Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall expects 50% of Sun Commonwealth of Independent States business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 2 | Hall expects 50% of Sun CIS business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 3 | The group expected Charman to be upset but they were taken aback at his extreme response . |
| 4 | When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy . |
| 5 | On the other hand heads have every right to expect staff to be well groomed and reasonably dressed at work . |
| 6 | InfoCorp expects shipments of multiuser systems with an average selling price between $15,000 and $1m to grow from 509,000 units in 1992 to 643,000 units in 1997 — a compound annual growth rate of 6% . |
| 7 | The Chancellor said the European Commission expected Britain to be the fastest growing of all the major European economies , this year and next . |
| 8 | When children die , allegedly at the hands of parents or those responsible for their care , society expects responsibility to be allocated , and penalties paid . |
| 9 | By 2001 the government expects 90% of new jobs to be filled by women and that women will form 45% of the labour force ( Employment Gazette April 1990 ) . |
| 10 | FIserve expects $23.5m from the offering and will use it for working capital , possible repayment of debt and acquisitions of complementary businesses . |
| 11 | PARALLAN COMPUTER EXPECTS FALL IN SHIPMENTS |
| 12 | There seemed little reason to expect conditions to be more favourable further east under Mesozoic cover ; few wells enter the thrust sheets which are expected there , and none are deep enough to prove what lies beneath them . |
| 13 | Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills . |
| 14 | There is no obvious reason to expect sentiment in Denmark to be affected by Britain 's problems but the impression could gain ground that the UK will be able to work out an accommodation with the EC without Maastricht and that there is therefore an alternative for Denmark . |
| 15 | For some reason , the public expected Diana to be with him wherever he went . |
| 16 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 17 | It is usual for the file to be arranged in ascending key sequence , and for the file creation software to expect input to the file to be physically in this order ( on initial creation ) or logically in this order ( when a file with overflow records is reorganized ) . |
| 18 | By contrast , the panel expects output in continental Europe to tumble by 1% this year . |