Example sentences of "be next " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 2 | For other prey , a rat for instance , death would be next . |
| 3 | She pretended to agree , suspecting that her time for trying the landlady 's leniency would be next . |
| 4 | We name but a few — will your local brewery be next ? |
| 5 | Richard Worth , producer of Saint and Greavsie , will be next to leave and Jim Rosenthal , the public face of ITV athletics whose contract has expired , is considering an offer from a satellite channel as well as one from ITV . |
| 6 | The Newcastle Evening Chronicle reported the story under the headline ‘ United supporter to be next Pope ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Our understanding is that if it does go to court , the hearing will be next year . ’ |
| 8 | Drama and situation comedy are likely to be next . |
| 9 | It could be next month . |
| 10 | This , they said , should accompany the ‘ profound managerial change ’ which must be next on the agenda , somehow to tackle Londoners ' personal and local dissatisfaction with the police . |
| 11 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 12 | I told Tony that he would be next and he was . |
| 13 | And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants . |
| 14 | They might be next . |
| 15 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 16 | The witnesses immediately before him painted a picture of an elaborate liar , one whose testimony could probably not be trusted under oath , and of a petty thief who bought lingerie , so it appeared , with money meant for the contras ; some committee members considered him such a ‘ wacko ’ , in the patois , that his testimony would be next to useless . |
| 17 | So , by the time tax is calculated and paid , rates could be considerably lower than they might be next week . |
| 18 | It was hard to guess whether Mr Spock or Gianni de Michelis would be next on the screen . |
| 19 | Was she to be next in the circle ? |
| 20 | ‘ I am waiting to be next ’ , wrote Baxter , ‘ the door is open . |
| 21 | All he really wanted was to be next to O ; and you could see that the whole time he was listening , watching . |
| 22 | What 's it going to be next ? |
| 23 | He used to be next door to Ryan 's Son , but now Hopscotch is in Ryan 's old stable . |
| 24 | But you 're gon na be next if you do n't pull something out by second show Saturday yourself . |
| 25 | ‘ It could be next month or next week or tomorrow . |
| 26 | Aldershot , Farnham & District Athletic Club 's open days for school athletes will be next week . |
| 27 | Highly-perfumed products such as soap should not be next to foodstuffs which may become contaminated . |
| 28 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 29 | Will California be next ? |
| 30 | ‘ And that will be next week ? |