Example sentences of "be [adv] waiting [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fascinating details of how it came to be are still waiting to be found . |
| 2 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 3 | The mechanisms behind these interactions are still waiting to be unravelled , but there are indications that small messenger molecules may be important . |
| 4 | In recent years , many examples of tool use in the animal world have come to light and there are no doubt others that are still waiting to be discovered . |
| 5 | So jewellers can not get their new stock hallmarked and 800,000 articles are now waiting to be examined before they can be put on sale . |
| 6 | This morning we slipped into Mansfield for coffee and a haircut ; and now I 'm just waiting to be relieved , and rush to the letter rack . |
| 7 | One suspects that most computer scientists would like to believe that elegant data structures for organising all forms of information , together with powerful formalisms for manipulating and reasoning about it , have always pre-existed in some sense , and were just waiting to be discovered . |
| 8 | Initially , it promised repayment out of a future parliamentary grant , but most lenders , possibly all , were still waiting to be repaid in 1529 , when Parliament absolved the King from all obligation to redeem this debt . |
| 9 | The treaty has been signed , sealed and is just waiting to be delivered . |
| 10 | Called Crimp 'n Curl , these cuddly cuties have hair that 's just waiting to be styled . |
| 11 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 12 | Yet you can also measure the number of open files , how much correspondence is still waiting to be answered , the rate at which telephone calls are answered within the department , the initial claims against the settlements and therefore the gain or loss on estimates . |
| 13 | Bob is still waiting to be summoned by Paisley Hospital , but luckily he has had very little trouble meanwhile . |
| 14 | Oxfordshire 's Harry Taylor , on the left , is now waiting to be airlifted to hospital for treatment for snow blindness and a frost bitten foot . |
| 15 | On some doorsteps the milk was still waiting to be taken in . |
| 16 | She laughed , then knew she must make a move to release herself from his embrace — otherwise he 'd imagine she was actually waiting to be kissed . |