Example sentences of "[noun] expect [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most researchers expect global temperatures to have experienced about half the predicted equilibrium temperature by the 2030s , that is , 1–2 C warmer than it is now . |
| 2 | The report also warns drinkers to expect big differences in prices between locals in the same town , with upmarket pubs in prime locations charging more than a no-frills bar on the outskirts . |
| 3 | The National Gallery expects huge crowds and strong sales of the Barnes 's first colour catalogue , published by Knopf and printed handsomely by Pizzi . |
| 4 | Viewers have a right to expect serious events , serious issues , serious journalism to be tackled at length in primetime — and that is what the BBC is committed to doing . |
| 5 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 6 | Intergraph Corp last week told Wall Street to expect first-quarter losses somewhere between $6.5m and $7.5m on revenues of $280m-$285m , below expectations . |
| 7 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
| 8 | UN expects new clashes after Somalia shoot-out |
| 9 | Because the emphasis was on family placements , residential workers and families expected other plans to be made . |
| 10 | The CBI also found that more of the region 's businesses expected new orders to increase rather than to decrease . |
| 11 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
| 12 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
| 13 | Police have advised the expected 90,000 Nottingham Forest and Manchester United soccer fans converging on Wembley to expect long delays and to reach the stadium via the A40 and M40 . |
| 14 | A falling yield curve is explained by investors expecting short-term rates to be lower in the future . |
| 15 | Policemen standing yards from where 95 soccer fans died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were last night expecting disciplinary charges . |
| 16 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 17 | It 's always slightly daunting at this particular time because you 're introduced as some sort of guru and people expect great things . |
| 18 | He looked at her in silence for several long moments , but instead of denying the accusation he said , ‘ As my acting hostess I expect you to know what they 're like , otherwise it will be impossible for you to explain that honeymooners expecting luxury suites with king-sized beds will have to settle for a roll in the hay . ’ |
| 19 | While the benefits and opportunities presented by distributing tasks and applications across high-performance , inexpensive Unix processors are being realised across the industry , commercial users expect well-proven systems management utilities such as Digital Equipment Corp 's Enterprise Management Architecture and proprietary systems from the likes of IBM Corp . |
| 20 | After all , it is common sense to expect low margins in the United States , given the intensity of the competition there . |
| 21 | Another consideration is that the government expects high-technology' industries to grow by 10 per cent a year for the next decade . |
| 22 | However , the government expects local authorities to encourage independent suppliers and make ‘ wider use of service specifications , agency agreements and contracts . ’ |
| 23 | The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT . |
| 24 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward expects open-air readers to go Beating the Bounds |
| 25 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 26 | Our own experiments with people 's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here . |
| 27 | Halliday ( 1967 ) has a rather odd-looking set of tones : There is , of course , no particular reason to expect linguistic systems to be tidy and symmetrical , but I find it hard to see why Halliday chose these particular tones . |
| 28 | Many commentators expected significant defections from the LDP to the PPP following Aquino 's endorsement of Ramos . |
| 29 | Some journals expect outgoing editors to retain responsibility for work in progress when they leave . |
| 30 | The committee believes that the public expects external audits to have a role in protecting the interests of shareholders , creditors , pensioners , employees and the public generally by providing them with reassurances that : |