Example sentences of "expect [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bristol City chairman Leslie Kew , also chairman of the strife-torn Anglo-Italian Cup said last night that he expected the competition to be staged again next year despite the appalling disciplinary record in this season 's tournament . |
| 2 | His emphasis on a one-party state surprised many Zimbabwean political analysts , who expected the issue to be quietly forgotten . |
| 3 | But they were separated from al-Dhouri and Jassim by a line of soldiers clutching their Kalashnikovs , as if they fully expected the platform to be stormed by the pre-pubescent performers . |
| 4 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 5 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 6 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 7 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 8 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 9 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 10 | Nobody expected the pupils to be paragons of perfection The standards the principal expected of herself were a different matter entirely . |
| 11 | Listeners expected the radio to be relevant to problems as they saw them . |
| 12 | At that time most people expected the galaxies to be moving around quite randomly , and so expected to find as many blue-shifted spectra as red-shifted ones . |
| 13 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 14 | She expected the receiver to be replaced . |
| 15 | We would have expected the fraction to be approximately one-third , because Kleisthenes divided Attica into three , not four : city , coast and inland . |
| 16 | I had expected the women to be fairly distant cousins of the Emperors . |
| 17 | It was no particular shock when I found out ; I had expected the test to be positive . |
| 18 | Dalgliesh had expected the room to be impressive , but it still surprised him . |
| 19 | I had expected the cock to crow , that day . |
| 20 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 21 | Now , we expect the prince to be far less sensitive about their relationship . ’ |
| 22 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
| 23 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
| 24 | The sponsors expect the service to be self-supporting after five years . |
| 25 | We expect the law to be enforced , we expect it to be held because every citizen who lives under that law may change it . |
| 26 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 27 | I wonder how many teachers do give consideration to ‘ what the boys will like ’ when choosing a class text , and expect the girls to be more tolerant of the choice made . |
| 28 | The contract was to have been the first to be awarded under the new no frills fast track process — but some observers now expect the tender to be scrapped altogether and replaced with a Desktop V tender . |
| 29 | Most physiological psychologists expect the brain to be made up of complementary modules and that lesions will produce double dissociations . |
| 30 | This teacher afterwards remarked that she could not just ‘ set ’ activities such as problem-solving or project work of this kind and expect the children to be able to manage on their own . |