Example sentences of "be the next good thing " 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 | They will not win the World Cup , but going further than England would be the next best thing . |
| 4 | In the absence of a ticket to San Francisco they felt that London would have to be the next best thing . |
| 5 | Attacking it with a nailfile is the next best thing — hang on , I 'll show you . ’ |
| 6 | When original composition is too demanding , translation , sometimes with original additions , is the next best thing . |
| 7 | As an alternative to undergravel filters , funds permitting , the use of a power filter is the next best thing . |
| 8 | If you accept that unanimity is a near Impossibility , and that a majority decision is the next best thing , you also have to accept , as a general rule , that you will abide by a majority decision when it turns out that you are among the minority . |
| 9 | they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves . |
| 10 | I made do with peripheral vision , which , after all , is the next best thing . |
| 11 | I consoled myself ; for if it is not possible to be free , perhaps to be hidden is the next best thing , and Lili 's presence gave me , as the hours went by , the feeling that I was growing less visible . |
| 12 | ‘ Epos is the next best thing to a crystal ball , and we were able to use it to plan ahead . |
| 13 | If you are unable to visit ‘ The Planetarium ’ in London then this is the next best thing . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's the next best thing ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , we ca n't always guarantee the sun , but the pool 's the next best thing to the sea . ’ |
| 16 | Joan Gibbs says she really wanted a racehorse but could n't afford it and so she bought a greyhound and that 's the next best thing … it 's something of yours |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 19 | John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing . |
| 20 | But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I guess they figured calling their game Arnie was the next best thing to having a blockbusting movie title . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember this place when it was the next best thing to an orphanage . |
| 24 | It was impossible to distance herself physically in the small room — doing so mentally was the next best thing . |