Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] expects " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years she has been complaining ‘ I never see anything of you , darling ’ and ‘ Why ca n't you spend a little more time with the family ? ’ — so naturally he expects her to be delighted to have him at home . |
| 2 | The Policyholder 's Doctor may indicate how long he expects his patient to be absent from work but normally every claim will have to be looked at individually and an appropriate estimate advised to I.S. As benefits are paid at four-weekly intervals , at least four weeks benefit must be estimated . |
| 3 | Normally one expects the individual to acquire a structure then practise it until he achieves competence in it in communication ; but the input hypothesis says the opposite is true : in order to acquire structure , we first need to deal with meaning . |
| 4 | Tin is a metal and somehow everybody expects metals to be strong . |
| 5 | Micky Yornutta is not so sure , so he asked Brian what exactly he expects from his side and Brian , as ever , decided not to sit on the fence , but the main concern being for his side to pass the ball as opposed to kicking it , but first Brian says that long ball to John Durnin is all wrong . |
| 6 | Three halls have been hired , just in case the split which nearly everyone expects occurs . |
| 7 | And now he expects me to clean and cook for him . ’ |
| 8 | Last week the receivers moved in and now he expects to lose his home as well as his business . |
| 9 | Surely no-one expects Coyle , Billy Hamilton , etc to apply while still in employment elsewhere . |
| 10 | Today she expects the delivery man will bring her customary greeting from the Queen . |
| 11 | Mr Major has already asked Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other EC leaders to delay any decisions , at least until the EC summit at Maastricht in early December : presumably he expects to call an election this autumn . |
| 12 | Strathclyde roads department says the most it expects to receive from the European Regional Development Fund in the coming financial year is £7.5 million . |
| 13 | The least one expects to find is a well-appointed house with interesting decorative features . |
| 14 | While , theoretically , local authorities may spend their own incomes in ways they themselves choose , the government , in calculating local government grants , increasingly indicates how it expects the authorities to allocate funds between priorities . |
| 15 | Oldham boss Peter Tunks has , I understand , already held talks with Strett and , should he clinch a deal with the 24-year-old Orrell stand-off , then he expects to follow up with a tempting contract for England winger Heslop . |
| 16 | The company revealed in course it expects to pay out £1,412,336 in compensation , as well as the clean up operation , which is still going on . |
| 17 | Maybe he expects to be house hunting . |
| 18 | Will he also tell us when he expects the nuclear levy , which is still rising , to start to fall in the light of this morning 's results from Nuclear Electric ? |
| 19 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 20 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |