Example sentences of "[conj] expect [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have least to offer the family in return for all the help and support they may need or expect in return . |
| 2 | Output is thus affected by the deviation of the price level from both that expected by workers in period t - 1 and in period t - 2 . |
| 3 | A CONFEDERATION of British Industry survey out this morning shows that new orders and output among small manufacturing firms have declined at a greater rate than expected since July . |
| 4 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 5 | SHARES in Waste Management International , the waste disposal group being floated in London by its American parent , were priced a shade lower than expected at 585p yesterday , before jumping to 612p on the grey market . |
| 6 | It made 50 per cent more than expected at £5.5m and every lot was sold . |
| 7 | Britain 's trade gap narrowed in February to seven hundred and fifty million pounds from eight hundred and fifty-eight million , but the figures are worse than expected by City analysts . |
| 8 | This raised three different problems ( or opportunities , as we say in marketing ) : overall , the quality of the stores was higher than expected by people used to Allied Carpets ' promotional style ; people were not fully aware of the extent of the offer — they did not associate Allied with furniture and beds ; and , in a market where independent retailers are still the dominant factor , they had low expectations of Allied 's standards of personal service . |
| 9 | So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things . |
| 10 | This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt . |
| 11 | The more that you know about what is normal and expected in diseases the easier it will be to evaluate the Peculiars . |
| 12 | The Commerce Department 's index of leading economic indicators fell twice as much as expected during November . |
| 13 | Maguire did the business as expected at Cheltenham and then travelled to Fairyhouse to ride Omerta in the Irish National and achieved the same result again . |
| 14 | This indicates that the cause of the blockage is essentially irreversible with time , as expected for coordination complexes , compared to drugs which interact reversibly with DNA ( 10 ) . |
| 15 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 16 | ‘ Stork as expected from Gatow . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We did surprisingly well in rucks and mauls and , as expected in New Zealand , most players went to ground and looked for rucked ball . |