Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 2 | Without such action by the judge , Intel would have to wait for the new 80287 trial to be completed before the company could file any appeal . |
| 3 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 6 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 7 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 8 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 9 | She had nothing else quite so effective to wear for the other two acts , but this , for her first entrance , for establishing herself as Countess Maritza , did absolutely everything . |
| 10 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 12 | It could also pay to go for the next larger filter if your pond is alternatively stocked . |
| 13 | Unlike the crab louse , the mite of scabies lays its eggs under the skin surface , and to do this it needs to burrow through the thick outer layer of the shin . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it forgot to plan for the needed new council chamber within that civic centre . |
| 15 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 16 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 17 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 18 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 19 | If the local authority knows that it wishes to privatise and not use local authority employees at all , it does not have to go through the compulsory tender procedure . |
| 20 | When the Minister next talks to the local authorities about this issue , will he point out that many of them no longer give rehousing priority to ex-service personnel , but expect them to go through the normal homeless families procedures ? |
| 21 | In this case , you have to go through the full manual routine as outlined above , stopping on play-pause and switching back to record-pause when you reach the desired edit-out point on the previous recording . |
| 22 | Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up , you 'll go straight into Windows . |
| 23 | It is possible now to go through the whole liberal arts course at Stanford University without ever reading Shakespeare ( a DWEM ) and there are many musems in the US now which can not contemplate an exhibition without first measuring it up against the PC yardstick . |
| 24 | In other words you essentially had the choice on the spot of saying , ‘ Yes , I certainly did it , and here 's my fiver or whatever it is , ’ or ‘ No I do n't agree with you and I would like to go through the proper judicial procedures . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 26 | If I do not wish to continue after the three monthly issues I will write and let you know within 10 days of receiving my third issue and will not owe you a penny . |
| 27 | He will not , though , be able to work off the remaining seven games until he joins a new club . |
| 28 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 29 | The syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with the necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a slight tendency to increase during the first six days whereas the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis decreased . |
| 30 | He begins to long for the happy carefree days when he was single . |