Example sentences of "[pron] expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You expect fire to come out of the back of his ball when he hits it , but his ball 's flight is no different to mine . |
| 32 | You expect fire to come out of the back of his ball when he hits it , but his ball 's flight is no different to mine . |
| 33 | The changed role of the nurse from being carer , provider and giver of advice and direction is also new for Community Mothers and clients who expect nurses to operate from their traditional professional role and to have all the answers , and deal with all the problems . |
| 34 | And do you expect Israel to attack , and if they do attack , or retaliate , then will this change the whole complexion of the conflict ? |
| 35 | Yeah so They say what properties do you expect lithium to have , you 'll have a look at it and you 'll say well it 's sort of going to be the same as sodium and potassium , rally . |
| 36 | ‘ How can you expect people to take you seriously , if you do n't have any convictions about anything ? ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Do you expect God to hold back the tide for us to float here all day , then , or do we turn in to Duart ? ’ |
| 38 | So , this is , this is just one week , are you expecting people to continue after they 've er , they 've sampled the delights of , of the low alcohol ? |
| 39 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 40 | I think she 's very optimistic if she expects others to go by bus so that she can get her car out of Muirwood Road , to get to work in Wester Hailes . |
| 41 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 42 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 43 | Within the European time zone we expect competition to intensify with the creation of a single EC capital market and the possible advent of a single currency , the ECU . |
| 44 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 45 | Now we expect operators to identify the root cause and make the problem go away themselves , ’ said factory systems manager . |
| 46 | We expect prices to start rising in the late summer or autumn . ’ |
| 47 | Simply that in higher education , we expect students to go beyond the material they encompass and to form their own affinity with it . |
| 48 | In this context , the phrase ‘ higher learning ’ is particularly helpful , because it prompts us to ask whether in higher education there is anything especially ‘ higher ’ about the learning we expect students to achieve . |
| 49 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 50 | Aiming at 70 Implementor sales for 1993 , Hugh McCartney , the company 's managing director said that 75% of business will still come from people developing applications for the AS/400 : ‘ We expect people to migrate in two to three years . |
| 51 | We expect people to pay their debts . |
| 52 | We expect candidates to communicate effectively — but will not be looking for perfect Business English . |
| 53 | On the whole we expect opportunities to start paying off very quickly . |
| 54 | … we expect books to generate ideas for exploration , we try to choose books that will challenge and ask questions of our brightest children and yet provide an accessible experience for the weakest . |
| 55 | Hunting may well become outlawed but we are deluding ourselves if we expect angling to follow in the foreseeable future although I am sure it will also go in future decades . |
| 56 | After all , we expect cuts to heal themselves , broken bones to knit , colds to clear . |
| 57 | We expect GDP to grow by 1.25 per cent this year , with the recovery gathering pace . |
| 58 | ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield . |
| 59 | We expect planes to take off on time . |
| 60 | This year we expect consumers to spend some £80 billion on leisure — almost one quarter of consumer spending . |