Example sentences of "to wait [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lutton , reasonably happy with his performance in last weekend 's Irish trials in Dublin , accepts he may have to wait that little bit longer to gain Irish recognition . |
| 2 | no I know , they have to wait that 's it , got to be quite left in the shop today were n't we ? |
| 3 | But erm but he still had to wait that 's what 's crap . |
| 4 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 5 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 6 | and we still have to wait half an hour ! |
| 7 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 8 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 9 | Then I had to wait some three years , and the attitude in hospital and lack of administrative efficiency was unpleasantly conspicuous . |
| 10 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 11 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 12 | " Would n't it be better to wait some , Dad ? " yelled Chuck as his father reached a narrow defile between the thorns . |
| 13 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 14 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 15 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 16 | I 'm sixty years of age and while I 'm prepared to plant the woods for my grandson , I 'd like to see some growth myself I ca n't afford to wait forty years . " |
| 17 | Q : We may be improving customer service for our end users by faster delivery of ware , but what about the employee shop — we still have to wait 3–4 months sometimes for ware . |
| 18 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 19 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 20 | Robinson has a daughter who has to wait 12 months for an operation , it is no use telling her that 10 , 20 , or 25 years ago the situation was similar or much worse , because Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Robinson will still consider that the NHS is unsatisfactory today , and will naturally blame the Government . |
| 21 | It looks as if Mr Franklin and other shareholders will have to wait another three weeks for news on that front . |
| 22 | But that is a matter for an extensive argument which will have to wait another occasion . |
| 23 | The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop . |
| 24 | Now I 've got to wait another month ’ . |
| 25 | But there was nothing that I or anyone else could do about it ; she , and we , had to wait another six months before she was finally gathered . |
| 26 | THREE Welshmen held in a Spanish jail for 17 months over the stabbing of a Turk were yesterday told they will have to wait another six months to be tried . |
| 27 | But , on this evidence , the 31-year-old former England international wo n't have to wait another ten months before linking up again . |
| 28 | City banks may have to wait another year or so . |
| 29 | But the Conservative conversion , at Disraeli 's prompting , to the cause of reform , had to wait another fifteen years . |
| 30 | We were to wait another six weeks before the fierce summer heat showed any sign of breaking . |