Example sentences of "to wait [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 3 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he has to wait 12 months to join an NHS waiting list and two more years before he can have the surgery . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But that is a matter for an extensive argument which will have to wait another occasion . |
| 13 | Well lads , he says , I 'm sorry you 'll have to wait another hour . |
| 14 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 15 | He could n't bear to wait another day , but then the letter finished in a scrawl , messy and rushed , because , I suppose , they had to go and capture some hill or bit of wood . |
| 16 | City banks may have to wait another year or so . |
| 17 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 18 | The Defence budget would stand buying another catapult tomorrow ; my crossbow would just have to wait another week or so . |
| 19 | Now I 've got to wait another month ’ . |
| 20 | The Edinburgh council official who 's paid for doing nothing will have to wait another month , before a decision is made on his future . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Knowsley have been made to wait 10 days before they can attempt to put last weekend 's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Alfreton behind them . |
| 22 | " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit . |
| 23 | Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay . |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 25 | Further , if the recipient does not wish to wait six months he can serve a notice on the sender in which case , if the sender does not come within one month to collect them , they then become an unconditional gift . |
| 26 | He only had to wait 6–8 weeks . |
| 27 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |
| 28 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 29 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 30 | Therefore a firm would have to wait three months before they could determine this charge which is not timely for management purposes . |