Example sentences of "[noun pl] have to wait [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French manufacturers had to wait until 1892 for the Méline tariff , which meant an average duty of about 34 per cent on British goods . |
| 2 | But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time . |
| 3 | For this , companies had to wait until 1855 ; and co-operatives until 1862 . |
| 4 | For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 . |
| 5 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |
| 6 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 7 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 8 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 9 | Trains had to wait upon the cows and were frequently late in consequence : |
| 10 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 11 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 12 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 13 | Doctors have been working over weekends to reduce the time patients have to wait for operations . |
| 14 | When a patient is detained under the MHA 1983 , but the physical disorder is not caused by or is not itself the cause of a mental disorder , a restrictive interpretation of this proposal could lead to the ridiculous scenario of doctors having to wait for such a patient to deteriorate or become unconscious before medical treatment could be initiated under the protection of common law duty of care and the doctrine of necessity . |
| 15 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 16 | Police had to wait before giving Jacko an escort to the M4 . |
| 17 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 18 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 19 | However , shrouded children had to wait until 1467 before being considered worthy of commemoration , and their introduction is a dramatic one on the 1467 Astley brass at Standon in Hertfordshire where ten swathed infants , four girls and six boys , are shown . |
| 20 | With Lloyd Davies in a new attacking role , the combination took time to settle , and crowds had to wait until the 1911–12 season to see the old magic at work again . |
| 21 | Marty Tabb almost grabbed an immediate equaliser when he rattled the crossbar from 18 yards , but the Reds had to wait until the 55th minute to get back on level terms . |
| 22 | Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more . |
| 23 | Passengers and sailors had to wait until 1931 for a ship with stabilizers . |
| 24 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 25 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 26 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |