Example sentences of "expect [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study .
2 It is expected the two incentives will result in £30 million extra for Britain 's trusts and charities .
3 Under the experimental onslaught being marshalled , most expect the 17 keV neutrino to wither and die .
4 Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ?
5 Middlesbrough have sold their full 4,000 allocation and Wolves expect a 20,000 crowd .
6 Trent did n't expect the twelve thicknesses of cotton sheet to last but each minute that they held would gain precious distance .
7 Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology .
8 Managers did not expect the two pieces of equipment would compete with each other .
9 They boasted that it was the worst they 'd ever known , and could expect a million profit with confidence .
10 I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme .
11 I feel that once parents begin to become too aware of norms , they worry , and therefore unless a child is grossly out of sync , if you like , with their peers , I would n't say it would matter , but yes , one would expect a three year old to be talking at one extreme .
12 Since the value of credit vouchers issued exceeds the sale of gift vouchers approximately six to one , it is felt unreasonable to expect the nine branches local to Savacentre to take a disproportionately high cost .
13 She was told to expect a five hour delay … in the event she endured a nine hour wait …
14 Returning to the expected tetrahedral form , we can assign the polarized Raman bands to three of the four expected a 1 modes .
15 Diana , who had been expecting the two boys to join her at Althorp in Northamptonshire today , phoned them briefly yesterday morning .
16 For example , if the current one-year rate is rs 1 = 6.5 per cent and the market is expecting the one-year rate in a year 's time to be = 7.5 per cent , then the market is expecting a 100 investment in two one-year bonds to yield 100 ( 1.065 ) ( 1.075 ) = 114.49 after two years .
17 The waitress counts her tip as if reasonably expecting a million dollars for all the aggravation caused .
18 They were expecting a three day music festival at this site near Milton Keynes .
19 The Eagles are expecting a 10,000 crowd for the visit of the champions .
20 Essential 's David Stokes expects the seven employee company to double that effort this year .
21 He also expects the three versions to be interoperable by 1995 .
22 He also expects the three versions to be interoperable by 1995 .
23 House broker County NatWest expects a 36 p.c. rise to £14.4m pre-tax for 1991 and sees £19.3m as attainable this year .
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