Example sentences of "[verb] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that he 'd expected the animal 's response to be more intense on the second day , but it actually scored lower on his scale . |
| 2 | Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year . |
| 3 | The operator was told to expect the ambulance in five to seven minutes . |
| 4 | IBM Corp is reportedly getting set to trade in its graphics for stuff OEM 'd from Kubota Pacific Computer Inc : we 're told to expect the announcement before the end of the year — at Super Computing ‘ 92 perhaps . |
| 5 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 6 | People really began to expect the war to end in August , or at the latest in September . |
| 7 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 8 | That put Swansea 8–6 in front at half-time , but even then the Aussies could n't have expected the storm that awaited them in the second half . |
| 9 | Therefore one would have expected the proportion of severe pancreatitis to decrease . |
| 10 | Gabriel was galled with shame , though of course he could have expected the Devil to betray him . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a disgusting and inexcusable act and I would have expected the sentence to reflect this , ’ said Gosport MP Peter Viggers . |
| 12 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But if one of our lads had done something similar , I would have expected the Manchester City players to respond in the same way . |
| 14 | What is taxable is the benefit to the employee and one would have expected the quantum of that benefit to be assessed by reference to the value of the benefit to the employee . |
| 15 | We would have expected the fraction to be approximately one-third , because Kleisthenes divided Attica into three , not four : city , coast and inland . |
| 16 | But not even they could have expected the rigours of Wendover Woods next to RAF Halton . |
| 17 | There is no trace of a lease for the adjacent Coniston Manor at this period though one would have expected the Champions to have taken this " sett " if it had been available . |
| 18 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |
| 19 | ‘ one would have expected the ransom to have been paid . ’ |
| 20 | Who would ever have expected the pillar of the house to shake ? |
| 21 | I would have expected the DoH to present its own views on the legal use of restraint rather than allow regional variations to develop , ’ said Levy . |
| 22 | A couple of weeks ago , I might have expected the Tories to scrape through to election victory with such a Budget . |
| 23 | One might have expected the discipline most closely connected with the past to make a peculiarly important contribution to the development of the social sciences , but in fact history as an academic specialisation was of peculiarly little help to them . |
| 24 | If you have some experience and would have expected the remedy to work then put a pencil dot or mark on the bottle . |
| 25 | I kept expecting the teacher to praise her , but instead she suddenly cried out , |
| 26 | You keep expecting the spell to be shattered , especially as Michael Kitchen is around looking much like the villains he has played lately , but it remains intact . |
| 27 | The young prune wears his tie crooked , and I keep expecting the policeman to lean forward and straighten it . |
| 28 | I keep expecting the world to make sense . |
| 29 | THERE was no particular reason to have expected the creator of Asterix , the cuddly but cute Gallic mini-hero , or Obelix , the hefty menhir delivery-man , to be anything like his cartoon characters . |
| 30 | Er , I make a point of never saying I told you so , but we did expect the upturn to come , because fundamentally stru er , Camco is a strong business . |