Example sentences of "expect [det] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles . |
| 2 | In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade . |
| 3 | We expect all parents to support our aims fully and to uphold our Catholic ethos . |
| 4 | Voters expect all governments to put up taxes . |
| 5 | I expect many mothers have had the experience of standing at the sink washing and re-washing dishes because a teenage son or daughter is standing in the kitchen talking about something important , and once the dish-washing is over , he or she will go away . |
| 6 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 7 | As might be expected any questions involving decimals were rather demanding , but it is noticeable that where the answer included a half success rates were higher than for 0.1 or unc and other decimals . |
| 8 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 9 | You expect most candidates to make you offers and promises — that would be the old way . |
| 10 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 11 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 12 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 13 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 14 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
| 15 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 16 | Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle . |
| 17 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 18 | Do not expect these wines to taste like champagne . |
| 19 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 20 | Normally we 'd expect these buoys to move west in the south equatorial current under the influence of the south easterly trade winds but during alminio winds become weak and westerly and buoys putting off the coast of Peru seemed to wander about aimlessly . |
| 21 | Although they appear to have stabilised , we do not expect those markets to settle down until Spring next year particularly with the impact of a weak dollar . |
| 22 | ( Mar 21-Apr 20 ) The situation in the heavens is rather complex , if not explosive , at the moment and you really can not expect any favours to come your way either at home or on the work front . |
| 23 | The company says it does n't expect enough volunteers to come forward to cover the six hundred job losses announced yesterday but union policy is firmly against enforced lay-offs . |
| 24 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 25 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
| 26 | Of course , one has to expect such things to occur amongst maids and footmen , and a good butler should always take this into account in his planning ; but such marrying amongst more senior employees can have an extremely disruptive effect on work . |
| 27 | After a meeting with umpires Steve Randell and Terry Prue , Subba Row said in a statement that he expected all players to adhere to proper standards of behaviour . |
| 28 | Bolger took office on Oct. 28 and announced his new 18-member Cabinet on Nov. 1 , using the occasion to stress that he expected all Ministers to observe the tradition of collective responsibility . |
| 29 | We 're expecting some students to get merit . |
| 30 | As teacher expectation has been shown to influence achievement , we may also need to examine how teachers are socialised into expecting some groups to fail . |