Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether we like it or not , and I must admit I do , Britain is back to two-and-a-bit party politics and Labour is now favourite to win the next election . |
| 2 | All Marr really knew was that Morrissey had written a book about The New York Dolls and was quite prepared to spend the next hour talking about them if nothing else was to stem from the meeting . |
| 3 | No one was willing to take the next step . |
| 4 | Indeed , the signs are that while the politicians and the bureaucrats continue wrangling over the fine print , young people are ready and willing to take the next step into Europe . |
| 5 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 6 | The only way to remove the Government was for Labour to win the next general election . |
| 7 | Robin Cook , the party 's health spokesman , who retained his executive seat by coming second , said the vote showed the degree to which the party wanted to elect people who devoted their energies to helping Labour to win the next election . |
| 8 | In particular , will your erstwhile political columnist , R W Johnson , apologise for the appalling piece of sexism that appeared in NSS ( under a previous editor ) on 7 December 1990 , when he suggested that the only way for Labour to win the next election would be for Glenys Kinnock to ‘ have a word ’ with Neil and persuade him to stand down ? |
| 9 | On the basis of this argument , however , were Labour to win the next election on the numerical strength of MPs returned from Scotland , he would then have to agree that Labour have no mandate in England ! |
| 10 | You see , sometimes you turn these over , it puts ideas into your head , you see you 're not supposed to see the next card . |
| 11 | The leadership challenge occurred against a background of economic recession — including rising unemployment and high interest rates — and consistent opinion poll evidence that the ALP was likely to lose the next election . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ Current scientific opinion strongly suggests that combination therapy is likely to provide the next major advance in the management of HIV infection . |
| 13 | He borrows Grayson 's typewriter , with which he rewrites the paper he is due to give the next day ( scene ten ) . |
| 14 | I put in when I planted the garden because I thought that would be useful to know the next year . |
| 15 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 16 | It is then possible to start the next day 's turning a bit earlier than would otherwise be possible . |
| 17 | One more duty I was able to perform the next day . |
| 18 | After that she felt better able to tackle the next course of chicken and chips . |
| 19 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 20 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 21 | Congress might just be able to form the next government alone ; if not , it would try to split bits off other parties . |
| 22 | Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 . |
| 23 | " You see I could win one week , be at peak form and not be able to compete the next . |
| 24 | If it fails , the world 's biggest democracy will be even less able to survive the next assassin 's blow . |
| 25 | Like an Elizabethan tickling the back of his throat with a peacock feather to induce vomiting so he would be able to face the next enormous course , he brought up another cloud of ghosts . |
| 26 | I am sure that the Secretary of State will be able to explain the next point to me , because it is so simple . |
| 27 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |
| 28 | Within twenty-four hours of the publication of the Report , Boyle rose in the House of Commons to announce that its recommendations on the scale of necessary expansion were accepted by the Government , that funds were being made available to cover the next ten years , including £650,000,000 for capital expenditure on building by universities . |
| 29 | I shall be only too pleased to fight the next election on the basis of the record on law and order and to show that we have a very much better record than the last Labour Government . |
| 30 | Detailed analysis of the BARB data makes it possible to develop the next , valuable set of information . |