Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers expected to find six out of ten people could recall Lady Thatcher 's historic resignation moment in vivid detail by retaining a long-lasting ‘ flashbulb ’ memory . |
| 2 | Most owner-managers expected to finance all or part of their purchases from within the firm . |
| 3 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 4 | Pirate radio fans expected to flood 29th birthday party |
| 5 | Tests are being devised for children with special needs expected to attain lower levels three to one . |
| 6 | Guests expected to arrive 15 minutes before the ceremony . |
| 7 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |
| 8 | Current trends suggest that many organisations expect to store increasing percentages of their records in improved versions of such systems . |
| 9 | However few who die are reckoned fit to enter directly into the presence of God and the vast majority of Roman Catholics expect to go first to Purgatory either on account of dying ‘ in venial sin ’ ( Catechism P. 32 ) or being ‘ indebted to God 's justice on account of mortal sin . ’ |
| 10 | One in four firms expecting to shed more jobs by March |
| 11 | ONE in four firms expects to announce fresh redundancies within the first three months of the New Year . |
| 12 | But with electricity prices expected to increase 50 per cent by 2010 , the extra cost of power should , in itself , lead consumers to increase their own energy efficiency . |
| 13 | After a nuclear accident , scientists expect to find first leukaemia cases , beginning after five years and peaking after 15–20 years , then thyroid cancer and finally general cancers . |
| 14 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES EXPECTS TO MAKE 600,000 AM486 CHIPS THIS YEAR |
| 15 | Among the landed classes men expected to marry young ( by our standards ) in the Middle Ages and women younger ; and probably had done so for centuries before our period opens . |
| 16 | ‘ At home , children expect to come first in the life of the family and in school many of them behave in a selfish , uncaring way with no idea of consideration of others , ’ wrote another . |
| 17 | Many potential purchasers expect to find fitted wardrobes in bedrooms these days . |
| 18 | Many local caciques or large landowners expect to have sexual access to campesina women , particularly young girls , living on or near their estates . |
| 19 | The record is ten days , but not even the trimarans expect to match that this year . |
| 20 | How often do children expect to find all the information they need from just one book ? |
| 21 | In the 1940s and 1950s working-class women expected to have more babies than middle-class women . |