Example sentences of "[Wh det] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another device of guestroom rhetoric was to ask questions into the air , not directed at anyone , which expected and received the answer sahha ! |
| 2 | The contract is a kick in the teeth for British workers at Westinghouse Signal , which expected to clinch the £100 million deal . |
| 3 | Since an increase in expected inflation of percentage points shifts the Phillips curve vertically by percentage points , it follows that the level of unemployment at which expected and actual inflation are equal is the same for all possible values of expected inflation . |
| 4 | ‘ According to the witnesses we have consulted , it seems likely that the growth expectations set forth in the Second National Plan ( 1954–57 ) were in contradiction to the conventional wisdom at the beginning of the 1950s , which expected that only low rates of growth were possible … |
| 5 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
| 6 | You will have been given a time at which to expect clearance to leave the hold — this could be either EAT or OCT . |
| 7 | COATS Viyella , the textile group which expects to hear whether it is allowed to take over rival Tootal in the next few days , has sold its medical businesses to Pharma-Plast Holdings for £12m . |
| 8 | Contradictions in a system which expects players to concentrate on football , yet not be paid ( unless you count scholarships ? ) are causing increasing problems . |
| 9 | The same can not be said at Ford , which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday 's 1,180 . |
| 10 | That cost will now be shared with MCI , which expects the venture to be profitable after two years . |
| 11 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 12 | an atomic formula is one of the form p ( t , t , … t ) where each t is a term , and p is a predicate symbol which expects k arguments ( i.e. p has arity k ) . |
| 13 | I agree that it is self-evident that any viable human society which expects to perpetuate itself through procreation ( rather than through some other form of recruitment ) must institutionalize some means of creating an environment in which children may be reared . |
| 14 | At this time it was , to use Nettl 's term , an ‘ inheritor party ’ ; that is to say , a party which expects to inherit power following the decline and overthrow of the existing political system and its socio-economic basis . |
| 15 | Words to be underlined are " bracketed " with ∘S The program produces an output file suitable for a printer which expects such words to be bracketed by ∘Y . |
| 16 | The first and biggest is that no nation which expects to take its place in the world order should be in the business of commissioning international vengeance and terrorism . |
| 17 | More than 30,000 pupils from 70 Wirral schools have been raising money for Winch , which expects to hand over a five-figure cheque to the national appeal the following Friday . |
| 18 | Fifty thousand went to America last year , the stricter regulations there have switched attention to Israel , which expects three quarters of a million in the next five years . |
| 19 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 20 | ‘ Those who do come back should tell the young men what to expect . ’ |
| 21 | The winner is alert as to what to expect next . |
| 22 | As for Provincial , if you were visiting an area in which you were not quite sure what to expect , you might find Mark 1 or 2 ( the latter air conditioned or otherwise ) locomotive-hauled rakes of various lengths and compositions , first-generation multiple units ( anything from one to nine cars , riding roughly but still with forward and rear vision ) , or the latest Sprinters , plain , super or express , many with privately run buffet-trolley service on long cross-country journeys . |
| 23 | It is the first pull of the day so we all know what to expect . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the Unit Trust Association has published its Customer Code which explains what to expect from an investment in unit trusts . |
| 25 | But with personal contact through the old jobbing system on the floor of the Stock Exchange , experienced people could see Old Joe coming and knew what to expect — even if they might sometimes join in to make a little extra money . |
| 26 | In Germany in 1939 , a British Gentile , let alone a Jew , knew what to expect of the Nazi authorities and got out if they could . |
| 27 | Age and experience were valued in the belief that length of days had provided some guidance on how to live and what to expect in the life to come . |
| 28 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 29 | Anyone who saw them with Soul II Soul will have some idea of what to expect , but not the whole story . |
| 30 | He got to his feet and walked on tip-toe to the kitchen door , where he pressed his face close to the crack , listening for any sound that might tell him what to expect . |