Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This indicates that market operators expect the DM to appreciate over the three month period against the dollar . |
| 2 | There was a time when its readers expected the novel to inform or to instruct , to contribute to the definition of a direction for society . |
| 3 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 4 | Listeners expected the radio to be relevant to problems as they saw them . |
| 5 | Other hidden subsidies , VAT evasion and illegal practices , are all areas where British carpet manufacturers expect the UK authorities to redouble their efforts . |
| 6 | In the mid-twentieth century , Allport 's title invites his readers to expect the arguments of liberalism to be directed against different targets . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe our communities expect the number of uniformed police trying to combat these crime should also be increased ‘ It seems ridiculous that the Home Secretary should turn down County Durham Constabulary 's bid for only 20 additional officers . ’ |
| 8 | There are good reasons to expect the recovery will begin around the middle of this year , although initially it may be slow . |
| 9 | Whatever the intended meaning of those words , there is strong evidence in the New Testament that many of the early Christians expected the Lord 's return at any moment . |
| 10 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 11 | Most physiological psychologists expect the brain to be made up of complementary modules and that lesions will produce double dissociations . |
| 12 | Conservationists expect the government to rely on the existing network of 5,800 sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , which are given only limited protection under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 13 | Providing the European Parliament does not delay the proposal 's passage , Commission officials expect the Council of Energy ministers to approve ALTENER at its November 13 meeting . |
| 14 | Observers expect the Santa Cruz Operation to announce a profit for its first quarter shortly : the market is expected to want the company to prove it can be profitable for one further quarter through to March — without Larry Michels — before issuing an initial public offering next April with the aim of going public in June . |
| 15 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 16 | It meant that the Greeks expected the Jews not to translate their holy books , but to produce an account of themselves according to the current methods and categories of ethnography . |
| 17 | Organisers expect the crowds this year easily to exceed the record attendance of 170,000 over four days in 1992 . |
| 18 | Clients are paying more slowly and over 40 p.c. of firms expect the situation to worsen . |
| 19 | Informed sources expect the president 's plan to include these main elements : |
| 20 | A speaker who asked questions expecting the answer ‘ True ’ sometimes incorporated an elaborated irony by which he attacked the revolution for its failure to uphold principles and policies to which he was , and was known to be , utterly opposed . |
| 21 | The sponsors expect the service to be self-supporting after five years . |
| 22 | Both sides expect the result to be very close . |
| 23 | Speculation about the leadership had persisted in the run up to the elections — in which most commentators expected the Conservatives to perform disastrously . |
| 24 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 25 | Students expect the security of a routine in the classroom and WOW ! provides a clear pattern that the teacher can follow in class . |
| 26 | Analysts expected the imposition of this new ban to have a serious impact on Jordan 's debt-ridden farmers . |
| 27 | Analysts expect the company to make £36m pre-tax profits for the year to March . |
| 28 | Most analysts expect the company to record sales of around $1.8 billion for the year to June 30th — a 19-fold increase in seven years . |
| 29 | Political analysts expect the Labor government to call the poll some time in February , about five weeks before it is held . |
| 30 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |