Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 2 | ‘ But you still expected Sir Thomas to win ? |
| 3 | Most forecasters still expect GNP growth of 3–3.5% this year , down from an estimated 4.6% in 1990 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 5 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 6 | BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish warned the rest of his expensive stars last night they ca n't always expect £3.3million striker Alan Shearer to save them with one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 7 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 8 | The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge . |
| 9 | The Martin Pipe camp believe that they would have beaten Morley Street granted a faster pace in the Elite Hurdle here last month , but I doubt it and confidently expect Toby Balding 's star to confirm his superiority on 6lb better terms . |
| 10 | But some foreign bankers also expect South Korea to develop into a regional financial centre second only to Hong Kong on the Asian mainland . |
| 11 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 12 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 13 | The Right will clearly expect Mr Hamilton to keep in check some of Mr Heseltine 's more interventionist policies . |
| 14 | He could also expect record damages after being jailed for almost 10 months . |
| 15 | He also expects US venture capital group Advent , to sell its 6.4% holding in the firm . |
| 16 | If there is a new vibe — a reiteration of yesterday 's values attuned to today 's desires , erupting into the voids that the synthetic world of vinyl and plastic just ca n't fill — then expect Stone Grove to be up there , recycling nothing but what was once called soul . |
| 17 | It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd . |
| 18 | That fund is set to increase by a further £1 million next year , and I certainly expect motor projects to figure significantly within that increased expenditure . |
| 19 | We might therefore expect B's utterance to be interpreted as a non-co-operative response , a brushing aside of A's concerns with a change of topic . |