Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] expect " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The figures are well in excess of what we expected . |
2 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
3 | He writes that he was determined to exclude ‘ voyages , naval battles , shipboard life , fishing ’ and most of what one expects in nautical yarns . |
4 | The theories are based upon individuals ' perception of what they expect out of work and recognise that individuals place different values on rewards and the effort that they have to expend in order to achieve those rewards . |
5 | The private sector will have an incentive to form an estimate of this policy rule and use the resultant knowledge to arrive at their subjective estimate of what they expect the money supply will be in period . |
6 | I 've done too much of what you expected already . |
7 | Now make another table of what you expect from your house , and award points from one to ten in the same way : |
8 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
9 | The most important aspect of scanning is that you must have a clear picture of what you expect to see on each instrument . |
10 | I was only asking for confirmation of what I expected . |
11 | The development of the inter-bank market enabled banks to lend for specified periods of time , repayment to coincide with what they expected to be periods of shortage . |
12 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
13 | The realities of parenthood for her were , as for most people , different from what she expected . |
14 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
15 | Contrary to what everyone expected , urban children suddenly subjected to the apparently healthy environment of fresh air and green fields did not show any marked improvement in health . |
16 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
17 | The Home Secretary wrote to and held regular briefing sessions with Chief Constables , leaving them in no doubt as to what he expected of them ( Uglow , 1988 ) . |
18 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
19 | I would suggest to you colleagues , it 's because the , your expectations and those of the , er , the other erm , stake holders involved in the other agencies about joint planning depends on what you expect the joint structures to carry . |
20 | Apparently , Darwin , calling at the Society on what he expected to be a routine visit , was not equipped with paper . |
21 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
22 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
23 | Two further advantages are that objectives provide the student with a clear idea of what is expected of her and that teachers are forced to think clearly about what they expect of students . |
24 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
25 | Wherever we operate , we place great emphasis on talking to our community partners about what they expect of us and what we can contribute to them . |
26 | Let's talk about what you expect . |
27 | — Before you switch on , spend a few minutes thinking about what you expect the programme to be about . |
28 | Being proactive means negotiating with your supervisor about what you expect from her or him , instead of just accepting the terms ( often not actually made explicit ) on which supervision is offered . |
29 | ‘ You could video that and sell it as what you expect from a player the control , the passing , the will to take responsibility , to work , to retrieve situations . |
30 | Either way , they have to face the possibility of discovering discrepancies between what they expect and what they experience , and in that lies the potential for development . |