Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , in the UK the Confederation of British Industry publishes a four monthly basis a national survey of the opinions of a lab sample of companies whether they expect their sales , exports , production , employment and investment to remain stable or change . |
| 2 | They come from the roughest jails where they expect trouble all the time . |
| 3 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 4 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 5 | Note down all your appointments and any follow-up dates when you expect to hear results or ought to telephone for information . |
| 6 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 7 | I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there . |
| 8 | Even so , it cost me rather more of my American dollars than I expected . |
| 9 | Anyway Maureen 'll be trying to work out some , some of the , some of the issues so you expect that . |
| 10 | If you have a lot of different dates to enter , either use a keystroke macro — something that I will cover in a future Step-by-Step ( but see ‘ Further Reading ’ ) or just enter the same date , say @DATEVALUE ( ’ 1-Jan-90 ’ ) in the first cell , copy it down the column for as many rows as you expect to need and then edit it ( using F2 ) to enter the real dates . |
| 11 | If you intend to night-fish , which is usual in order to fish evening and early morning as well as the night itself , then you should aim to introduce your bait in the evening at least two hours before you expect to catch fish . |
| 12 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 13 | Prescriptives is for the contemporary woman who demands the same high standards from her beauty products as she expects from her wardrobe . |
| 14 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |