Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the next good " 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 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 4 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember this place when it was the next best thing to an orphanage . |
| 6 | John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing . |