Example sentences of "[subord] wait for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself .
2 Rather than wait for the groaning lift , I use the stairs .
3 Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth .
4 You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter .
5 Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ?
6 Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income .
7 The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break .
8 According to Le Monde of Nov. 22 the number of asylum seekers ( who came especially from eastern Europe ) had risen to 1,700 per month , and a new law to speed the processing of asylum applications stipulated that these should be processed within two months , after which an applicant recognized as a refugee could take up provisional residence while waiting for a definitive decision .
9 Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train .
10 While waiting for the great day we watched nearly every match of the 1990 World Cup , particularly the progress of England and Ireland in the early rounds .
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