Example sentences of "[noun] have to wait " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Fans had to wait almost year before the song eventually appeared on vinyl .
3 Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday .
4 The British had never envisaged such a rapid build-up to this situation : India 's constitution was not finalised until 1950 , while Pakistan had to wait until 1956 for its soon-overthrown constitution !
5 Hounslow had to wait until the second-half before England 's Martyn Grimley scored their first goal in a 3-0 win over Lyons , the Poundstretcher Second Division side .
6 Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials .
7 In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution .
8 The French manufacturers had to wait until 1892 for the Méline tariff , which meant an average duty of about 34 per cent on British goods .
9 Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties .
10 Unable to turn , Chant had to wait until the man walked past his supine body to get a sight of him .
11 Clearly , the development of futures markets in such countries has to wait until futures contracts are legally enforceable .
12 The last thing we want is approved contractors having to wait too long for their money .
13 But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time .
14 He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty .
15 Talking of Hampshire reminds us that the left-arm spinner Ian Turner had to wait till August before getting a Championship match .
16 That was in 1977 and Hope had to wait two years before making his second attempt .
17 For this , companies had to wait until 1855 ; and co-operatives until 1862 .
18 For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 .
19 Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved .
20 BRM 's F1 return had to wait until the new two-litre P25 was ready for its first full season in 1956 .
21 A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers .
22 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 .
23 Borrowers on a budget plan have to wait till the year is up before they can reap the benefits .
24 No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place .
25 Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period .
26 It was not a good place to have to wait , this time .
27 The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed .
28 The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop .
29 The honourable draw had to wait till Old Trafford , although over eleven hours were lost to the weather .
30 LAST YEAR Andy Nicol had to wait until August — five months after the event — to hold his 21st birthday party .
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