Example sentences of "expect [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 2 | He was expected to miss six week 's play . |
| 3 | The Parti Seselwa , led by Wavel Ramkalawan , which won 4.4 per cent of votes , was expected to secure one seat under a " best losers " system . |
| 4 | In addition to the 60 people now working at Regeneration House , the project is expected to create 1,800 construction jobs and when complete the station complex will provide 1,720 extra jobs . |
| 5 | Plateau production from Piper and Saltire is expected to reach 83,000 boepd and 57,000 boepd respectively . |
| 6 | The appeal will take place in Stockton Town Hall on Tuesday , July 21 , at 10am and is expected to last one day . |
| 7 | thought or expect to demonstrate one point |
| 8 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 9 | Racal Telecom 's progress in car telephone and data transmission is expected to double six month 's profit , tomorrow , from the previous £30.6million.This will be instrumental in boosting the Racal Electronics parent to just over £80million , from £62.4million . |
| 10 | In both blue-collar and white-collar employment , the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived . |
| 11 | Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime . |
| 12 | In Japan , DEC expects to ship 12,000 Model 400 series Alpha machines — available in seven guises — by the end of June 1994 , and 6,000 Model 300s . |
| 13 | It expects to invite 50–75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35–50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese . |