Example sentences of "[verb] the next [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 2 | So she said I 'm sorry , so I got the next nearest , I just can not waste any more time . |
| 3 | With this most delicious version of summer pudding- raspberries and redcurrants make the next best — you need a jug of good rich cream of pouring consistency . |
| 4 | Say the next largest ratio is R' . |
| 5 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 6 | But he 's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car . |
| 7 | Poly-unsaturated fats should constitute the next largest share of your fat intake , after mono-unsaturated fats . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the figures indicate that 97 ( 31 per cent ) of the riots occurred at baseball matches and 66 ( 21 per cent ) at American football games , with basketball ( 17 per cent ) and hockey ( 12.5 per cent ) recording the next highest frequencies . |
| 9 | He ca n't ask them , so he is doing the next best thing . |
| 10 | Black males and white women could be used to represent the next highest rungs of the ladder , but lower ones would have to be found in the fossil record . |
| 11 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 12 | Unable to find one with the same outward-opening flap , he did the next best thing and took an average price for similar letter-boxes and forwarded you a cheque for this amount . |
| 13 | She did the next best thing . |
| 14 | so I said the next best thing I said is ring Sarah and she said she 'd already sent a gift , no have a conversation with her , is Lorraine coming today , no she said Terry 's decorating never said where |
| 15 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 16 | Although he can not escape from the linearity of language ( see 7.2 , 7.5.3 ) , James does the next best thing , which is to fasten our attention initially on the most immediate feature of Pemberton 's predicament : his uncomfortable sense of indecision , and then to expatiate on it so that by the time we have threaded our way through two paragraphs , we have built up a sensitive grasp of the coexisting intricacies and ironies of that predicament ( the ironies will concern us in section C below ) . |