Example sentences of "expect a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Supervisors demand to be kept fully informed , and expect a field officer to have at his fingertips all relevant details about any pollution and the people involved .
2 Half the crowd expect a punk band and half are curious old gits who remember organ bands the first time around .
3 For example , suppose we have a company from which we expect a dividend growth of 25 per cent for the next 5 years .
4 The commission has found that councils expect a tax collection level of 94 per cent .
5 None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult .
6 No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 .
7 None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test .
8 Power Chess is as expected a computer implementation of the famous strategic board game .
9 For example , if , despite expecting the aggregate demand curve to be at AD 1 , people in general expected a price level of P , the actual price level will not be P : thus expectations and the model are in conflict .
10 You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover .
11 The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal .
12 The United States baby can expect a life span of 70 years , and in the United Kingdom this rises to 71 years .
13 We would therefore not expect a yield curve to be constructed using both government and corporate bonds , since these would be from different risk classes .
14 So , if the rational person thinks that the aggregate demand curve will be at AD 1 he must also expect a price level of P 2 .
15 If as Mr Dalyell alleges , the EEC is about the push for lead-free petrol , one can expect a propaganda barrage more far reaching than Associated Octels recent £100 000 advertising campaign .
16 How can you expect a computer man to understand in detail all aspects of a user 's requirements ?
17 ‘ John Major has been consistently talking about the need to keep wages down so we did n't expect a pay award twice the level of inflation . ’
18 Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway .
19 In the Muslim republics , nationalism was espoused first and foremost by fundamentalist religious groups from which the urban population did not expect a market economy and democracy .
20 Moreover , Buzzell and Gale argue that , as larger-share businesses do not continuously increase their ROI differential over small-share businesses , one would expect a zero correlation between the change in ROI and market share , which is broadly what Jacobson and Aaker found .
21 According to Robert Half and Accountemps , based in the South of England , a newly qualified in Greater London can now expect a starting salary of £28,000 in commerce and industry and up to £26,000 in public practice .
22 Officials insisted they did not expect a Cabinet reshuffle .
23 Since the subjects in Study 2 did not expect a recognition phase it was clearly not sufficient to simply repeat the study without subjects making any judgments , instead judgment tasks had to be found that were not related to risk and were still sufficiently engaging for subjects not to suspect a memory test afterwards .
24 Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself .
25 It will also put you on notice to expect a commission account after contracts are exchanged .
26 It is reasonable to expect a line ferret to make a steady rather than spectacular rate of progress .
27 Malcolm had been told to expect a prison sentence , but the judge took pity on him , saying that he had been provoked by racial abuse from drunken louts .
28 The switch has surprised Wembley , who expected a home game against Spain , and has disappointed the Spanish FA , who hoped they were being invited to London for only the second time in 20 years .
29 JUST before Budget Day we told the story of the Brentford Football Club fan who occupies a senior post at the Treasury and we expected a giveaway Budget if Brentford were leading the Third Division table at the time .
30 She said : ‘ Leo went to answer it because we were expecting a constituency worker with some papers .
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