Example sentences of "be [to-vb] for the next " in BNC.

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1 And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses .
2 And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades .
3 Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 .
4 Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years .
5 Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years .
6 When it reappeared in December , Index had taken over the printing — and Gutenberg 's technology was to rule for the next 12 years .
7 By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years .
8 We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households .
9 My first real task was to prepare for the next meeting of the Accidents Investigation Division of ICAO in Montreal .
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