Example sentences of "while wait for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , facing into the wind while waiting for a launch , a tyre on the wing-tip is just a convenient way of preventing the wing from lifting off the ground . |
| 2 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 3 | HIGHLY-publicised incidents of patients who die on trolleys in accident and emergency units while waiting for a hospital bed are the rare consequences of the extreme pressure under which most units work . |
| 4 | Problems have arisen at King 's College Hospital , London , where large numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for up to 30 hours in the accident and emergency unit while waiting for a bed . |
| 5 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 6 | While waiting for a flight she was asked to do some translating at one of the jungle lodges . |
| 7 | It was while waiting for a train on Uxbridge Station that the sight of a poster for the Tower Furnishing Company inspired W. S. Gilbert to write The Yeomen of the Guard . |
| 8 | Mr Brown was freed while waiting for a decision on the appeal . |
| 9 | The girl , who was pounced on while waiting for a train at Mexborough , South Yorkshire , was treated in hospital for head wounds . |
| 10 | Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ? |
| 11 | According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision . |
| 12 | While waiting for a reply , Franco decided to make a direct appeal to Hitler on the Nazi Party network , through certain members of the German business community in Morocco . |
| 13 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 14 | It is estimated that over 30 species have become extinct while waiting for a listing . |
| 15 | He disappeared from a parking lot while waiting for a Mafia contact , from where flashbacks of his past are reconstructed . |