Example sentences of "[adv] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile . |
| 2 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
| 3 | Any players worth their salt will obviously expect the suits of armour to animate and attack , so do n't disappoint them here . |
| 4 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 5 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 6 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
| 7 | If the offeror is a subsidiary , or a company controlled by a consortium , the offeror should normally expect the Panel to look through the corporation and require disclosure of the ultimate holding company or members of the consortium . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've seen that dress before , ’ whispers a disappointed woman in front , but you could scarcely expect the Queen to wear a new suit for each of the fourteen investitures each year as well as all her other official functions . |
| 9 | So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases . |
| 10 | He can usually take for granted initial student motivation , educational level and intelligence ; he is part of a system which already expects the student to spend a considerable proportion of his time in private study , and which usually provides at least minimal facilities for this to take place . |
| 11 | Any Romanian had learnt instinctively to expect the opposite of what the Party assured them the future had to offer . |
| 12 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 13 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 14 | Given the author 's centre-right political stance ( he is a potential Presidential candidate in Peru ) one could hardly expect the portrait be sympathetic . |
| 15 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 16 | Continuing with the Lois Lane example , suppose that she still expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures ( ignoring the effects of any general price movements on their relative prices ) , and she has no views about general price movements . |
| 17 | Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH says that it now expects its subscriber base to reach 200,000 next month , ahead of plan , but still expects the level to be between 300,000 and 350,000 by year-end ; it is still looking for profits in 1994-95 . |
| 18 | Like many other Nazareans , he still expects the dissolution of creation . |
| 19 | ‘ A fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay ’ was their motto and , if they expected the pay to satisfy them , they also confidently expected the work to satisfy everybody , including themselves . |
| 20 | But their offers were around £400m to £450m , while Littlewoods clearly expected the price of more than £500m . |
| 21 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 22 | New Yorkers confidently expect the inquiry to turn up nothing . |
| 23 | Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer & Friedlander . |
| 24 | We also expect the expert to inform us what is in our best interests , for how can we know this when the technical grounds for such judgements are , by definition , outside our competence . |
| 25 | I also expect the companies selling them to finally give up and start calling them computers — which , of course , is what they are . |
| 26 | We would probably expect the dispersion in Β to be considerably larger than in N ; on the other hand , this may be offset by its lower degree of serial correlation . |
| 27 | This is because it is to the equilibrium rate of national income ( Y e ) that we can reasonably expect the macroeconomy to tend . |
| 28 | The key ability is to know to address problems early and to know what you can reasonably expect the banks to do . |
| 29 | Customers will expect to pay more for a reputable brand , but they will also expect the price charged to be consistent with their perceptions of the product ; * the amount and style of advertising and sales promotion ( Promotion ) will influence the consumer 's perception of the product , which in turn must influence on-going company product and brand development activities ( Product ) . |
| 30 | If we pursue the doctrine of the orogeny/regression couple , then we must also expect the corollary that the wearing down of mountain ranges and the spread of continents by marginal sedimentation must lead to widespread transgressions . |