Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’ |
| 2 | Er , and I expect that margin to continue rising and be much higher again next year , so the medicine is working there . |
| 3 | I expect further applications to come in during the next year and , with time , a growing number of applications as the benefits are seen to come through . |
| 4 | How do you know whether anything has been a success , or whether you 're doing anything right , unless you ask , and we expect this rationale to follow through into our community investment programme . |
| 5 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
| 6 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 7 | We expect British Rail to give urgent consideration to the timing of the placement of that order . |
| 8 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 9 | Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles . |
| 10 | This is version one of what promises to be one of the leading packages in this field , and , given that that is the case , I expect future versions to add greatly to its functionality . |
| 11 | The modest Japanese demand for Grimshaw and a few other Victorian artists such as Henry Parker , Breanski and David James is now subdued , though Christie 's expect Japanese dealers to take about 5% of a Victorian sale . |
| 12 | Most researchers expect global temperatures to have experienced about half the predicted equilibrium temperature by the 2030s , that is , 1–2 C warmer than it is now . |
| 13 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He disapproves of bribery : ‘ Children do n't need to be saddled with the nagging aspirations of parents who expect little Johnny to do everything they did plus everything they did n't manage to do . ’ |
| 16 | We expect all parents to support our aims fully and to uphold our Catholic ethos . |
| 17 | Voters expect all governments to put up taxes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 20 | But because a given change in performance has less effect on fitness later in life , we expect deleterious mutations to cause a greater drop in fertility and survival probability later in life , assuming the same mutation rate for each age . |
| 21 | Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 23 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 24 | Some journals expect outgoing editors to retain responsibility for work in progress when they leave . |
| 25 | We open tonight , expect wonderful reception judging by other performances . ’ |
| 26 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 27 | But some analysts expect Euro Disney to make losses until 1996 . |
| 28 | We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from . |
| 29 | He could not do it if he were not the landlord , although in general you can not , in the late twentieth century , expect high-minded landlords to do your planning for you . |
| 30 | The organisers expect 500,000 spectators to line the route from Blackheath to Westminster Bridge . |