Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] expect [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 2 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 3 | Bernard was at the least reckoning an ambitious yeoman , the kind we expect to find purchasing land , like the Chibnalls of Sherington , not selling — unless , of course , he had done so in order to finance the purchase of his lease , or to stock the new and very much bigger farm ; but this is pure speculation . |
| 4 | In a long poem we expect to find breathing-spaces interspersed between the more important sections of the poem ; in The Prelude the real matter is the philosophy , and the narrative passages , as can be clearly seen here , are illustrations of it . |
| 5 | MORE tea , vicar ? is not the sort of thing I expected to ask minutes after arriving in a Swiss ski resort . |
| 6 | Like a bottle you expect to have whisky in and it turns out to be full of a specimen for the doctor . ’ |
| 7 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 8 | At this time it was , to use Nettl 's term , an ‘ inheritor party ’ ; that is to say , a party which expects to inherit power following the decline and overthrow of the existing political system and its socio-economic basis . |
| 9 | Abbey National already provided a receipt for mortgage monies ; and a practice rule could be introduced requiring a solicitor who expected to receive evidence of payment to report the matter if this were not forthcoming in a prescribed period . |
| 10 | On a new house one expects to see shrinkage cracks in the plaster on walls and ceilings , but not on the outside . |