Example sentences of "expect people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most career jobs expect people to work more than nine-to-five hours , to travel abroad or move house if necessary , maybe to attend conferences at weekends or socialise in the evenings ; in short , to put work before family . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect people will react to the idea in a typical way . |
| 3 | I would then emerge , beaming , and expect people to warm instantly to me . |
| 4 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 5 | ‘ Lee Clark certainly has the potential to score a lot of goals and I expect people like Brian Kilcline to hit some from set pieces . ’ |
| 6 | Aiming at 70 Implementor sales for 1993 , Hugh McCartney , the company 's managing director said that 75% of business will still come from people developing applications for the AS/400 : ‘ We expect people to migrate in two to three years . |
| 7 | I expect people to regard this as my house and not to abuse my privacy . |
| 8 | I expect people stop demonstrating for all sorts of reasons : age , infirmity , clashing responsibilities , or sheer apathy . |
| 9 | We expect people to pay their debts . |
| 10 | But I still ex I still out of courtesy expect people to phone but may be I 'm old fashioned . |
| 11 | Mind you I expect people could come round here and say |
| 12 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't see how you can expect people to follow your lead , to trust you , to commit themselves to the business unless they believe that all of these things are dear to your heart . ’ |
| 14 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 15 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 16 | We would , of course , expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written . |
| 17 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 18 | How do they expect people to visit ? ’ |
| 19 | But do n't expect people wo n't notice , love . |
| 20 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 21 | How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ? |
| 22 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
| 23 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 24 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 25 | ‘ If you will make such a mystery man of yourself , ’ Robbie retorted , ‘ you must expect people to be curious . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How can you expect people to take you seriously , if you do n't have any convictions about anything ? ’ |
| 27 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 28 | But be warned — he 's an unashamed surrealist and does n't expect people to understand his paintings now any more than they did then . |
| 29 | You have to sell yourself and your ideas this year so do n't expect people to automatically recognise your merit and worth . |
| 30 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |