Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [be] waiting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 2 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 3 | That 's why Sangenic is the invention that disposable nappies have been waiting for . |
| 4 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 6 | Ever since the 1917 Revolution , Russian women have been waiting for things to improve — and they are still waiting . |
| 7 | An anxious mother has been waiting by the telephone to hear if her son faces a long jail term in India . |