Example sentences of "[noun] expect the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent expected the hurricane to last between eight and ten hours . |
| 2 | The iron-studded door in the central archway looked impervious to battering-rams , but above it , behind a line of similar arches , was the big open terrace on which S. Kettering expected the family to dine — an instruction , Molly thought , which it would be no particular hardship to follow . |
| 3 | Don " t expect the marketplace to buy what you want to deliver . |
| 4 | This indicates that market operators expect the DM to appreciate over the three month period against the dollar . |
| 5 | There was a time when its readers expected the novel to inform or to instruct , to contribute to the definition of a direction for society . |
| 6 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |
| 7 | Until recently most pundits expected the market to improve in the spring of 1991 after stagnating next year . |
| 8 | He placed his flabby hand on the hot little forehead , and Edward expected the fever to disappear like magic . |
| 9 | Initially 90% of the production will go for use in NEC products ; to date demand is highest for the 9.4″ screens used in laptops , although NEC expects the market to grow to a $8,900m market by 2000 , when it hopes to have a 25% market share . |
| 10 | You said the child may not be developing in the way the parent expects the child to develop , and I think that it 's very important for parents to check out their expectations . |
| 11 | You said the child may not be developing in the way the parent expects the child to develop , and I think that it 's very important for parents to check out their expectations . |
| 12 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 13 | Conservationists expect the government to rely on the existing network of 5,800 sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , which are given only limited protection under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 14 | The IMF expects the imbalances to widen again this year and next . |
| 15 | Gartner Group expects the market to start to gain momentum from 1995/96 . |
| 16 | There are just three employees on the payroll now , but McQuillen expects the centre to employ 50 by the end of this year — and 200 jobs are expected to be created within three years . |
| 17 | Levi noted that most of the republics had Jewish communities and said that Israel expected the republics to respect the communities ' rights , including the right to free emigration . |
| 18 | And having voted for party candidates , the electors expected the members returned to Parliament to support the program offered by their leaders at the election . |
| 19 | Clients are paying more slowly and over 40 p.c. of firms expect the situation to worsen . |
| 20 | Is it fair to assume that , in this general election year , the right hon. and learned Gentleman expects the review to lead to a cut in the Government 's minimum standards for education facilities , designed to meet the requirements of the national curriculum ? |
| 21 | Most people expect the PLA to intervene more openly in the next political crisis , but not necessarily in a unified manner . |
| 22 | That is just as well , because , after the initial curiosity value , Muddle expects the attendance to fall to around 500 . |
| 23 | BRITISH officials said yesterday that the German Chancellor , Helmut Kohl , wanted to put pressure on Britain and Denmark to ratify the Maastricht treaty , but added that Britain expected the EC to press ahead with 12 , members not 10 . |
| 24 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |
| 25 | Tulip expects the reorganisation measures it has implemented will trim its costs significantly , with 92 of the 420 Dutch staff being laid off . |
| 26 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 27 | Often tension arises between the mother and the wife of a man and no matter how unjust the attitude of the mother , society expects the son to respect his mother 's wishes more than those of his wife . |
| 28 | Tandem expects the technology to eliminate any remaining unplanned downtime users experience as well as any planned downtime needed for housekeeping chores like changing operating systems on the fly , a key facility in any mission-critical application from E-mail to fare collections . |
| 29 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 30 | But diplomats say that with many opposition politicians in jail and the continuing arrests , few Burmese expect the elections to affect the military 's control of the country . |