Example sentences of "they expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 2 | DELEGATES to the International Coffee Organisation meeting in London said they expected to begin drawing up a framework within which economic clauses could eventually be reintroduced into the agreement . |
| 3 | As a result of the increase , some banks and building societies said they expected to raise mortgage rates by between 1 and 1.5 per cent , probably from 1 November . |
| 4 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 5 | But more frequently it arose that , in the absence of a policewoman , the female field-worker was relied upon for comfort by female members of the public , engaging her in eye contact to find what they expected would be a special ‘ feminine ’ understanding and reassurance . |
| 6 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 7 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 8 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 9 | Several members of the prison staff said they expected to be victimised for helping to form the union . |
| 10 | The force 's immediate task is to ensure free elections in Nicaragua , and the Nicaraguan delegates said they expected to play ‘ a very positive role ’ . |
| 11 | Analysts said they expected the group to have no big problems persuading shareholders to approve the restructuring plans at an extraordinary general meeting on December 21 . |
| 12 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 13 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 14 | From four hundred members they expected to rise to hundreds of thousands in the coming ‘ death agony of capitalism ’ . |
| 15 | A joint study by Keefe , Bruyette $ Woods , a stockbrokerage that specialises in bank shares , and Ernst $ Young , a firm of accountants , found that banks achieved an average 35% saving in costs when they joined forces ( admittedly less than they expected ) . |
| 16 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 17 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
| 18 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 19 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 20 | Carr , to his credit , never stopped coming forward and he caused Wharton many problems until the eighth round , but the Yorkshireman then delighted his home town supporters by producing the kind of punching power they expected of him . |
| 21 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 22 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 23 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 24 | The war now being effectively over , they expected Richard Baxter to return to them . |
| 25 | Just what they expected . |
| 26 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 27 | The monks of the Middle Ages used to practise ‘ divine reading ’ , which meant that they expected their lives to be transformed as a result of what they read . |
| 28 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 29 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 30 | But then came the bad weather and the frost — they did n't allow for you being knee-deep in snow — they expected you to be where you should be . |