Example sentences of "they expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 2 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 3 | The day they expect me to pay for it , I shall retire . |
| 4 | DSP seems a particularly important topic since it represents the doorway between the way that people do things and the tasks which they expect electronics to do . |
| 5 | City economists welcomed the decision to raise rates and defend the pound 's value , which they expect to subdue inflation more effectively . |
| 6 | They expect it . |
| 7 | ‘ They expect us to win by a reasonable margin nowadays . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The other board members will expect to have their say , but at the end of the day they expect , and accept , that the chairman should decide . ’ |
| 9 | Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’ |
| 10 | Tournament officials , though unwilling to say precisely how the appearance money will be distributed , confirmed they expect to pay out £400,000 to ensure a quality 32-man field . |
| 11 | That £150 million will be reduced after the liquidators have handed over the money they expect to recover ( at least £60 mil lion ) and possibly more if other claims are pursued by the DTI . |
| 12 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 13 | When big investors get on the telephone they expect to be put through to the chairman , not ‘ lumbered into a PR-type department ’ . |
| 14 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 15 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 16 | Fundamentalists believe so totally in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that they expect lives to be touched and changed . |
| 17 | They expect and they grow . |
| 18 | Like the French , they expect everyone to understand their language . |
| 19 | People forget these things , she thought , they do not bear them in mind , doctors work to routine , finding only what they expect to find , they glimpse these cases in a newspaper and then pass on , they are hide-bound , they do not remember . |
| 20 | Horses do try to communicate with us , and they expect us to understand . |
| 21 | Anyone worrying — as dealers and Christie 's once did — that these thousands of 300-year-old pots will flood the market need only look at Harrods , where Nanking Cargo plates have been selling regularly and at increasing prices since the auction ( £195 for a good teabowl , £7,000 for an ‘ encrusted ’ tureen ) and where , after the Vung Tau auction , the new pieces will also be for sale from , they expect , £50 to £10,000 . |
| 22 | Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned . |
| 23 | They expect to sell to a developer and move into a modern bungalow on 13 acres less than a mile away . |
| 24 | They expect at least 80 , and possibly more than 100 , Labour MPs to join up . |
| 25 | A Gallup poll of businessmen has revealed that they expect interest rates to be 1.6 per cent higher under Labour . |
| 26 | Premier League chairmen struck a note of compromise rather than confrontation in London yesterday and they expect Mr Taylor to respond . |
| 27 | Directors said they expect to pay an interim and a final in the current year . |
| 28 | The Second Division club fear they will be allotted 17,800 tickets if Liverpool overcome Portsmouth at Villa Park , though they expect to receive more if Portsmouth reach the final . |
| 29 | There is also a slight improvement on the jobs front with 30 p.c. of directors saying they expect to recruit more compared with 25 p.c. in the earlier survey . |
| 30 | They expect the pound to drop two pfennigs from last night 's close of Dm2.84 if Labour is in power . |