Example sentences of "that [pers pn] expect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 2 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |
| 3 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 4 | If you insert three blank rows at the top of the spreadsheet you can use B2 to record the average inflation per year that you expect for the life of the savings plan . |
| 5 | What has happened to the statements that we expected on revenue support grant ? |
| 6 | ‘ Not that we expect to be Martini . |
| 7 | Another element that we expect to be present in the ultimate theory is Richard Feynman 's proposal that quantum theory can be formulated as a ‘ sum over histories . ’ |
| 8 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 9 | Not everyone reacts to the death of someone close by bursting into tears and behaving in the kind of way that we expect from people experiencing grief . |
| 10 | The social position that a person occupies we call a status and the behaviour that we expect from a person occupying that position we call a role . |
| 11 | The electronic and acoustic weapons systems of bats , which we discussed in Chapter 2 , have all the finely tuned sophistication that we expect from the end-products of a long arms race . |
| 12 | He will be surprised — I fear that he may even be disappointed — by the figures that we shall announce next week , which specify the output that we expect from housing associations in 1992-93 . |
| 13 | His argument was that they expect to be certain , and therefore interpret any doubt as evidence of unbelief : |
| 14 | Some children may be prepared to chew on finger foods like toast or biscuits but a lump in a spoonful of food that they expect to be mushy can upset them . |
| 15 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 16 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 17 | The £3m or so net of expenses that it expects from the placing will go to eliminating existing bank loans , which stood at £952,200 on November 13 , with the balance going for working capital . |
| 18 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 19 | He was obviously drunk or drugged when he wrote it , but it indicates that he expects to be dead by the time i read it . |