Example sentences of "have to wait for a " in BNC.

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1 Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory .
2 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
3 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
4 An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June .
5 What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week .
6 Or whether you 've had to wait for an hour in the rain for the bus to come along , whether you 're in a good mood or a bad mood .
7 To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek .
8 Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation .
9 I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road .
10 On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor .
11 But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again .
12 At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met .
13 It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver .
14 But the point of our ‘ numbers of planets ’ argument is that , even if the chemist said that we 'd have to wait for a ‘ miracle ’ , have to wait a billion billion years — far longer than the universe has existed , we can still accept this verdict with equanimity .
15 Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ?
16 Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ?
17 I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ?
18 Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ?
19 Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side .
20 Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer .
21 But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn .
22 Does the Minister agree with the view therefore , that nurses that nurses should be given the authority to admit patients to hospital provided there is a bed without having to wait for a decision to be to be made by a doctor ?
23 Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal .
24 But , alas , she was destined to have to wait for an answer , as Nettie , the housekeeper , chose that very moment to come into the room carrying a tea-tray .
25 But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery .
26 I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography .
27 He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived .
28 Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long .
29 Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature .
30 Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount .
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