Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million . |
| 2 | Mr Willasey expected the latest document to last through most of the 1990s , but it would be reviewed subject to any changes in fashion trends . |
| 3 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
| 4 | Sabine had expected the civil ceremony conducted by the mayor to be a formal , rather bureaucratic business , but it was very much a family affair , celebrated among neighbours who had known the bride and groom since birth . |
| 5 | Expect the Young Ones crossed with Beetlejuice , Kevin Turvey meets the Female Brat Pack ( Phoebe Cates , Bridget Fonda ) and an example of how to make an Anglo-American film and make it work . |
| 6 | Some analysts pointed to a further fall of 13,000 in manufacturing jobs which could indicate the overall fall may be due to problems with seasonal adjustments , and expect the upward trend to resume in March . |
| 7 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 8 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
| 9 | We expect the final PPG Note to be compatible with existing guidance . |
| 10 | They expect the year-end result to crash from £211m to about £160m to £170m . |
| 11 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 12 | In effect , as McKay and Cox indicate ( 1979 , p. 255 ) , ‘ no sensible observer inside government or out could expect the limited measure announced in 1977 to transform the inner city ’ . |
| 13 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |
| 14 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 15 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 16 | Persons buying products bearing those names are entitled to expect the particular standards associated with them . |
| 17 | If Patrick had been expecting the small man to head up Grafton Street , then he was disappointed ; the guide continued on past the bottom of the crowded street , passing Yeates & Son , the opticians with the giant spectacle frame hanging outside the shop , heading into Nassau Street and then he turned right into Dawson Street . |
| 18 | If the interviewer remains silent then look at her or him as if you are expecting the next move to come from their side . |
| 19 | We were expecting the American model to arrive in Europe with pleasurable anticipation , accepting its inevitability . |
| 20 | This time , the ITB expects the participating firms to score at least £5m in direct sales . |
| 21 | He expects the experimental error to fall to 1 per cent . |
| 22 | It expects the commercial market to grow to $20.8b by 1996 with 25% accounted for by Unix OLTP solutions and a further 25% by Unix OLTP solutions with a TP monitor . |