Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main cause of these differences is the hotel guests who come and go according to their own personal arrangements and who quite rightly expect high standards and quality service to be maintained throughout their stay . |
| 2 | The formulae normally take account of the age , movements during the past , expected future movements and estimated scrap values of the stock as appropriate . |
| 3 | She made Johnson feel doubly at home , as she had ‘ lived many years in England ’ , therefore he could expect English manners and sense of comfort . |
| 4 | I shall expect all papers and documents to come with the account . ’ |
| 5 | Using the information above , for what purposes would you expect particular lorries and cars to be travelling on the M8 , either way between Glasgow and Livingston ? |
| 6 | There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) . |
| 7 | However , in present circumstances it would be unrealistic to expect ordinary citizens and all but the largest courts or law firms to be able to exploit the possibility . |
| 8 | E.g. it is reasonable to expect all pipes and tanks in an attic to be lagged ; when a property is to be unoccupied for a period particularly over the winter months , all water tanks , pipes , etc should be drained and adequate heating provided . |
| 9 | Police have advised the expected 90,000 Nottingham Forest and Manchester United soccer fans converging on Wembley to expect long delays and to reach the stadium via the A40 and M40 . |
| 10 | Most expected better times and were not disappointed . |
| 11 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont , Chancellor , pointed to surveys indicating an improvement in business confidence , with more companies expecting higher orders and sales . |
| 12 | Some people had baby-sitters of varying degrees of unreliability , mostly young girls in their teens , who were themselves expecting illegitimate babies and needed a temporary home , or elderly women lacking much strength to deal with children . |
| 13 | The interviewer may be expecting certain answers and qualifications from the person she/he is interviewing but the overall impression of yourself which you create in the interview is equally important . |
| 14 | However , the City had been expecting bad figures and the shares rose 15p to 239p . |
| 15 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 16 | Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees . |
| 17 | Alameda has worked with the navy for a long time , and 8,000 jobs would go if it closed ; Everett expects 6,000 sailors and their families to arrive when it is finished , and has built most of the infrastructure . |
| 18 | The National Gallery expects huge crowds and strong sales of the Barnes 's first colour catalogue , published by Knopf and printed handsomely by Pizzi . |