Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 2 | Well , that 's a perk that one expects , |
| 3 | ‘ All the independent analysts are now backing their words with money that they expect a gentle recovery to take root next year . ’ |
| 4 | The most practical way of examining the list is to tick off the items in each column that you expect definitely to apply and , where possible , to write down the expenditure involved in the adjacent box ( see Budget Planner , pages 120–25 ) . |
| 5 | Harold asked the question that I expected ; ‘ If they wo n't meet Barbara , who will they meet ? ’ |
| 6 | IBM 's announcement that it expects to slash its workforce this year by more than the 25,000 first planned will not affect its European operations , said a spokesman at the company 's Greenock plant . |
| 7 | Microsoft did n't fail to make the point that it expects to take market share away from Novell because NT includes networking while at the same time trouncing Unix . |
| 8 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 9 | Tim Eggar , the Energy Minister , told the conference that he expected recommendations by the end of the month from a working group on offshore costs chaired by John d'Ancona , the head of the Glasgow-based Offshore Supplies Office . |
| 10 | He will be surprised — I fear that he may even be disappointed — by the figures that we shall announce next week , which specify the output that we expect from housing associations in 1992-93 . |
| 11 | General Philippe Morillon , the commander of the UN 's forces in Bosnia , said on the same day that he expected a solution soon to the siege of Sarajevo . |
| 12 | The social position that a person occupies we call a status and the behaviour that we expect from a person occupying that position we call a role . |
| 13 | This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 per cent ratio that we expect . |
| 14 | The first proper historical evaluation of the subject to have been made in the United States , the exhibition has been organised by curator Elizabeth Armstrong and her associate , Joan Rothfuss , and will be seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art ( 16 July-3 October ) , Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art ( 13 November-16 January 1994 ) , the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts , Columbus OH ( 18 February-17 April 1994 ) , the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( 12 May-24 July 1994 ) and the Fundacio Antoni Tapies , Barcelona ( 17 November1994–12 January 1995 ) , the only European venue confirmed for this important exhibition of predominantly European material , although Armstrong told The Art Newspaper that she expects to add at least two further venues in Europe , one of which may be in London . |
| 15 | But Bristol City chairman Leslie Kew , also chairman of the strife-torn Anglo-Italian Cup said last night that he expected the competition to be staged again next year despite the appalling disciplinary record in this season 's tournament . |
| 16 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 17 | His tone suggested that he thought otherwise , and served to confirm her earlier instinctive feeling that he expected to find her flawed , contemptible . |
| 18 | I 've the feeling that you expect me to say something to you ? |
| 19 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 20 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 21 | Er , I think er , Frank will correct me if we 're closer to the , to the sharp edge than Anglia , who have got a very small stake and only in the equity of B S B H , are coming very low in the pecking order to get their money , whereas er , where there is a whole complex er , schedule of who will participate in the er , substantial cash flow that we expect to emanate from B Sky B in due course , but I think that 's the main reason why Anglia , I have n't talked to David . |
| 22 | Of course the inspectorate is highly respected in Wales , but the hon. Gentleman will know that it was never geared to carry out inspections with the frequency that we expect will result from the provisions of the Education ( Schools ) Bill and that we envisage in the parents charter . |
| 23 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 24 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 25 | After a meeting with umpires Steve Randell and Terry Prue , Subba Row said in a statement that he expected all players to adhere to proper standards of behaviour . |
| 26 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
| 27 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 28 | Some children may be prepared to chew on finger foods like toast or biscuits but a lump in a spoonful of food that they expect to be mushy can upset them . |
| 29 | A large , excellent doctors ' practice proceeded — how many doctors did the same ? — and made a claim for the reimbursement that they expected . |
| 30 | Not everyone reacts to the death of someone close by bursting into tears and behaving in the kind of way that we expect from people experiencing grief . |