Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 2 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 3 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 4 | A United Kingdom Foreign Office spokesman welcomed the development and said that he expected the European Communities ( EC ) to move " swiftly " to lift its bans on the import of South African iron , steel and of gold coins . |
| 5 | One might have expected the intense difficulties confronting British film producers to stimulate discussion ; instead it seems to have narrowed their perspective . |
| 6 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 7 | Expect the Young Ones crossed with Beetlejuice , Kevin Turvey meets the Female Brat Pack ( Phoebe Cates , Bridget Fonda ) and an example of how to make an Anglo-American film and make it work . |
| 8 | ‘ Expect the poor things needed a holiday . |
| 9 | I would suggest to you colleagues , it 's because the , your expectations and those of the , er , the other erm , stake holders involved in the other agencies about joint planning depends on what you expect the joint structures to carry . |
| 10 | It is not always so obvious in relationships , where we often expect the bright flames of love to burn out of their own purity and spontaneity , but they too need refuelling in what may be quite prosaic ways . |
| 11 | This assumption is not necessarily an appropriate one , and we might , for example , expect the random terms to be correlated across individuals ( e.g. , reflecting the state of the economy ) . |
| 12 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 13 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 14 | Indeed , how much longer can we expect the other provinces to continue carrying us ? |
| 15 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 16 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 17 | This consists of : The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Although there is no legal requirement for companies to comply with SSAP9 , auditors will expect the financial accounts of companies to meet the guidelines laid down . |
| 18 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 19 | TOURISTS going abroad can expect the following rates for sterling : |
| 20 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 21 | Do n't expect the various parts of solutions to problems to occur to you in the " right " order . |
| 22 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 23 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 24 | Persons buying products bearing those names are entitled to expect the particular standards associated with them . |
| 25 | This time , the ITB expects the participating firms to score at least £5m in direct sales . |