Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the incumbent for Peterborough , the seat which , arithmetically , need to fall to Labour if they are to form the next government with an overall majority . |
| 2 | If the Tories were to form the next government then Chris Patten would be found a seat , if necessary . |
| 3 | His Graduation Fanfare is to open the next Alumni Foundation Concert which will feature works by Back , Torelli , Handel , and Purcell . |
| 4 | ‘ The idea is to inspire the next generation of comedians to think of radio first and launch their careers with us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 5 | As a Conservative I naturally want the Government to survive and to win the next election , but plainly if the Deputy Prime Minister resigns that is something which gives cause for readjustment and rethinking if the Government is to win the next election . |
| 6 | IXI , meanwhile , is to release the next iteration of its graphical user interface manager , X.desktop 3.5 , in June . |
| 7 | The dream is to house the next administration ; the nightmare is to house the last one . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't you tell them , ’ Sheppard whispered to Kingsley Martin during a meeting with Gregg , ‘ that we have n't time for all this intensive cultivation and that our job is to stop the next bloody war . ’ |
| 9 | But this is to anticipate the next chapter . |
| 10 | FRANK CHAMBERLAIN , the 64-year-old chairman of Northamptonshire , is to become the next chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board , succeeding Raman Subba Row who steps down next October . |
| 11 | FRANK CHAMBERLAIN , the 64-year-old chairman of Northamptonshire , is to become the next chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board , succeeding Raman Subba Row who steps down next October . |
| 12 | Jo Siffert was to go the next year in a non-championship race at Brands Hatch . |
| 13 | Later he was to advise the next Lord Petre on planting around a proposed new home and again he wrote to Bartram for plants . |
| 14 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 15 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 16 | It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year . |
| 17 | Among the many notable prisoners taken was Charles , duke of Orléans , who was to spend the next quarter of a century an honourable captive in England , developing a considerable talent as a poet in both French and English . |
| 18 | Wilcock was to spend the next thirty years attempting to put it into practice . |
| 19 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 20 | Nana 's form was to skip the next two hundred years of Jamaican history and tell Martha how her husband had gone away to work in Panama and never come back , and how Martha 's own father was in America now . |