Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 2 | Our company is exchanging greetings with the young soldiers when suddenly a white car refuses to stop at the next checkpoint up the street — braking only slightly and seeking to swerve past the two soldiers . |
| 3 | Gavin Laird , the general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , said that it was the last ‘ burning issue ’ Labour needed to resolve before the next election . |
| 4 | Barring some abrupt turn in the diplomacy , the chances of fighting having begun in the next few weeks are high . |
| 5 | Work has begun on the next issue , due out in June . |
| 6 | Wasps ' foray comes as the sport prepares to move into the next decade as a leading spectator attraction . |
| 7 | The next three weeks were one long , continuous workday , weekdays and weekends merging together , one day seeming to flow into the next . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , PTGI continues to review videos of other Guinness advertising around the world to help decide on the next step . |
| 9 | Any unit of information may of course change status as the discourse proceeds , and what was new in one sentence becomes given in the next , precisely because it has just been said . |
| 10 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 11 | Agree what the patient has to do before the next session |
| 12 | The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey . |
| 13 | Splendid , say many politicians : we are saving to finance the pensions the baby-boom generation expects to collect in the next century . |
| 14 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |