Example sentences of "as the next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tipped as the next Greta Scacchi , Tara looks set for a glittering career . |
| 2 | On June 4 Bush announced the nomination of Robert S. Strauss , a lawyer and a businessman , as the next US ambassador to the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now openly tipped as a candidate to succeed Norman Lamont as the next Chancellor in a summer reshuffle , the bookies have also cottoned on to him as a possible future leader of the party and cut his odds from 33-1 to 16-1 . |
| 5 | But I must say I do n't expect to be seen as the next Mansell , but as the first Damon Hill . ’ |
| 6 | But the way he 's going he could just end up as the next Vinnie Jones . |
| 7 | THE FORMER Essex and England captain Keith Fletcher , 48 , has been named as the next England cricket manager . |
| 8 | Appropriate then , that the man tipped as the next Nigel Mansell should take time out of one of the most hectic weeks in the Grand Prix calendar to visit Swindon-based Raychem , the hi-tech firm which sponsors his car and supplies its electrics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Marquis of Blandford has insisted he ca n't be stopped from succeeding his father as the next Duke Of Marlborough . |
| 11 | In 1064 , Harold sailed from Bosham ; a storm cast him up in Normandy where he was apparently tricked into giving his oath on saints ' bones to pledge support for Duke William as the next king of England . |
| 12 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 13 | But of course she could n't ; she had to sit there and be polite , supporting him as the next chairman , knowing that was exactly what he was , knowing no one could handle the job better , and knowing too that he was one day going to get around to handling her … superbly . |
| 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 | But first tonight , news that support is growing for the notion of having Joe Jordan as the next Scotland manager . |
| 16 | Scotland 's defeat in Italy was certainly not unexpected — tonight , as we 've heard , Joe Jordan is being touted as the next Scotland manager . |
| 17 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 18 | ‘ I want you as well dressed as the next man 's daughter . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm as subject to the frailties of human nature as the next man — or woman . ’ |
| 20 | They have families and mortgages and are just as worried about the possibility of a radiation leak as the next person . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Family physicians ’ enjoy the most extraordinary regard in our society : somewhere in our joint head we need to see them as knowing , honest , trustworthy , benign and caring folk — the truth of the matter being that they are as forgetful , spiteful and drunk as the next person — and as likely to grow old , lecherous and incompetent as anyone else . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | As the next day or two dragged by , fear became Cassie 's almost constant companion . |
| 24 | Our mock-up makes your dream come true with Princess Di crowned as the next Queen — and Charles in a supporting role |
| 25 | In the same way that there are rules within sentences , limiting which words can follow others , so there might also be rules within discourses , limiting which sentence can follow another one , and if I write ‘ The knight killed the dragon ’ , then there might be limits , or constraints , on what I can put as the next sentence . |
| 26 | Seven million new leaflets are being sent to 35,000 GPs as the next stage of the BMA campaign against the NHS White Paper , which has now cost more than £2m . |
| 27 | Stuart is too good to be kept on the sidelines at a time when England have looked to include him in the B squad as the next stage of his international career . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They believe that with this unity a Labour Government becomes directly into view as the next stage on the road to working class power . |
| 30 | THE OIL-RICH Arab states should examine the space scene as the next area of commerce into which to pour petrodollars . |