Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ ? |
| 2 | Should be the next page |
| 3 | I do n't know what he wants , it could be the Permanent Under-Secretary 's Department , it might be the next Director-General of Six … |
| 4 | that 'll be the next hurdle , I mean we have n't got to that hurdle . |
| 5 | You could be the next victim |
| 6 | For such men , enclosure of their lands could be the next step ( 62 ) , and it is worth remembering that even John Hales , the mid-sixteenth-century opponent of enclosures , was prepared to admit that enclosure per se was not necessarily evil : his particular concern was with the turning of arable fields into pasture ( 58 , p.180 ) . |
| 7 | Sponsorship of the FA Cup — along with three other backers — could be the next item on the company 's agenda , as exclusively revealed in the Daily Mirror this week . |
| 8 | The Midland Bank has been mopped up by Hong Kong Shanghai and RBS , down 3p at 187p , could be the next target . |
| 9 | The decision was taken in response to fears that the town could be the next target in the current IRA bomb blitz . |
| 10 | A United States intelligence report has suggested India 's capital , New Delhi , could be the next target . |
| 11 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 12 | How do you know but that you may be the next child that may die ? … |
| 13 | This is part of a general trend towards simpler , cheaper and quicker forms of dispute resolution ( see 16.6 ) , and it may be the next stage of the history of expert determination . |
| 14 | ‘ And who would be the next year 's chairman otherwise ? ’ asked Rose , guessing the answer . |
| 15 | President Patricio Aylwin Azócar was told by US President Bush on May 14 , during his first official visit to the USA since taking office in March 1990 , that Chile would be the next country with which the US would negotiate a free trade agreement , after the completion of talks between the USA , Mexico and Canada to establish a North American Free Trade Area ( NAFTA — see p. 38761 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Duncan had not returned Armstrong by six , so I presumed it would be the next morning . |
| 18 | Then after you had finished the sowing , that would be the next job . |
| 19 | Technical groups have reportedly advanced the shared SVR4-OSF/1 application programming interface to the draft stage — that effort will continue over ACE 's dead body — creating a workable application binary interface would be the next step . |
| 20 | ‘ Pro patria mori ’ , ‘ Die for your country ’ , would be the next step . |
| 21 | Unequivocal or not , it would n't do to open the door in the altogether — though with any luck , that would be the next step … |
| 22 | The clearing house would be the next step , he said , but over the longer term . |
| 23 | So far , Lucien had not sullied his art by performing to music , but he was aware that as soon as Sabraxis had approved his ability , that would be the next thing he 'd have to learn . |
| 24 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's heard of your father 's heart attack , and wants reassurance — personal reassurance — that I will be the next chairman of the international network , which of course includes all dealings in Auckland . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You will be the next person to know of it , be assured , Archdeacon . ’ |
| 27 | Jobs is positioning NeXTStep as a means to ride what he believes will be the next wave in IT — custom applications . |
| 28 | It is essential to decide now whether William or Charles will be the next king for the sake of the constitution . |
| 29 | It is hoped that since the breed is becoming numerically stronger , it will be the next step taken . |
| 30 | will be the next production of the DOWN TO EARTH company . |