Example sentences of "[modal v] have to wait [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Opposition Chief Whip Derek Foster , Bishop Auckland 's Labour MP , welcomed the news no one should have to wait longer than two years for treatment but called for reassurances that figures had not been ‘ massaged ’ .
2 The next step is to ensure that , from March , no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement or a cataract operation .
3 To ensure that progress on waiting times continues , we intend that from 31 March 1993 , no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement , or a cataract operation .
4 Tories have already pledged that no one will have to wait more than two years for treatment and from March 31 , 1992 they say no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement , or a cataract operation .
5 ‘ Then they 'll have to wait longer .
6 ‘ You 'll have to wait just a little while , Monsieur Gravellier , ’ one had said .
7 He 's had a letter from Hereford General Hospital telling him he 'll have to wait again because the hospital has run out of money .
8 Now he 'll have to wait again !
9 Maybe you 'll have to wait up and pay for a cab to bring them home .
10 ‘ You 'll have to wait now until she 's gone , ’ Lily said .
11 There 's a lot of fatigue in pregnancy , and a model might have to wait around with nothing to do .
12 Given the nature of fluent speech we might have to wait indefinitely .
13 He wondered about making himself a hot drink but he 'd have to wait too long to drink it .
14 But she may have to wait up to eighteen months for surgery .
15 As we may have to wait even until the summer , tempers may get a little tetchy , as last night 's closing session proved .
16 Investors may have to wait longer than they anticipate before enjoying maximum premiums .
17 HARD-UP university students from the Southern Board area may have to wait longer than usual for their grants after Thursday night 's bomb attack in Armagh badly damaged the Board 's offices .
18 The polls indicated that the result was too close to call and that Mr Major and Mr Kinnock may have to wait well into tomorrow morning to know who will form the next Government .
19 Health Authority figures show some outpatients who 've been referred by their GP to an orthapedic consultant there , may have to wait more than 2 years just to be seen .
20 If Rod or Jim were n't on the set on time , we would have to wait about until they arrived .
21 They would have to wait only very slightly more than a second between the astronaut 's 10:59:58 signal and the one that he sent when his watch read 10:59:59 , but they would have to wait forever for the 11:00 signal .
22 The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment .
23 Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment .
24 He wanted a cigarette , but that would have to wait too .
25 At last she sighed , realising she would have to wait patiently , so she said , ‘ OK — so you 're frustrated .
26 They would have to wait only very slightly more than a second between the astronaut 's 10:59:58 signal and the one that he sent when his watch read 10:59:59 , but they would have to wait forever for the 11:00 signal .
27 ‘ But it 's going to put an awful lot of island people to a lot of trouble , and it will mean many hundreds of them will have to wait even longer for jobs now . ’
28 Tories have already pledged that no one will have to wait more than two years for treatment and from March 31 , 1992 they say no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement , or a cataract operation .
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