Example sentences of "in the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 2 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 3 | Thus far , we have reached a ‘ hit or miss ’ situation and , by using the wide-angle lens , have minimised the risk of having a print full of the cows in the next field or a horizon just above the baseline . |
| 4 | ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’ |
| 5 | Billy was not at all impressed by the chapel and was trying to out-stare some heifers in the next field . |
| 6 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 7 | Suppose that I believe that there is a sheep in the next field because of what I see . |
| 8 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 9 | A rave party has been banned because of fears that the loud music and lights would harm a herd of pigs in the next field . |
| 10 | She did n't , but in the morning as she snapped off the alarm , anxious not to wake Rodney , she saw that the man in the next bed was not Rodney , nor was he asleep . |
| 11 | ‘ Must be frustrated lust , ’ he quipped to the man in the next bed . |
| 12 | Dot managed to attract the attention of the girl lying in the next bed . |
| 13 | She chattered on , unaware that in the next bed Victoria silently registered her curiosity about a member of the Royal Family as a threat . |
| 14 | Just before lunch today a Macchi pilot whom I shot down on 9 January was wheeled in , and is now in the next bed to me . |
| 15 | Kate 's voice rose and the girl in the next bed stared at them all . |
| 16 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 17 | But it was very kind of the fellow in the next bed to give him a duffle-coat for a present . |
| 18 | The woman in the next bed , busily knitting when Juliet had called earlier , glanced at her . |
| 19 | There were terrible noises in the night ; people being ill , in real pain in the next bed , and I remember somebody being there at night and not being there in the morning . |
| 20 | THERE was this guy in the next bed with whom I got on pretty well but we were from completely different backgrounds . |
| 21 | There is a new sound broadcasting system under study , for introduction early in the next century . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is about the same as we can anticipate in the next century , on the basis of currently predicted rates of greenhouse warming , according to scientists like Tom Wigley , Director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia . |
| 24 | He accepts the evidence that there has been a drying-out in the continental interiors affecting both the United States and the Soviet Union and then qualifies his acceptance by suggesting that it will be remedied in the next century by greater precipitation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 27 | Worldwide gas , and oil , prices are expected to start rising early in the next century . |
| 28 | Will low-cost uranium reserves be so depleted early in the next century that prices will begin to rise sharply ? |
| 29 | Some recent estimates of the cost nationally in the United States give an idea of the probable scale : curbing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels could absorb between 1 and 2 per cent of GNP , with the sums rising into the trillions in the next century . |
| 30 | In the next century public money will be needed increasingly to provide pensions and better medical care for Japan 's rapidly ageing population . |