Example sentences of "have to wait for [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , Empirical Socialism did not have to wait for Keynes to propound the idea of demand-led growth as the solution to the recurrent crises in Capitalism . |
| 2 | A trade agreement provided for a reduction of customs duties on goods traded by the two countries ( thus extending most favoured nation status to the Soviet Union and improving the competitiveness of each country 's goods in the other 's markets ) ; the agreement also provided for better copyright protection for US companies and for reductions in the time US companies would have to wait for approval to begin commercial operations in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | But Ramsden 's ( illustrated ) did n't have to wait for television to make its name . |
| 4 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll have to wait for Jeff to phone , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 7 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 8 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 10 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 11 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |