Example sentences of "be the next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was to be the next King was n't he ? |
| 32 | was proposed and duly elected to be the next Teachers ' Representative . |
| 33 | Now that the PC has an affordable animation package there 's no reason why you could n't be the next Walt Disney . |
| 34 | AIR AND ANGELS by Susan Hill Mandarin , £3.99 THE natural choice to be the next head of his Cambridge College , a bachelor philosopher in his fifties , sees a 15-year-old girl standing on a bridge and instantly , desperately falls in love with her . |
| 35 | This may be excellent fodder for people who are aspiring to be the next winner of Mastermind . |
| 36 | ‘ And who would be the next year 's chairman otherwise ? ’ asked Rose , guessing the answer . |
| 37 | Meantime Ing C Olivetti & Co — which has an interest in the ARM RISC via its 80% holding in Acorn Computers Plc , is developing its own personal communicator , but is also looking at the AT&T Hobbit , and may join the alliance with Eo ; its own product would be the next generation of the 2.2lbs Quaderno portable , which uses the 16MHz 8086-compatible NEC Corp V30HL chip . |
| 38 | And as for selling Newsome/Wetherall … tell me , who is going to be the next generation of central defenders ? |
| 39 | Lucinda replied : ‘ Gosh , perhaps you are going to be the next queen of England . ’ |
| 40 | Following a skiing holiday with Prince Charles early in 1978 , Lady Sarah , then 23 , announced : ‘ I do n't want to be the next Queen ’ . |
| 41 | Unless toplessness is going to be the next feature of your act . ’ |
| 42 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 43 | Should be the next page |
| 44 | He 's England 's answer to Tom Selleck and I think he should be the next James Bond , man ’ The cricketer was allegedly slated to appear in a film opposite Oliver Reed , and his humorous performances on Question Of Sport surprised many . |
| 45 | ‘ She liked to believe he was in line to be the next PM . |
| 46 | Chairman , can I just venture to s to suggest that the Policy Panel will be the next move surely , Dave , yourself and the chief officers will be doing some formal presentation there and that clearly we need to take the strength from the vote in the Co in this Committee , to support what you 've , what you 've just said . |
| 47 | Emlyn Williams was precisely the right man to be the next guru . |
| 48 | It will , however , likely be years before we see hide or hair of it — the company 's programming centre in Boca Raton , Florida , indicates that version 2.1 will be the next implementation of OS/2 , and even that is n't likely to hit the market until at least spring of next year . |
| 49 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 50 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 51 | When you talk about politics to BBC people , they immediately assume you mean BBC politics , not relations between the parties or the superpowers , but who 's going to be the next DG . |
| 52 | ‘ Two days later a letter appeared in the Signal ( signed ‘ Fiat Justitia ’ ) suggesting that Denry , as some reward for his public spirit , ought to be the next mayor of Bursley . ’ |
| 53 | Richard Riordan , who is likely to be the next mayor of Los Angeles , is less charismatic than Mr Perot . |
| 54 | ‘ Maybe mine will be the next wedding in the church of Santa Barbara . ’ |
| 55 | The Midland Bank has been mopped up by Hong Kong Shanghai and RBS , down 3p at 187p , could be the next target . |
| 56 | The decision was taken in response to fears that the town could be the next target in the current IRA bomb blitz . |
| 57 | A United States intelligence report has suggested India 's capital , New Delhi , could be the next target . |
| 58 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 59 | So who 's going to be the next manager of Oxford United … the shortlist is being drawn up this weekend … the appointment will be made early next week … we ca n't tell you yet who it 's going to be but we can tell the Manor Ground directors who you want … |
| 60 | This became tiring , so I called a halt and suggested that Eddy , who was taller than I , should be the next horse — or did we use the word ‘ donkey ’ ? |