Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plans , expected to include cuts in some minister 's budgets , will be revealed in the chancellor 's autumn statement next week . |
| 2 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 3 | She expected to see signs of fury in his eyes at that stab but she saw nothing to indicate any such irritation . |
| 4 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 5 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |
| 6 | A £1.5m scheme of cash incentives to encourage business development , expected to attract £165,000 from Europe ; |
| 7 | The Leeds Permanent building society expected to increase rates by at least 1.25 per cent . |
| 8 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 9 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 10 | His only child was an infant daughter but he also had two adult brothers , William and Ademar , who clearly expected to obtain possession of the county and be the guardians of their niece . |
| 11 | These communication styles can be expected to induce difficulties in the listener 's ability to focus attention and handle the meaning of what is being said . |
| 12 | Capital spending this year is expected to hit £300m of which £130m is likely to be overseas . |
| 13 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 14 | It is expected to go beta in March next year . |
| 15 | On the basis of this knowledge the replacement of adenine by 3-deazaadenine would be expected to disrupt hydration in the minor groove and therefore destabilise a B-type DNA helix . |
| 16 | The separatist Slovak government is expected to continue work on the dam despite protests . |
| 17 | The radicals were widely expected to lose seats after a committee judging the suitability of candidates prevented about 1,000 of the 3,000 hopefuls from taking part , including several well-known radicals . |
| 18 | With OECD stocks at their lowest level since 1989 and political uncertainty prevailing in many oil producing regions , prices are expected to remain firm for the remainder of 1992 . |
| 19 | Business with industrial and commercial companies and financial institutions is expected to remain flat in the next quarter but business with individuals is likely to fall further . |
| 20 | I mean there 's chaps like myself — about twelve stone ten pounds — you were expected to carry bags of barley at sixteen stone four ; and sometimes there was n't a job for you in the hard days when there was a lot of men out of work . |
| 21 | But future Landsat craft can be expected to carry sensors at least as sensitive as the thematic mapper . |
| 22 | Up to 200 children infected with HIV , the Aids virus , by tainted blood products are expected to claim compensation from the Government . |
| 23 | Many of the workers are expected to claim interest on the payments , averaging £500 each . |
| 24 | ‘ We can not be expected to draft legislation at this stage , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The nature of those replies , which are expected to include details of the tax matters , will determine whether the committee decides to ask the National Audit Office to re-open its investigation of the sale , and whether it is necessary to summon Lord Young . |
| 26 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares jumped almost 8.5% on Friday on hopes that the government will spend heavily on a major new communications network : Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on Thursday that an economic stimulus package , widely expected to include funds for a network of high-speed fibre optic cables , would be even larger than 1992 's supplementary budget ; if the government steps in with new funding , the state-controlled phone company would likely end up laying the cable and providing services ; the project is the one first mooted back in the early 1980s to connect every home and business in Japan . |
| 27 | Prices on RISC- and Intel-based servers are expected to fall 20% to 25% early next year , it says , as vendors respond to the low-priced entries of the IBM Server 85 XP486 and the trend-setting Compaq Computer Corp ProSignia . |
| 28 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 29 | Having said that , it is important to add that interaction rate is also related to children 's age : older children are usually expected to sustain concentration for longer periods than younger children . |
| 30 | But now with a fifty billion pound deficit to contend with the Chancellor is expected to see VAT on books and newspapers as a useful source of income . |