Example sentences of "[verb] wait for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 2 | An announcement in May confirming the selection of Glasgow removed earlier uncertainty , although final confirmation has to wait for a further consultation period until the end of June . |
| 3 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 4 | It is n't difficult to calculate how long we should reasonably expect to wait for the random computer ( or baby or monkey ) to type METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL . |
| 5 | For a second she felt as he must have felt waiting for the glowing metal to eat into the skin . |
| 6 | And another Quote of the Week ( and how long we have had to wait for the national press to notice what has been so obvious for so long ) : ‘ With Waterstones backed by W H Smith , and Pentos ’ gearing rising , there can be little doubt who has the deeper pockets to fight a protracted battle . |
| 7 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 8 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 9 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 10 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 11 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 12 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 13 | Similarly , Message Queue Interface should improve the efficiency with which loosely coupled systems work : travel agents , for example should be able to request flight information from one system and get straight on filling in other details without having to wait for the remote system to respond . |
| 14 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 15 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 16 | Currently , with strong competition from many units throughout Europe for available organs , many patients similar to those described herein would die waiting for a suitable donor organ . |
| 17 | He should have waited for a better moment instead of acting impulsively . |
| 18 | Can I afford to wait for a young child to discover such procedures ? |
| 19 | The decision of whether to prescribe an antidepressant should be made on the basis of whether the patient shows ‘ biological ’ features of depression which predict a good response ( e.g. early morning wakening , diurnal mood variation , and weight loss due to impaired appetite ) ; whether , in the case of severe depression , one can afford to wait for the delayed response of an antidepressant ; and the extent to which environmental factors seem largely to explain the symptoms . |
| 20 | Nicandra was standing waiting for a second turn at her reflection , her attitude a droop of pure unhappiness . |
| 21 | ‘ If you think I 'm standing waiting for a charging animal the size of a tank to reach me … how on earth do you grab its nose before it tramples you into the turf ? |
| 22 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 23 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 24 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 26 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 27 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 28 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 29 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 30 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |