Example sentences of "[noun] expect [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens . |
| 2 | Dictionary authors expect users to perform regular morphological processing themselves . |
| 3 | How does my hon. and learned Friend expect Palestinians to feel that they will get a fair crack of the whip while they are subjected to those double standards ? |
| 4 | ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one . |
| 5 | Greece and Spain expect emissions to rise by at least 25 per cent and Portugal is expecting rise of between 29-39 per cent , depending on economic growth . |
| 6 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 7 | The Engineering Council expects registrants to adhere to good engineering practice wherever and whenever possible and considers that this Code of Professional Practice will assist registrants in achieving this standard . |
| 8 | I AM not worried by the tactics of the Tory Whips during the Maastricht debate because any government has the right to expect members elected on its manifesto to push its business through the House . |
| 9 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 10 | The conclusion that we have drawn from these observations , which is supported by independent experimental evidence to be discussed below , is that although people expect ellipses to take their meanings from the preceding text , they do not derive that meaning solely from a representation of the superficial features of the preceding text . |
| 11 | If people expect prices to rise , they may reduce their money balances and purchase goods and assets now , before prices do rise . |
| 12 | Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount . |
| 13 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 14 | Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos . |
| 15 | It was , he said , beyond belief to expect pensioners to chip in to help flood victims . |
| 16 | And the British Tourist Authority expects figures to rise as our recent warm summers , the effects of the recession and the threat of airport delays encourage more and more people to holiday at home rather than abroad . |
| 17 | Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures … |
| 18 | Just like other Orcs , Savage Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens . |
| 19 | That is , I think , the task which the Home Secretary expects judges to perform when he asks for their advice on the requirements of retribution and deterrence , and the task which the judges do perform . |
| 20 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |
| 21 | NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR EXPECTS MARGINS TO IMPROVE |
| 22 | Over the past few years the market has boomed : Dataquest expects portables to account for around half of PC sales by 1995 . |
| 23 | Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be . |
| 24 | Er I wonder if there is in fact er a a view that women expect men to have of them that 's th the desirable woman ? |
| 25 | Tournament organisers and the refereeing panel expect competitors to come to the tournament in a fit state to compete , not shrouded in bandages ! |
| 26 | This is approaching the temperature below which theoreticians expect atoms to fuse together in a new kind of matter . |