Example sentences of "expect [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece and Spain expect emissions to rise by at least 25 per cent and Portugal is expecting rise of between 29-39 per cent , depending on economic growth . |
| 2 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 3 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
| 4 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 5 | Brokers Peter Joseph of Smith New Court and Paul Heath of UBS Phillips & Drew both expect profits to rise to £125m this time . |
| 6 | Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount . |
| 7 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 8 | Er I wonder if there is in fact er a a view that women expect men to have of them that 's th the desirable woman ? |
| 9 | Could one , Peters asked , expect children to learn in the somewhat haphazard fashion that unfettered child-centredness seemed to commend ? |
| 10 | The changed role of the nurse from being carer , provider and giver of advice and direction is also new for Community Mothers and clients who expect nurses to operate from their traditional professional role and to have all the answers , and deal with all the problems . |
| 11 | Simply that in higher education , we expect students to go beyond the material they encompass and to form their own affinity with it . |
| 12 | Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures … |
| 13 | Tournament organisers and the refereeing panel expect competitors to come to the tournament in a fit state to compete , not shrouded in bandages ! |
| 14 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 15 | Landlords of private accommodation may expect rents paid throughout the vacations even if you 're not resident . |
| 16 | We would expect individuals to belong to more than one of these groups . |
| 17 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 18 | In an American film , we must expect characters derived from our native tradition to acquire a pervasive transatlantic twang . |
| 19 | Microsoft Corp is now saying that Windows/NT will be announced on May 24 and that the target is to deliver it before the end of the second quarter , although US PC Week does n't expect ships to start until July ; there 's no exact date , says the company , since it will not ship until the product it is spot-on . |
| 20 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 21 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
| 22 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 23 | Advanced Micro will have a fifth generation microprocessor on the market in 1995 , and other areas were also performing well , with strong sales in non-volatile Flash memory products , where he expected revenues to jump to $200m in 1993 from $45m in 1992 . |
| 24 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 25 | I AM not worried by the tactics of the Tory Whips during the Maastricht debate because any government has the right to expect members elected on its manifesto to push its business through the House . |
| 26 | ‘ It is totally unrealistic to expect trainees to survive on that , ’ Mr Hanson said . |
| 27 | Rather , that person is also entitled to expect others to behave towards him or her in certain ways . |
| 28 | Is it realistic to expect initiatives to come from the people themselves ? |
| 29 | We are expecting exports to rise by 6 per cent . |
| 30 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |