Example sentences of "only [prep] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Greenidge and Haynes had put on 96 for the first wicket , Fraser had Greenidge lbw ; immediately after the interval Haynes hit Malcolm 's second ball for four , only for the next ball to leap up at him and give Lamb an easy catch . |
| 2 | It is only after the next stage , gastrulation , that the form of the animal begins to emerge . |
| 3 | She had to think only of the next few hours . |
| 4 | Do n't forget — the £22,250 Extra Prize ( which you may already have won ) and the £27,750 ‘ Early Bird' Prize can be claimed only within the next SEVEN days . |
| 5 | It took only until the next Wednesday when he beat me . |
| 6 | A Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting . |
| 7 | A Director so appointed shall hold office only until the next following annual general meeting . |
| 8 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |
| 9 | Perhaps only in the next life . |
| 10 | Certainly only in the next batch of cantos ( post-1930 ) , which began with extended excerpts from the founding fathers of the Republic , would the scale of magnitude of the poem become apparent , also its topicality and its Americanness . |
| 11 | Real changes will show up only in the next ten or 20 years , and even then they may be hard to monitor against the confused background of deteriorating conditions in today 's Soviet Union . |
| 12 | But despite the generalized emotional expressiveness of such works , English composers achieved a true marriage of words and music only in the next generation . |
| 13 | Fundamentally , politicians in our system are almost always guided by two considerations : first , short-term gains , since their horizons stretch only to the next election ; second , public pressure if it is strong enough to suggest that votes depend on their response . |
| 14 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |