Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the properties were placed in the next lower band , F , the Council Tax reduces to £1,085 . |
| 2 | Her fears were justified during the next few hours , and Claudia was relieved when Dana at last went to sleep , curled up in Claudia 's spare bed , her rumpled curls damp with angry tears . |
| 3 | A spokesman said more cash calls were expected over the next few months as members become faced with increasing demands from agents to meet large losses . |
| 4 | Headteachers were allowed to move sums of money from one category to another ( virement ) and under/overspends were carried to the next year . |
| 5 | To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years . |
| 6 | Fortunately , the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published . |
| 7 | On Jan. 3 eight opposition groups threatened to withdraw from the talks unless a complete report were presented at the next session on the disbanding of the security police and the disarming of former security officers . |
| 8 | The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election . |
| 9 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 10 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 11 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 12 | Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days . |
| 13 | As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series . |
| 14 | Those assigned to surgery were scheduled for the next available or convenient operating list . |
| 15 | Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months . |
| 16 | The Old Mill , at the west end of the village , was still operative until the early years of the Second World War , and the New Mill at the east end , which lost its sails in a gale so severe that parts of them were found in the next village , has been restored in recent years and is now a very attractive dwelling . |
| 17 | Encounters with Donald were documented for the next 6 years , during which time he travelled on a southward odyssey along some 480 km ( 300 miles ) of British coastline , from the Isle of Man to Wales and then to Cornwall , stopping off in small harbours , boat havens and coves along the way to socialise . |
| 18 | The lights were dimmed for the next act , and a roll of drums announced two gorgeous showgirls , who were picked out by spotlights . |
| 19 | With only a slight quickening of their pace , Roderick Random , the eponymous hero of Smollett 's 1739 novel , and his companion caught up with the carrier wagon and for a shilling were taken to the next inn on their journey from Newcastle to London . |
| 20 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 21 | The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety . |
| 22 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 23 | They stayed quite still , smiling back at it , until it disappeared with a plop , leaving ripples of disturbance that were erased by the next wave . |
| 24 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 25 | Other services were established during the next few years . |
| 26 | This measure was repeated in 1297 and fines were paid during the next four years . |