Example sentences of "have to wait [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 2 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said . |
| 5 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 6 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 7 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 8 | I normally work on a 33MHz 486 , and do n't ever have to wait much for anything to happen . |
| 9 | They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was . |
| 10 | But we 'll have to wait five days until Sunday before we can meet Nancy on London Bridge . |
| 11 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 12 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 13 | BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market . |
| 14 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 15 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 16 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 17 | And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope I do n't have to wait all night . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Coun Shephard , who is chairman of the district 's environmental health committee , said he had spoken to two families who were told only last month they would have to wait 50 weeks . |
| 21 | About 60 p.c. will be A bonds , so investors expecting redemption in 1994 may have to wait several extra years for full repayment : holders are likely to seek higher interest rates as compensation . |
| 22 | It looks as if Mr Franklin and other shareholders will have to wait another three weeks for news on that front . |
| 23 | But that is a matter for an extensive argument which will have to wait another occasion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But , on this evidence , the 31-year-old former England international wo n't have to wait another ten months before linking up again . |
| 26 | City banks may have to wait another year or so . |
| 27 | Failing that , it would have to wait another twelve months . |
| 28 | ‘ Is that a promise , Chris , or will I have to wait another six months before I bump into you — literally ? ’ |
| 29 | Well lads , he says , I 'm sorry you 'll have to wait another hour . |
| 30 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |