Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delaney moved forward , keeping to the side of the superstructure , intent on the stairway leading to the next deck , and finally the bridge . |
| 2 | Now , as soon as the action switches to the next scene , let's make a run for the Butcher Building . |
| 3 | No matter what the future holds for the next generation and the delicate trembling wilderness , at least we can promise our children and grandchildren one sure thing . |
| 4 | What if the passenger gets out because he is terrified by what is going on and the car crashes at the next corner ? |
| 5 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 6 | Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way . |
| 7 | Got the shopping done for the next fortnight . |
| 8 | If the sport grows over the next 10 years as quickly as it has in the past five , I could make a lot of money . ’ |
| 9 | But then it happened , the incredible , miraculous luck that now she expected , since it happened so easily and often : the telephone rang in the next room . |
| 10 | Dot managed to attract the attention of the girl lying in the next bed . |
| 11 | It is certain much will depend on how the campaign develops in the next three weeks . |
| 12 | With equal division , the wealth inherited by the next generation is It should however be remembered that the process by which wealth is divided may be considerably influenced by public policy . |
| 13 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 14 | Savings accounts in banks were left untouched , but the decree limited for the next six months the amount of cash which could be withdrawn from accounts to a maximum Rbs500 per month , although it authorized the use of bank transfers by individuals for payment to state shops and enterprises . |
| 15 | " Increment descriptor " makes the descriptor refer to the next character in the string . |
| 16 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |
| 17 | The unrest continued over the next few days and by May 22 the number of Palestinians killed by the IDF had risen to 21 . |
| 18 | Moving swiftly on he coined the phrase ‘ objectware ’ to refer to the hundred or so third-party objects that can be bought off the shelf to run in the NeXT environment . |
| 19 | Part II requested the Secretary-General to report to the next ( 46th ) session on the recommendations addressed to him by the Intergovernmental Expert Group to Study the Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Traffic in Drugs convened under Resolution 44/142 of Dec. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 37434 ] . |
| 20 | A small , dapper , decisive man who wore a trilby and glasses , the canon lived in the next village and had a passion for small neat things like himself . |
| 21 | The waiter arrived with the next course and they reverted to politics , talking Spanish again , Ward 's tone , his whole manner softened . |
| 22 | About £35bn of Britain 's huge £50bn borrowing debt is due to the recession , and will be wiped out as the recovery continues over the next three years . |
| 23 | About £35bn of Britain 's huge £50bn borrowing debt is due to the recession , and will be wiped out as the recovery continues over the next three years . |
| 24 | They had to be up early on Sunday morning to get to the station to travel to the next venue which was inevitably the other side of the country . |
| 25 | Undiscouraged by its lack of welcome , the corpse returned upon the next tide to Looe Island , where , cut about by the rocks , the grisly spectacle finally came to rest well to the windward of the select Hannafore part of the town . |
| 26 | At night the place was jumping , the whistling urinals were all occupied , and then the smell of piss and semen was the smell of ecstatic terror , for we never knew when the place would be raided by the cops , and the person standing at the next stall playing with himself might be a copper 's nark , an informer or an agent provocateur . |
| 27 | Fires associated with cultivation volatilize 300–700kg nitrogen per ha from vegetation and surface-litter and a further 500–2000 disappear from the surface soils in the next year or two . |
| 28 | Much of the evidence discussed in the next few chapters will rely on EEG and other electro-physiological information , and some understanding of the basis of these measures is essential to understanding how we know what we do about sleep . |
| 29 | It should hardly be necessary to mention that every partners ' meeting should be duly and sufficiently minuted and the minute approved at the next meeting . |
| 30 | An eerie silence descended over the house as the lorry left for the next house . |