Example sentences of "[adv] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tae kwon do is the Korean art of self-defence and Britain 's rather good at it , so expect a lot of that on your screens . |
| 3 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 4 | As Mann says , this may be acceptable if the only evidence consists of a ‘ one-sided dialogue ’ where the suspect refuses to answer any questions at all , but where some , a significant number perhaps , are answered , it may be highly impracticable to sever a conversation in this way and still expect a jury to make sense of it . |
| 5 | We usually expect a marriage to last — yet things can change ! |
| 6 | Mrs Burke 's daughter , Mrs Doreen Leverton , 63 , said : ‘ You always expect a parent to die sometime but not in this way . |
| 7 | Sometimes , though , doctors prescribe more medicines than are necessary because they think that most of their patients always expect a prescription . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | New Yorkers confidently expect the inquiry to turn up nothing . |
| 10 | According to the poll , conducted among directors of the leading 500 companies , 96 per cent of business leaders think a Labour victory would bring higher interest rates , while 83 per cent also expect a fall in the value of the pound against the German mark . |
| 11 | Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer & Friedlander . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I also expect the companies selling them to finally give up and start calling them computers — which , of course , is what they are . |
| 14 | She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks . |
| 15 | Most private forecasters now expect no growth in America this year , and lately each of their succeeding revisions has been down . |
| 16 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 17 | The contract was to have been the first to be awarded under the new no frills fast track process — but some observers now expect the tender to be scrapped altogether and replaced with a Desktop V tender . |
| 18 | Brokers now expect the group to make £54 million to £55 million in the current year . |
| 19 | But motor industry executives now expect the decline in sales that showed through last month to accelerate in the remainder of the year . |
| 20 | The Swann Committee had also noted ‘ the views expressed very clearly to us at our various meetings with parents from the whole range of ethnic minority groups that they want and indeed expect the education system to give their children above all a good command of English as rapidly as possible ’ . |
| 21 | ALLIED commanders fully expect the Iraqis to turn chemical weapons on them once the ground fighting starts in earnest . |
| 22 | They imagine that they have believed in God because faith is rational — which it is — but they then expect every aspect of faith to be equally open to rational investigation — which it is n't . |
| 23 | We then expect a Pre-Inquiry meeting will be held by the Secretary of State sometime in September and that a Local Public Inquiry will take place either before or just after Christmas . |
| 24 | They do n't do their paperwork properly and then expect an answer this afternoon . |
| 25 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 26 | They therefore expect the companies they work for to support the providers of those services , in some way , and they want to play their part too , in delivering those services , and I have quite a lot to say about that , later on . |
| 27 | We therefore expect the Tunguska fireball to have reached a height above its airburst altitude appropriate to a nuclear surface burst . |