Example sentences of "[conj] waiting for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 2 | The police had only recently organized a stake-out in a house just down the road , watching and waiting for a serial murderer to call in at his mother 's council flat to collect his laundry . |
| 3 | In contrast , Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Office were keeping tight-lipped and waiting for a final decision to be made known today or tomorrow . |
| 4 | It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out . |
| 5 | Dad 's Army and waiting for the final push — ( l-r ) Hill , Teague ( obscured ) , Winterbottom , Dooley , Probyn and Ackford ( the only one to have retired so far ) . |
| 6 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 7 | They left within two days of his release , leaving me tired , dazed , relieved and waiting for the Second Son to come ‘ home ’ for yet another week-end . |
| 8 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 9 | It felt rather like laying herself in front of an approaching juggernaut and waiting for the inevitable annihilation to follow … |
| 10 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 11 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 12 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |
| 18 | While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds . |