Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] the next " in BNC.

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1 Only if a building reaches the next stage commonly regarded as romantically old-world is its survival reasonably assured .
2 The last assigned PSN attribute is used to support queries in which a lexicographer requests the next entry requiring attention .
3 In fact I 'm surprised they never made a bid to stage the next Olympics .
4 On Thursday 27the May representatives of the PCC and the PC together with Mrs D Bellinger from WBC and Ms K Scivyer of the Rural Housing Trust held a meeting to discuss the next steps .
5 The Alliance called a general strike the next day , but cancelled further demonstrations , fearing fresh violence .
6 The party has been placed in the impossible position of choosing a leader to fight the next election when it has not yet had the opportunity to discuss why it lost the last one .
7 The Fibonacci series is produced by adding together the last two numbers in a sequence to get the next number — 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 and so on .
8 Elections were last held in May 1981 ( when the 117 seats were contested by 148 KNUFNS candidates ) , and in February 1986 a resolution to postpone the next elections until 1991 was endorsed by the Assembly .
9 If not , the lessons are clear — there will not be a kick-start come the next election , but the Tories will be kicked out .
10 They see KIDLINK as a project to prepare the next generation in the use of the new technology .
11 These notes , if required , can be printed in a report showing the next month 's memoranda details or , if confidential , can be held but not printed .
12 She would be well and truly mystified by the sight of an elderly king who needs to be helped into his chair one minute , but can swing his cane around like a golf stick the next , and even more flummoxed by the depiction of a world in which the porter has closed circuit television , but the method of killing has n't changed a jot .
13 You may want to make the nice gesture , which was made to me when I first moved into a flat and I have repeated myself whenever I have moved , of leaving a plant or a box of chocolates and a note wishing the next occupants a happy life in your former home .
14 ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says .
15 A semi-colon causes the next and following items to be printed on the same line immediately after the previous item .
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