Example sentences of "[pron] expect the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week . |
| 2 | As the economy recovers and the unfavourable short-term effects of the fall in the exchange rate feed through , I expect the deficit to widen this year to £17.5 billion . ’ |
| 3 | One client even received a letter from Harvard Securities saying of Towerbell : " I expect the price to rise to higher levels and will advise further " . |
| 4 | I expect the team to look like this : - |
| 5 | ‘ Nevertheless , conditions in certain markets of importance to Volex give grounds for optimism and I expect the Group to make further progress in the current year . ’ |
| 6 | You should tell him what you expect the equipment to do and the duty cycle or period involved . |
| 7 | You expect the bank to get it right . |
| 8 | You expect the servants to nick the silver , not the guests . ’ |
| 9 | You expect the attendants to look like Peter Cushing . |
| 10 | This is a meandering , innocent instrumental structured so that , at any moment , you expect the vocals to drop in and the ‘ song ’ -proper to begin , but you know it never needs to . |
| 11 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 12 | As a physical description , we expect the passage to contain a large number of physical , concrete nouns ( stakes , bamboo , fences , fishermen , ruins , etc ) but what is more striking is that these concrete nouns are matched by nouns which are more abstract in one way or another . |
| 13 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 14 | In such cases we expect the duration to increase if the intervention is being effective . |
| 15 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , through his energy and skill , he has now given a powerful send-off to the new United Nations and its new Secretary-General in the very complex and difficult tasks that we expect the UN to have to face in the post-cold-war world ? |
| 16 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 17 | Organisations have many different objectives and engage in a variety of activities , so there is a problem in defining an initial perspective on organisation theory and what we expect the theory to cover . |
| 18 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 19 | In return , we expect the industry to fight for its share of the electricity market by improved productivity . |
| 20 | They expect the lecturer to fill both mind and notebook with undeniable facts , which can then be regurgitated at examinations in a depraved and bowdlerised state . |
| 21 | With all the results now known for the elections to the General Synod of the Church of England , supporters say they expect the Church to agree to the ordination of women in the next few years . |
| 22 | International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates . |
| 23 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 24 | Moreover they expect the commission to push for a more careful approach in other areas , in particular : |
| 25 | They expect the pound to drop two pfennigs from last night 's close of Dm2.84 if Labour is in power . |