Example sentences of "expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spurs , unbeaten in six games , expect striker Gordon Durie to play with stitches in the head wound he sustained on international duty with Scotland . |
| 2 | And with harassed English treasurers now seeking help from the Scots on how to implement the tax next April , one senior council official said he could offer only two words of advice — ‘ Expect chaos . ’ |
| 3 | Insurers expect storm battering |
| 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 | Few expect change while Erich Honecker remains leader . |
| 6 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 7 | I expect tea 's ready by now . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We expect opposition , ’ says dreadlocked troupe member Fox , ‘ because we 're dealing with a bigger picture than the odd jokes about West Indian parents . |
| 9 | Meanwhile from eastern Europe expect investment to become a two-way traffic . |
| 10 | Naturally , in football management you expect ridicule and criticism , and you must always rise above it , especially if it is constructive , but this poor excuse for a handkerchief seems obsessed not with football but with my receding hairline , e.g. the ‘ Spot The Baldy ’ competition on page two , and with making juvenile remarks about my beer gut . |
| 11 | They expect pleasure to cost money . |
| 12 | I expect auntie has told you everything and you have been too busy to come , but please come now . |
| 13 | No well they say , Away man , and expe expect child to come to them . |
| 14 | Expect laughter and tears all the way through this spicy tale of highbrow Alice Potter divorced from an infamous husband , and now pursued by the Press gang . |
| 15 | Based on a survey of 250 companies , the report says that " over two thirds of companies expect operating costs to increase as a result of addressing environmental issues " and notes that " there is considerable uncertainty about the commercial benefits of responding to many environmental concerns " . |
| 16 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 17 | In Japanese tradition , expect equipment levels to be high . |
| 18 | But some foreign bankers also expect South Korea to develop into a regional financial centre second only to Hong Kong on the Asian mainland . |
| 19 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 20 | ( The hypothesis supposes that voters have a short memory : they expect continuity only from the incumbent . ) |
| 21 | We expect GDP to grow by 1.25 per cent this year , with the recovery gathering pace . |
| 22 | I expect Daddy did . |
| 23 | I expect Bodo is wondering where I am . |
| 24 | If we expect failure , we need n't take risks . |
| 25 | We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn , and we expect saintliness from them as well . |
| 26 | Only Prof Congdon thinks the Chancellor should raise taxes next month to balance a loose monetary policy , and the other six advise against a rise , though all agree the Chancellor needs to explain his strategy clearly and three more expect tax increases in 1994 . |
| 27 | Of course , whether people are refused credit because of their probable inability to repay , or whether they do not apply for it because they expect refusal on the same grounds , the results are the same . |
| 28 | The analysis shows 31 p.c. of financial institutions expect business volumes to increase in the present three-month period , against 17 p.c. forecasting a fall . |
| 29 | There is no question but that firms that expect recovery do not lay off workers . |
| 30 | Many first-time visitors are taken in , and expect exoticism . |