Example sentences of "[vb infin] wait [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moss says independent software vendors do n't need to wait for Unix suppliers to release integrated offerings to begin application development and porting work — if they develop to TME now , applications should move across to integrated operating systems ‘ almost intact , ’ he claims . |
| 2 | Moss says independent software vendors do n't need to wait for Unix suppliers to release integrated offerings to begin application development and conversion work — if they develop to TME now , applications should move across to integrated operating systems ‘ almost intact , ’ he claims . |
| 3 | Well , you do n't really need to wait until Hallowe'en to tell monster jokes — any old dark and stormy night will do . |
| 4 | This time he did n't have to wait with trepidation for the entrance of Gesner . |
| 5 | We 'll have to wait for permission from the expatriate lady in Sweden . ’ |
| 6 | Suggestive crop-marks at the point where the projected line of the defences meets the emerging east-west street have also been photographed from the air , but proof of another gate here will have to wait for excavation . |
| 7 | The user does not have to wait for interpretation , but can write ahead and subsequently correct errors . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll just have to wait for Dad then , wo n't I ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have to wait for morning . |
| 10 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But Ramsden 's ( illustrated ) did n't have to wait for television to make its name . |
| 13 | Certainly he was not waiting to see Artai — the Khan of the Merkuts was so powerful that he did not have to wait for audience like other men . |
| 14 | Sorry , you 'll have to wait for daddy 's clear . |
| 15 | Bitstream are intending to get round this limitation by getting in league with the various page description language manufacturers and producing real-time fonts through their languages but as none of these are currently delivering we will have to wait in order to judge the result . |
| 16 | Her proof is in the restaurant trade : ‘ Even fast food restaurants ( do ) not seem fast , because at home you do n't have to wait in line . ’ |
| 17 | She asked , ’ What is the NHS coming to , that I should have to wait in pain , discomfort and distress for my operation ? ’ |
| 18 | Well she 'll have to wait till Easter that 's all , and when she comes back at Easter time |
| 19 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 20 | If none of them proved correct they would have to wait until dawn and call out a helicopter , by which time it would probably be too late . |
| 21 | As for the effects of the Act , an overall assessment of its impact on the use of custody will have to wait until Chapter 10 because of the need to deal also with the provisions relating to community penalties and parole . |
| 22 | If Panin had had his way , peasants would have waited for land indefinitely . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher replied that the government could have waited for inflation to come down . |
| 24 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd go again today if it did n't mean waiting in line till a month from Monday , ’ said USA Today reviewer Mike Clark . |
| 26 | This unexpected development was accompanied by a White House statement which said that " the nation can no longer afford to wait for Congress to act " on proposed legislation to allow inter-state banking . |