Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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1 | Failure to use these words can lead to a lot of confusion , and provide opportunities for awkward parties to obstruct a reference by questioning the procedure used to arrive at a result which they expect to be unfavourable . |
2 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
3 | Er , yes in the studies in nineteen ninety two er Eurofighter suggested that there could be reductions in the holdings of spares , rolled equipment and support items as a result of the more accurate forecasting which we expect to emerge from the logistics support analysis . |
4 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
5 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
6 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
7 | How is it that banks issue certain types of Credit which they expect will never be drawn on ? |
8 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
9 | The pupils are insulted by weakness on the part of those in authority who they expect to be strong and this weakness , once established , provokes more playing up : |
10 | You need to set down at the start what you expect to achieve . |
11 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
12 | It is essential for an investor to decide at the outset what it expects to obtain from the due diligence exercise . |
13 | It 's the only certain way to pay off an overdraft which he expects by then to have topped £1,000 . |
14 | Ce petit con , Dubois , et ce petit con , Devaux — they give the public what it expects … . |
15 | ‘ We 're desperate for a win and the players have been left in no doubt what I expect of them , ’ said Laughton . |
16 | So in return we shall specify in more detail what we expect from you . |
17 | From the pastoral comforts of the Plateau de Bénou , the road twists abruptly down past the villages of Bilhères and of Bielle , another valley ‘ capital ’ this , with some fine fifteenth-and sixteenth-century house fronts , but particularly commendable as a slated roofs cape seen from higher up the road — this is Béarn , and grey slates arc what you expect on roofs , no longer Basque tiles . |
18 | He saw in her face what he expected to see . |