Example sentences of "it was next [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was next to impossible for even the most reactionary supporter of the status quo to claim that Government should not even examine the pensions system . |
| 2 | There is a Dunning story of the Canadian who asked where Dunning was and was told that it was next to Forteviot , a village only a tenth the size of Dunning . |
| 3 | ‘ Like the builder who claimed his development was in the ‘ quiet countryside ’ when it was next to a military base , ’ says the Advertising Standards Authority in a report today . |
| 4 | To buy now and pay later was n't just bad economics , it was next to sinfulness . |
| 5 | It was next to a postcard-seller , and to get to it you had to go past a row of very strange postcards stuck on the railings : views of Cairo , oleographs of Levantine saints , scenes of the Massacre of the Marmelukes and from the Great War of Independence , portraits of the Madonna and of St Catherine , and , of course , hundreds of indecent photographs , very precise in some respects , strangely vague in others . |
| 6 | It was next , it was next to H & T Hornes and erm I , I think they used to do the casting there and then all the castings had to come into , for us to file and it was hard work but er there was erm a big bell to tell us when to stop work and that was outside and there was a big notice in the department , wait for the bell or |