Example sentences of "expect [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
2 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
3 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
4 | America , Canada , Britain and Sweden are all now expected to see a fall in economic output this year ; America 's GNP is forecast to shrink by 0.4% . |
5 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
6 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
7 | When Psyche lighted the lamp , she expected to see a beast , but she saw a god . |
8 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
9 | The EC stated in the final declaration that it expected to implement an offer to remove or reduce duties on tropical products " once a satisfactory balanced conclusion has been reached in the Uruguay Round " . |
10 | This year is the 10th anniversary of the half-marathon , which is one again expected to attract a field of more than 1000 , with a strong challenge to John Boyes ' 1984 course record of 1:06:09 in prospect . |
11 | He expected to find a drain . |
12 | She always expected to find a rival ; but there was no rival , unless you count Emma Bovary . |
13 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
14 | The group also included Treasury ministers , who might be expected to support a change to private insurance if anyone would . |
15 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
16 | Computervision is expected to report a loss for the quarter that ended last week , after earning $4.8m in the prior quarter . |
17 | Dismissing the Pittencrieff bid , Aberdeen 's London-based managing director , David Hooker , said : ‘ We remain convinced that the smaller oil and gas companies should consolidate to add value for shareholders and expect to arrange a meeting with Pittencrieff in the near future . ’ |
18 | To begin with , I pay tribute to an intervention made by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-West ( Mr. Budgen ) who , earlier today , rightly pointed out that in a democracy Parliament should be expected to debate a measure such as this in a sane and sensible fashion . |
19 | Version 5 however , is expected to include a facility to ‘ knit from the screen ’ , so if your computer and knitting machine are in the same room , you may find this more convenient than printing on to paper . |
20 | ‘ The Kuwait contract is important as it not only features ab initio pilot training but is expected to include a requirement for the School to teach very experienced airline pilots the special skills required to become line training captains , ’ says OATS ' Principal Ken Meehan . |
21 | The plan falls within the 244.5bn pounds spending ceiling and is expected to include a pay freeze , a squeeze on benefits , the cancellation of some capital spending projects and limited cash help for the introduction of the ne council tax . |
22 | Once expected by the end of last year , and the subject of technology demonstrations earlier this year , the exact scope of CICS/6000 is still not clear , but it is expected to include a number of technology elements from other vendors , including MicroFocus Cobol , parts of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) technology , and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing software , developed with IBM 's backing . |
23 | Nor do I see why caregivers should be expected to sustain a focus on personal relationships which would not ordinarily exist in the encounters between young people and adults . |
24 | Dixons ' chairman , Mr Stanley Kalms , whose empire embraces 600 Currys outlets as well as 350 under the Dixons name , is expected to issue a rejection of the takeover attempt today . |
25 | The FASB issued an exposure draft on the subject in September 1991 , and was expected to issue a statement later this year . |
26 | Riven half expected to see a crocodile hanging from the ceiling , but instead there were bulbs of garlic and bunches of other herbs which he could not identify . |
27 | But she certainly had n't expected to see a selection of Penguin Classics . |
28 | France are the only member of the Five Nations to accept an invitation , although it can be expected to see a number of England 's high-order in the Barbarians side and Irish charm amongst the Irish Wolfhounds . |
29 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |
30 | She 's now expected to lodge an appeal . |