Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 32 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 35 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 36 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 37 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 38 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 39 | He says it is not acceptable to have to wait for 2 years . |
| 40 | Well he 's so badly parked you see , he 's got to wait for both traffics to go whereas I could go easily |
| 41 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 42 | They have been established in recognition of the fact that it is pointless to wait for public sympathy and a change of political will to improve the level of basic old age pensions , and the quality of life for older people generally . |
| 43 | Thus for a proper appreciation of the distinction between " slow " and " fast " you have to wait for electromagnetic waves to be introduced , discussed , and digested . |
| 44 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 45 | Except that in my case there was no need to wait for seven years . |
| 46 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 47 | He was eating nacho chips and drinking beer from the bottle and listening as Hilary Todd told him to forget about Piper , to stay in London , to wait for further instructions . |
| 48 | At first Clare decided to wait for further information from Tess 's mother , but then he re-read the letter sent on to him in Brazil , written from Flintcomb-Ash : |
| 49 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 50 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 51 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 52 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 53 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 54 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 55 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 56 | ‘ We will not stop ( reforms ) to wait for any decisions from the G7 , whether we receive aid or not , ’ he told reporters . |
| 57 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 58 | Odyssey also comes with host mode which means you can set your computer to wait for incoming calls . |
| 59 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 60 | But I am afraid this will have to wait for another occasion . ’ |