Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 2 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 3 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 4 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 5 | Use the erm , they they invited the Chislehurst May Queen , dan maypole dancers to come to the next open evening . |
| 6 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 7 | The fact that resources which should have been released at point B are not available to work on the next planned project until point C is an ‘ opportunity cost ’ and will quite possibly result in that project being delayed too . |
| 8 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 9 | O N A less acrimonious note , I was glad to read that David Alton , the Liberal Democrat MP for Liverpool Mossley Hill , is likely to stand at the next General Election . |
| 10 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 11 | The present Labour MP in Barnsley West , Allen McKay , is to retire before the next general election . |
| 12 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 13 | A second referendum would then be held to coincide with the next general election , due by November 1993 , when voters would be asked to make a straight choice between the MMP proposal and the existing system . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 15 | He had about another ten paces to go to the next parked car , within the wheelbase of which he would be safe from the laser-axles of the passing traffic . |
| 16 | As they do so , they deposit a load of pollen within the orchid flower and immediately afterwards receive a fresh batch to carry to the next false female . |
| 17 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 18 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope to be able to legislate in the next parliamentary session , ’ he said . |
| 20 | He watched the cars and buses and vans and trucks pass by him , and calculated how far he had to go to get to the next parked car which would shield him from them . |
| 21 | On the second task — to cut inflation , the budget deficit and Italy 's vast public debt — Mr Ciampi must rely on his reputation as a defender of sound money to overcome opposition from populist politicians with everything to lose at the next general election . |
| 22 | If processing time is negligible there will be an additional half a revolution to return to the next prime track record , and the total time to locate and process the overflow record will be precisely one revolution . |
| 23 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 24 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |