Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 2 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 3 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 4 | Extensive geological and geophysical surveys were carried out over the next two years , and the governments negotiated with an international group of banks interested in financing the construction of the tunnel . |
| 5 | I made contact , and the arrangements were firmed up over the next week . |
| 6 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 7 | If legislation were introduced early in the next session of parliament ( beginning in November 1991 ) , the first of the new authorities could be in place by April 1994 , and local authorities would be consulted on the basis that the new tax could be in place in 1993-94 . |
| 8 | His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years . |
| 9 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |