Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens . |
| 2 | Dictionary authors expect users to perform regular morphological processing themselves . |
| 3 | These companies expected Speywood to spend their £4 million investment on perfecting and marketing blood proteins from conventional technology — not funding new biotechnology projects . |
| 4 | ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one . |
| 5 | Mexicans are the cheeriest : comparing optimists and pessimists , a net 76% of Mexican businessmen expect sales to rise in the second quarter of this year , compared with 69% in the first quarter . |
| 6 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 7 | German businessmen take a much more cheerful view of their economy than currency traders , who have lately driven the D-mark down : the balance of German companies expecting sales to rise over those expecting sales to fall is 69% , the widest margin in the chart . |
| 8 | That was sufficient because the early Christians expected Jesus to return immediately and set up the reign of God on earth . |
| 9 | By 1990 , industry observers expect Japan to account for 30 per cent of world sales of computer-related goods , compared with 11.2 per cent in December 1980 . |
| 10 | But yields on long-term bonds have been edging up since the middle of March , a sign that investors expect inflation to rise . |
| 11 | For investors to expect battle to commence given these circumstances is ambitious . |
| 12 | Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount . |
| 13 | Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures … |
| 14 | Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be . |
| 15 | Er I wonder if there is in fact er a a view that women expect men to have of them that 's th the desirable woman ? |
| 16 | This is approaching the temperature below which theoreticians expect atoms to fuse together in a new kind of matter . |
| 17 | Most career jobs expect people to work more than nine-to-five hours , to travel abroad or move house if necessary , maybe to attend conferences at weekends or socialise in the evenings ; in short , to put work before family . |
| 18 | Brits expect chocolate to taste like Cadbury 's Dairy Milk and are not really keen on anything else . |