Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | We expect all parents to support our aims fully and to uphold our Catholic ethos . |
9 | Voters expect all governments to put up taxes . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
16 | Some journals expect outgoing editors to retain responsibility for work in progress when they leave . |
17 | We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The organisers expect 500,000 spectators to line the route from Blackheath to Westminster Bridge . |
20 | They expect other nations to set technical standards and to innovate new markets . |
21 | In this research , the investigator plans to study the possibility that adults on occasion expect young children to behave as if they already have an accurate conception of the process of communication , and that as a result of being expected to behave in this more mature way they come to realise why that behaviour is appropriate . |
22 | Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language , skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire . |
23 | This in itself provides some considerable insight into what students of literature regard as " literary " , at least in terms of the kinds of structures which they expect literary texts to exhibit . |
24 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
25 | ‘ Under the new arrangements we have forecast total ERDF receipts in Scotland of £120 million and , on past experience , we expect local authorities to obtain around £75 million , ’ Mr Lang said . |
26 | You expect most candidates to make you offers and promises — that would be the old way . |