Example sentences of "be the [adj] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | London seemed to be the obvious next step , but Clayton had other ideas . |
| 2 | In the context of acute hospitals in the NHS , it is the logical next stage to follow case-mix accounting , and could be introduced with some changes to the funding structures of the NHS . |
| 3 | However , the UDC is not a bolt from the blue , rather , it is the logical next step in a process which began in the 1970s with the concept of urban aid and of central intervention in local affairs . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope you 've warned him that he 's the obvious next target . ’ |
| 5 | Hobson 's belief that protectionism was the logical next step for imperialist politics was reinforced by the launching of Joseph Chamberlain 's Tariff Reform campaign in 1902 . |
| 6 | It was the logical next step . |
| 7 | Years later Simenon put La Caque into a Maigret novel , characterising its members as so jaded by drink , sex and drugs that murder was the obvious next step . |