7 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 8 | Sir : Labour does not need a commitment to proportional representation in order to scoop most of the centre ground at the next general election . |
| 9 | Labour leaders were strongly criticised for embracing an ‘ unprincipled ’ U-turn away from unilateralism in an attempt to win votes at the next election . |
| 10 | In his address to the party conference at Brighton , Mr Kinnock said Labour was now ready , eager and able to take power from the Conservatives at the next election , and his confidence won him one of the most prolonged and enthusiastic ovations received by a Labour leader for many years . |
| 11 | Jimmy Knapp , general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen , predicted that the Government 's scheme for selling off British Rail would help to guarantee the defeat of the Tories at the next election . |
| 12 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 13 | In the 50 seats that Labour needed to capture at the next election , people would continue to view the party with suspicion ‘ until we display democracy in our organisation ’ . |
| 14 | Dread of failure , as much as positive enthusiasm for Labour 's change of direction , was a driving motivation for offering the most appealing face possible at the next election . |
| 15 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S plans for the NHS could cost the Tories 1.5 million votes at the next general election , Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman , claimed yesterday . |
| 16 | ‘ That would mean the Conservatives losing over 1.5 million voters at the next election and many marginal seats would go with them . ’ |
| 17 | Senior Conservative MPs have already protested about the move and called on the Government to foot the £650m bill or risk losing key marginal seats at the next general election . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a common agreement to be ratified at the next board meeting on 20 October ’ . |
| 19 | David Blunkett , Labour 's local government spokesman , said the announcement meant that the Government had admitted defeat over the poll tax , and that the money was solely aimed at the next election . |
| 20 | DENIS Winston Healey is having a certain amount of characteristically mischievous fun with journalists at the moment , on the question of whether he will or will not stand at the next election . |
| 21 | There was a nice-looking American at the next table , however , so I asked him whether he was a drug-fiend , dealing in human misery , in which case , I said , I 'd like some Ecstasy . |
| 22 | There is no way of knowing , yet , whether the Greens at the next election will be playing Pan pipes in the background , or piping briskly into the fray . |
| 23 | Any Conservative you care to converse with will predict a close contest at the next election . |
| 24 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 25 | At the next they were all square when Lyle missed from three feet . |
| 26 | This year 's production number was of particular interest and significance because the Conservative high command is planning to make leadership a key issue at the next general election , only two years away . |
| 27 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 28 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 29 | • Neville Fickling is guest speaker at the next Pike Anglers ' Club Lea Valley meeting on Tuesday , February 26 at Chestnut FC in Theobalds Lane , starting at 8pm . |
| 30 | But at the next peg different things were happening . |