Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
2 | Until the mid-80s , such funds were discouraged by both the Charity Commissioners and the Inland Revenue , but now , as the rules are changed , the industry expects a flood of them with managers aggressively promoting them . |
3 | The Jewish law expected a boy to get married between the age of thirteen and eighteen to a Jewish girl aged twelve-and-a-half to fifteen ! ! |
4 | ‘ Anyway , I have no right to expect a present , as I have n't done anything to deserve one . ’ |
5 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |
6 | Tunney had just slipped into his Richie Quick projection and gone indream expecting a swiftkick runaround the cliche track with a preordained victory at the end . |
7 | THE Government was warned last night to expect a rebuff as the Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel prepared to ballot members on a deal rejected by the five TUC-affiliated unions for ambulance staff . |
8 | It will also put you on notice to expect a commission account after contracts are exchanged . |
9 | ‘ I 've warned the duty undertaker to expect a body . ’ |
10 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
11 | The psalmist expects a response that is physical as he invites the worshippers : |
12 | • Next year , new public registers or contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act will be opened , and the Department of the Environment expects an increase in public pressure for sites to be cleaned up . |
13 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
14 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |
15 | Well , one day I opened the door expecting a customer and there were three strangers . |
16 | Half the crowd expect a punk band and half are curious old gits who remember organ bands the first time around . |
17 | If this is not true , then there is no longer any reason to expect a tendency towards equality between the real wage and the marginal disutility of labour . |
18 | He answered that he had gone too far now and that the Country expected a dissolution . |
19 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
20 | Our intention was to fly low level VFR into French airspace , climb onto airways VFR , then , as we were expecting to catch up a cold front around Limoges , refile IFR and continue to our destination expecting an IFR approach with a reported cloud base of 600 to 800 ft . |
21 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
22 | Currently , the spread is about ten points , suggesting that the market expects a default rate of about 10% . |
23 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |
24 | The module name specified is known to LIFESPAN ( as a SOURCE or FOREIGN ) but LIFESPAN expects a PACKAGE ( or product ) . |