Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] expect [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An employee in a functional department might expect to receive directions/commands from a project coordinator as well as from the departmental head — ie. there may be dual command . |
| 2 | Since — outside the public sector , or some industry-wide schemes — only Britain offers ‘ portable ’ pensions , carried by employees from job to job , British pension funds can expect to win recruits from other countries . |
| 3 | The first , inadequately expressed as ‘ subsidiarity ’ in the Maastricht treaty , is that the Community should expect to exercise power only where flows of things or people across frontiers make such power truly necessary . |
| 4 | We can make a pretty fair guess as to how much the ship 's crew were paid on such a trip as this : a surviving Schedule ‘ A ’ Crew Agreement for the same ship four years later reveals that a seaman could expect to earn £2 per month , the cook and steward slightly more , the carpenter £5 10s. , and the first and second mates £6 and £4 10s. respectively . |
| 5 | As has been mentioned ( Chapter 3 , 3.3.1 ) , because management knows the business ( some of them will usually have operated it at board level ) , the vendors may expect to provide Newco with less warranty and indemnity protection than on an " arm's-length " sale . |
| 6 | If there is regression towards the mean ( see below ) , an individual with high earnings may expect to have children with a lower earning capacity , and hence share his own higher earnings by making bequests . |
| 7 | Investors should expect to shoulder responsibility for any damage or injury arising after privatisation , and demarcation disputes were likely over liabilities from the past , he said . |
| 8 | The successful diplomate should expect to find employment in a range of areas , as a commercial programmer , small systems manager , business analyst or database administrator/programmer . |
| 9 | Brand A makes no claim on the amount of weight loss because each individual is different , most people can expect to lose weight . |
| 10 | For instance , a man may expect to have Saturdays to be off fishing with his mates . |
| 11 | Holders of the Diploma may expect to obtain exemption from various parts of the examinations of the professional bodies , the Institute of Statisticians and the British Computer Society . |
| 12 | But in the 1340s Edward sought to exploit the growing opposition within France to Philip VI by deploying two or three armies at the same time in provinces where the English cause might expect to receive support . |
| 13 | Our brains are probably equipped by nature to assess the risks of things happening to ourselves , or to a few hundred people in the small circle of villages within drum-range that our tribal ancestors could expect to hear news about . |
| 14 | Obviously , a bank will expect to receive loan interest plus , perhaps , a royalty on subsequent oil output for the additional risk incurred , although the latter might be reduced by obtaining agreements which contractually guarantee a market for resultant oil output . |