Example sentences of "expect [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is expected the two incentives will result in £30 million extra for Britain 's trusts and charities . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Trent did n't expect the twelve thicknesses of cotton sheet to last but each minute that they held would gain precious distance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Managers did not expect the two pieces of equipment would compete with each other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Returning to the expected tetrahedral form , we can assign the polarized Raman bands to three of the four expected a 1 modes . |
| 8 | Diana , who had been expecting the two boys to join her at Althorp in Northamptonshire today , phoned them briefly yesterday morning . |
| 9 | The waitress counts her tip as if reasonably expecting a million dollars for all the aggravation caused . |
| 10 | He also expects the three versions to be interoperable by 1995 . |
| 11 | He also expects the three versions to be interoperable by 1995 . |