Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as the next " in BNC.

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1 Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ .
2 The part of the boy Miles , is sung by Sam Burkey , a 12 year-old who has been tipped as the next Aled Jones ; he 's already sung the part with the English National Opera .
3 THE FORMER Essex and England captain Keith Fletcher , 48 , has been named as the next England cricket manager .
4 Chevenement enjoyed 18 months ' political success , during which time he did well enough to be tipped as the next prime minister .
5 But I must say I do n't expect to be seen as the next Mansell , but as the first Damon Hill . ’
6 The priority for developing these subsystems will depend on potential benefit , urgency of need , probability of success or natural precedence , which could be described as the next ‘ piece of the jigsaw , .
7 Adoption should never be suggested as the next option after treatment failure , it should be stressed that it involves a different type of parenting to biological parenthood , and adoptive parents should be advised to contact an organisation such as Parent to Parent Information on Adoption or British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering ( BAAF ) for information .
8 Scotland 's defeat in Italy was certainly not unexpected — tonight , as we 've heard , Joe Jordan is being touted as the next Scotland manager .
9 HOWARD Davies , 41 , controller of the Audit Commission , was swiftly presented with an ‘ agenda ’ yesterday after being confirmed as the next director-general of the Confederation of British Industry at a performance-related salary estimated to be starting at £175,000 .
10 Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT .
11 Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT .
12 The national conference which since late 1991 had been planned as the next stage in the democratization process , was on May 8 postponed until later in the year on the grounds that its preparatory commission had not completed its work .
13 The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture .
14 Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site .
15 A twelve year old boy who 's tipped as the next Aled Jones is taking part in an open-air production of Benjamin Britten 's opera ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ .
16 Ecstasy 's been described as the next best thing to an orgasm , so if your life feels empty it can appear to fill that gap quite nicely . ’
17 We played a couple of club dates , one of which was filmed as the next video for ‘ Back To The Light ’ , and then we did three smallish stadium gigs with Joe Cocker and the B-52s , and they went very well too .
18 As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association .
19 The arrival of the T9000 Transputer last week was hailed as the next step in Inmos Ltd 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line .
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