Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a policeman at the bottom of the bed , so perhaps it was a silly question to expect Charley to answer . |
| 2 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 3 | The Engineering Council expects registrants to adhere to good engineering practice wherever and whenever possible and considers that this Code of Professional Practice will assist registrants in achieving this standard . |
| 4 | Nor had he for one moment expected Wang to offer another shipment . |
| 5 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 6 | Dishonesty is also brought out in this scene , when the Duke expects Shylock to forgive Antonio in line 23 ‘ which is a pound of this poor merchant 's flesh , thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture , but touch with human gentleness and love , Forgive a moiety of the principal ; ’ . |
| 7 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 8 | Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos . |
| 9 | It was , he said , beyond belief to expect pensioners to chip in to help flood victims . |
| 10 | A ‘ chew and choke ’ was a transport cafe and the ‘ Bears ’ meant the police , but it was no use expecting Danny to use plain English on a rig . |
| 11 | Grove expects Intel to invest $1,600m on capital equipment this year . |
| 12 | And the British Tourist Authority expects figures to rise as our recent warm summers , the effects of the recession and the threat of airport delays encourage more and more people to holiday at home rather than abroad . |
| 13 | But I still ex I still out of courtesy expect people to phone but may be I 'm old fashioned . |
| 14 | That is , I think , the task which the Home Secretary expects judges to perform when he asks for their advice on the requirements of retribution and deterrence , and the task which the judges do perform . |
| 15 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |
| 16 | The firm expects Europe to contribute another 10% in revenues by the end of the year . |
| 17 | NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR EXPECTS MARGINS TO IMPROVE |
| 18 | HP expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple platforms is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State expects LEAs to give a ‘ clear and explicit ’ ( 1988b ) basis for devising or amending a resource-allocation formula so that all concerned understand exactly how it operates . |
| 20 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 21 | If so , there is no reason to expect Novell to keep subsidizing Unix out of altruism . |
| 22 | If so , there is no reason to expect Novell to keep subsidizing Unix out of altruism . ’ |
| 23 | But at least one minister expected Hunt to take a different line . |
| 24 | Tournament organisers and the refereeing panel expect competitors to come to the tournament in a fit state to compete , not shrouded in bandages ! |
| 25 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 26 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 27 | The company expects OEMs to start delivering Solaris 2.1-based systems the beginning of the second quarter . |