Example sentences of "[noun pl] have to wait " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fans had to wait almost year before the song eventually appeared on vinyl . |
| 2 | In the mid-eighteenth century the linen industry made its appearance , though power looms had to wait till after the nineteenth century Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Clearly , the development of futures markets in such countries has to wait until futures contracts are legally enforceable . |
| 5 | The last thing we want is approved contractors having to wait too long for their money . |
| 6 | But important matters had to wait on his attention ; and , if he chose to withhold it , might wait for some time . |
| 7 | For this , companies had to wait until 1855 ; and co-operatives until 1862 . |
| 8 | For example , no further summit meetings were arranged for quite some time , and the notion of regular summits had to wait until 1974 . |
| 9 | Rescuers had to wait 40 minutes while power to 780 homes at Shotton Colliery , Durham , was turned off before the body could be moved . |
| 10 | A new sense of harmony is unlikely to be developed if bored parents have to wait endlessly in long queues to see teachers . |
| 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The androids had to wait outside . |
| 15 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 16 | At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze . |
| 17 | since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ? |
| 18 | Even if other painters had to wait for their money , Zbo tried desperately hard to make sure that Modi did not go without . |
| 19 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 20 | Trains had to wait upon the cows and were frequently late in consequence : |
| 21 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |
| 22 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 23 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 24 | Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait . |
| 25 | The shadow health secretary Robin Cook has launched Labour 's campaign on the NHS with a visit to a hospital where some patients have to wait up to two years to see a consultant . |
| 26 | Doctors have been working over weekends to reduce the time patients have to wait for operations . |
| 27 | ‘ But the Northern Regional Health Authority document shows how long patients have to wait before they even reach that list . ’ |
| 28 | When a patient is detained under the MHA 1983 , but the physical disorder is not caused by or is not itself the cause of a mental disorder , a restrictive interpretation of this proposal could lead to the ridiculous scenario of doctors having to wait for such a patient to deteriorate or become unconscious before medical treatment could be initiated under the protection of common law duty of care and the doctrine of necessity . |
| 29 | The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured . |
| 30 | Police had to wait before giving Jacko an escort to the M4 . |