Example sentences of "[pron] expect [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 2 | I expected this place to be in chaos — instead , it 's an oasis of calm . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect underlying inflation to be 3.75 per cent at the end of this year , close to the top of its target range . |
| 4 | I expect next week to be your last chance to register before the shut-off date . |
| 5 | Words to be underlined are " bracketed " with ∘S The program produces an output file suitable for a printer which expects such words to be bracketed by ∘Y . |
| 6 | Obviously cold injury is far more common when would you expect cold injury to be common ? |
| 7 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 8 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 9 | Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one . |
| 10 | We expect this exhibition to be of particular interest to sports administrators and physiotherapists . |
| 11 | We expect sponsored MPs to be present at important votes , and particularly on these occasions when our members are likely to be infect affected . |
| 12 | One expects military sculpture to be massive and crude , and this is very true of a Hercules scene from Corbridge from the Chapel of the Standards in the western principia ( Site xiv ) . |
| 13 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 14 | And last night top U.S. military commander General Colin Powell said he expected Western jets to be enforcing the zone within two weeks . |
| 15 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 16 | If he expects immediate reaction to this suggestion his child is contaminating his adult . |
| 17 | He expects direct payments to be some £250m for 1993 , while a further £250m will go on the pension fund for early leavers . |
| 18 | And by the end of the year , it expects further sites to be fully operational in Spain and Italy . |
| 19 | It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases . |