Example sentences of "expect the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fully expected the basement door to be bolted . |
| 2 | My fears were shared by youthful friends and even adult relatives at times seemed to ‘ chivvy ’ us along as if they too expected the ghost train to rush by . |
| 3 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 4 | However , a Midland Bank spokesman said the group expected the dividend flow from the investments acquired to be preferable to the dividend flow from its Argentinian loan portfolio . |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia , a democratic state with a mass socialist and trade-union movement , had been handed to the Nazis by the National government , which now expected the labour movement to support a war for Poland , a society much less attractive to democrats let alone socialists . |
| 6 | Party officials half expected the trade talks to break down eventually , at which point Mr Abe would make his entrance . |
| 7 | Marx and Engels expected the arbiter state to be an untypical regime under capitalism , quickly superseded as the onward rush of history produced decisive shifts of power towards the proletariat . |
| 8 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 9 | One would also have expected the density fluctuations in such a model to have led to the formation of many more primordial black holes than the upper limit that has been set by observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 10 | Fenella had expected the silver door to feel cool and silvery and solid and was surprised when it actually felt extremely hot . |
| 11 | Even with this beta version , no major problems have surfaced , so we expect the release version to be very solid and robust . |
| 12 | The private sector will have an incentive to form an estimate of this policy rule and use the resultant knowledge to arrive at their subjective estimate of what they expect the money supply will be in period . |
| 13 | The Swann Committee had also noted ‘ the views expressed very clearly to us at our various meetings with parents from the whole range of ethnic minority groups that they want and indeed expect the education system to give their children above all a good command of English as rapidly as possible ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect the coach company are using this one while the usual coach is being repaired . ’ |
| 15 | Political analysts expect the Labor government to call the poll some time in February , about five weeks before it is held . |
| 16 | For example , we expect the core skills included in all general SVQs to be amenable to an integrative approach . |
| 17 | Both Mr Porter and Mr Graham expect the NIE issue to very popular , with many local investors keen to hold on to the shares so that they can qualify for the discount vouchers will entitle them to money off their electricity bills . |
| 18 | That is a beginning , but I expect the insurance industry to do much more in helping to reduce car crime . |
| 19 | But with an 8 litre engine , expect the petrol bills to be as outrageous as the car . |
| 20 | And as I mentioned earlier Longman expect the cash flow this year to be better than last year despite the the reduction in profits . |
| 21 | We expect the mortgage lenders — the responsible ones — to play their part in that . |
| 22 | The Government are playing their part to alleviate those difficulties and we expect the mortgage lenders — all the responsible ones — to play their part in that . |
| 23 | It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , yes , but you ca n't very well knock on a monastery gate and say , ‘ May I have some poison ? ’ and expect the father abbot or prior to hand it over without a question . |
| 25 | We have released sites er in the countryside and we expect the countryside protection policy to apply outside the urban areas and outside of the sites that we 've allocated for development . |
| 26 | I expect the Establishment Division refused to supply her with a tape-recorder ( and for good reason , one might think ) , so she 's brought one of her children 's instead . |
| 27 | Hence in such cases we can not expect the twin goals to be met ; in fact it may be that some compromise position has to be reached . |
| 28 | The NZRFU can not really expect the Home Unions to agree to short tours when they place matches on the last two Saturdays of a tour , and put the tourists against top-strength sides at major venues on the two preceding Saturdays . |
| 29 | Aran does n't expect the Transaction Point acquisition to impact end of year net profits to March 31 1993 — the costs will be incurred as an extraordinary item charge . |
| 30 | I do n't think anybody would expect the insurance company to pick up something of that nature . |