Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects exports to reach the same level as imports .
2 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 . ’
3 To ask the Lord President of the Council when he expects results from the feasibility study on refreshment facilities for visitors to the House .
4 Tim Eggar , the Energy Minister , told the conference that he expected recommendations by the end of the month from a working group on offshore costs chaired by John d'Ancona , the head of the Glasgow-based Offshore Supplies Office .
5 One only has to compare the uniformity of contemporary stations with the richness , profusion , and variety in British nineteenth-century stations : the classical temple of Huddersfield , the Byzantine basilica of Blackfriars , the robust Jacobean manor-house of Stoke-on-Trent , the scholarly Jacobean collegiate buildings of Shrewsbury and Carlisle , the ‘ Russian dacha ’ of Petworth , the ‘ baroque orangery ’ of Newmarket , the airy French pavilion of Slough , the medieval Gothic abbey of Battle , the Queen Anne town house of Market Harborough and Birkenhead Woodside , so much like the great hall of a medieval house that one expects rushes on the floor , minstrels in the gallery , and foaming tankards of old ale .
6 Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis .
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