Example sentences of "[noun pl] waiting to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days of the Bestiary and the Emblem Book , animal pictures had shown the world of Aesop 's fables ; butterflies giving us a symbol of resurrection , and also of feckless enjoyment , in pictures waiting to be decoded . |
| 2 | The offer was backdated to April , and there were now arrears waiting to be picked up varying from £653 to £12,090 ; she hoped they would consider that it was a reasonable offer . |
| 3 | Pupils are empty vessels waiting to be filled from the teacher 's stock of expert knowledge . |
| 4 | Children … are not vessels waiting to be filled up with knowledge , but rather active seekers of solutions to problems . |
| 5 | During one , she was told there were 55 emergencies waiting to be dealt with . |
| 6 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 7 | Few will tire of the vast range of activities and attractions offered by these resorts , but for a change , the incomparable beauty of Venice — Italy 's unique waterways city of stunning mirror image landscapes — attracts like a magnet few will resist , and further afield , Veneto unfolds a host of other magical towns and monuments waiting to be explored . |
| 8 | Like rows of tulips in buckets waiting to be bought . |
| 9 | Even at the time the study group that was planning the establishment of the Committee for Arts and Social Studies met in April 1965 there were proposals waiting to be processed in business studies , languages , sociology , psychology , administration , economics , law and ‘ combined subjects ’ , with business studies leading the field in both honours and ordinary degree course proposals by a wide margin . |
| 10 | There are a few surprises in the music itself , no neglected giants waiting to be discovered ( not , at least , on the strength of the music recorded here ) . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're a lady of mystery , full of secrets waiting to be unlocked , but that 's no problem . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to ‘ rebuild ’ Britain 's competitiveness if the basis for that rebuilding are derelict industrial estates waiting to be grassed over with the help of Government landscaping grants . |
| 13 | Four transports carrying a total of 124 children came from Danzig , travelling by train via Berlin to the Hook where they joined up with other groups waiting to be ferried across to Harwich . |
| 14 | In a simultaneous raid at a house in Cranham , Essex , they found more than A MILLION capsules waiting to be filled with the chemically-produced drug . |
| 15 | Large patient throughput in hospitals can undoubtedly give the impression of excessive use if patients spend many hours waiting to be seen or queuing for drugs . |
| 16 | It was originally used for prisoners waiting to be deported to Australia , and it also housed the infamous Crippen and Christie who were both hanged and buried there . |
| 17 | There are two splinters waiting to be removed and one cut thumb soaking in the Women 's Dressing Room . |
| 18 | In the heart of old Roman medinas are bustling , colourful souks waiting to be explored , with bargains in copper , poetry and leather to be haggled for . |
| 19 | Once collected , Third World genes are stored in company vaults or government gene banks waiting to be incorporated into seeds patented and controlled by the multinational companies which monopolize the patents . |
| 20 | This highlighted the need for the regeneration of the Essex manufacturing base , and a series of seminars are now to be held to discover how many people have workable ideas waiting to be put into practice . |
| 21 | Heading east from Poole in Dorset right along to Dover in Kent there are sights to see and bargain breaks waiting to be snapped up . |
| 22 | The railways were seen as ‘ colonization [ sic ] pioneers ’ for a huge agricultural country with vast mineral and other resources waiting to be exploited . |
| 23 | This approach can never tell us that there are no more ( even more subtle ) equivalences waiting to be discovered . |
| 24 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 25 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 26 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 27 | We continued on past the stink and stench of the Shambles where the lowing of the cattle waiting to be slaughtered jangled our nerves and hurt our ears . |
| 28 | Inpatient waiting times have long been the focus of attention , but for many patients waiting to be admitted to hospital is just the tip of a ‘ waiting iceberg . ’ |
| 29 | We have shown that information does not sit in discrete reservoirs waiting to be tapped . |
| 30 | Werra is also an expectant mother — with two embryo transfer foals waiting to be born to German surrogate mares . |