Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The editing pattern consists of one entry per character position in the destination string : each of these specifies insertion either of a designated character or of the next character from the source string , and this may depend on the sign of the value being converted or on whether the first significant digit has yet been reached .
2 It is important however to dispel the ‘ big push ’ theory of change — that all we need is one last great effort to climb the next hill or round the next corner and we shall then arrive in the promised land of milk , honey and stability !
3 Not knowing what lay ahead made him excited and nervous but he could n't help wanting to discover what was behind a door or round the next corner .
4 Committee Members are asked to write out two or three questions for the Gardeners Roadshow and give them to Ruth Wilson at or before the next committee meeting .
5 Committee Members are asked to write out two or three questions for the Gardeners Roadshow and give them to Ruth Wilson at or before the next committee meeting .
6 The final goal of all the Waldens , Dimblebys , and Days is to hit the headlines on the news broadcasts ( or in the next day 's papers ) by tripping up their interviewee or extorting an apology from him , or convicting him of a contradiction .
7 Since Roberts was not mentioned in Spratt or in the next case , Parmenter [ 1991 ] 2 WLR 408 , those cases are per incuriam .
8 They always seemed to be beyond the next corner or in the next room .
9 LIFESPAN will display the user names and corresponding personal names , starting from the specified start user ( or from the next LIFESPAN user , alphabetically , if the start user does not exist ) .
10 ( Certain gilts can be traded special ex dividend three weeks prior to the normal ex dividend date , which means that they can be bought or sold with or without the next coupon during this period . )
11 You can specify the number of a page in the mail message you have viewed previously ; you may also specify a page number to move forward in the mail message , but only to a page you have already viewed , or to the next page ( if one exists ) .
12 Are the answers at the back of the book or on the next page or are they in another book ( this would mean extra expense ) ? 16 Does the student learn inductively or solely deductively ? 17 Are the topics and stories interesting and appropriate or are they dull and irrelevant to your students ' needs ?
13 Of course this is not strictly true , but it makes the explanation simpler , and after all it does n't really make any difference to the cost whether you pay for your bulb or tyre when it fails or at the next service .
14 There is a better copy round the corner or at the next sale .
15 The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal .
16 ‘ A word used by frightened children to describe nameless , formless horrors which await you in the fog , or around the next corner . ’
17 Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) .
18 While the current agreement does not cover sales of the resultant kit , Ionica managing director Nigel Playford obviously has sees that as the next move : he cites Northern 's ability to exploit overseas markets through its international support and distribution operations as ‘ key factors ’ for choosing the Canadian manufacturer .
19 On stage I still have humbuckers in everything , although for the next tour I hope to change my amp setup to accommodate single coil guitars as well .
20 The reassurance is that there will be a Conservative Government to fight for them , and that after the next election they will be represented by a Conservative Member for Monmouth .
21 There is no doubt , though , that within the next half-century we will see this type of biological control of feline populations perfected .
22 I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs .
23 More detached observers suggest that in the next century historians may see Mrs Thatcher as a figure having no more long-term significance than Wilson , Heath , or Callaghan .
24 If one takes everything into account — the shifts in climate which might well remove the United States from its place as the leading ‘ food power ’ and affect the Soviet Union as well , the limited prospects for increased yields , desertification and the steady increase in the global population — it is clear that in the next century large sections of the world 's population will have a very narrow margin between them and starvation .
25 It is possible that we will see a further slowing of the ageing process as time goes on so that in the next century the experience of being in one 's eighties is more like the experience of being in one 's seventies at the moment .
26 But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay .
27 Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ?
28 I came to tell you that in the next life you wo n't return to Earth . ’
29 She chattered on , unaware that in the next bed Victoria silently registered her curiosity about a member of the Royal Family as a threat .
30 Suppose now , though , that in the next period of time , period t + I , autonomous investment ( 10 ) rises by £10 to £510 .
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