Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] next " in BNC.

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1 Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’
2 ‘ And I 'm the next best thing ? ’
3 I 'm the next one I 'm gon na do I 'm gon na spread it down below nought so we 're getting into the negative numbers .
4 ‘ If anyone decided to make their political statement by shooting at an English cricketer , after Gower at the toss , I was the next Englishman to be involved on the field .
5 ‘ Would n't it be funny if I was the next Lady Mellor ? ’ she giggled to a friend in the heat of her affair with the Cabinet Casanova .
6 I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size .
7 now possible to deprive many a patient of a fulfilment of the wish to have a death of one 's own , the scene Dr. Rynearson ( whose work he is discussing ) describes is one of patients with an ‘ untreatable ’ disease being kept alive indefinitely by means of tubes inserted into their stomachs , or into their veins , or into their bladders , or into their rectums — and the whole sad scene thus created encompassed within a cocoon of oxygen which is the next thing to a shroud .
8 Which is the main source of fuel and which is the next largest ?
9 It would be very dangerous , which is the next point .
10 On the other hand , under-exposure causes problems which will be apparent when you come to develop the exposed board , which is the next stage of processing .
11 When he is caught it is his trial which is the next stage of the criminal justice system to attract media attention .
12 And there was this parish here , Wenhaston , and Westleton which is the next one , there were about a hundred and fifty men went to sea out of these two parishes .
13 Day 2 Chairs — The issue is do we record them when the purchase is made or only on delivery which is the next day .
14 Reconvene at two and then go straight into matter C which is the next section .
15 The syllables ‘ in an ’ form a pre-head , which is the next component of the tone-unit to be introduced .
16 And you had two hours , fifty two minutes , right , so which is the next one , this one ?
17 Right which is the next easiest one to work out ?
18 But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing .
19 Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store .
20 Finnish had fewer words per sentence on average , but had 48 per cent of words with six or more letters , 19 per cent more than German , which was the next highest .
21 Darnley himself was the next to die .
22 You are the next of kin . ’
23 Find out if you 're the next Bateman .
24 It 's cheaper than eating here , and when you 're the next Nirvana , rather than the current one , every penny counts .
25 The international nature of the event was represented by Charlotte Teske ( GER ) and Wanda Turo ( USA ) who were the next home .
26 Who 's the next customer .
27 Who 's the next customer after you Maggie seeing as you changed order ?
28 Now who 's the next man ?
29 on the eve of their wedding her wedding veil is rent by an intruder , who Rochester assures her is a servant Grace Poole but who is the next day revealed to be his mad Creole wife Bertha , confined to the upper regions of the hall for years , whose unseen presence has long disturbed Jane .
30 No doubt we were the next day .
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