Example sentences of "wait for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This puts industry off voluntary controls and it tends to wait for a law to be brought in .
2 Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays .
3 Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there .
4 on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures .
5 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 ?
6 Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax .
7 He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived .
8 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 .
9 With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today .
10 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
11 Each call sent out by a client has to wait for a response before another is sent .
12 But they may have to wait for a year , and maybe even two , before the brief , dramatic cycle can begin all over again .
13 For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company .
14 First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own .
15 I urge the assembly to accept this amendment to depart from this statement , to commend to our churches the use of the apostle 's creed and to wait for a day of broad theological agreement which in the providence of God and by the work of the holy spirit will surely come and then agree upon a statement of faith which we shall all agree and be able to commend enthusiastically to the church but until then to depart from this one .
16 Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory .
17 He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow .
18 At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic .
19 A day longer to wait for a letter !
20 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 .
21 What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week .
22 I decided to wait for a review — you know what Microsoft 's other support lines are like .
23 Perhaps I am prepared to wait for a miracle .
24 Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh .
25 You can use GET and GET$ whenever you want your program to wait for a reply before continuing .
26 They had to be willing , too , to wait for a place to become available .
27 It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) .
28 Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature .
29 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 .
30 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 ?
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