Example sentences of "expect [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And City experts expect Germany 's Bundesbank to cut its interest rates early in the New Year . |
| 2 | I expect tea 's ready by now . ’ |
| 3 | Miss Timber Topper looks best in the opener and after Richards has had another winner with Pyjamas in the St. Boswell 's Handicap Chase I expect Stephenson 's Jupiter 's Glory to complete a great day for punters . |
| 4 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 5 | As the Caribbean Creoles are all fairly similar to each other , we might have expected Trudgill 's processes of " levelling " and " simplification " to have applied to produce a " British Caribbean Creole " sharing features of all the Caribbean Creoles with significant numbers of speakers in Britain . |
| 6 | She said , ‘ I expect Olly 's sorry now for telling such fearful lies . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect Gillian 's uncle is finding driving through the snow along the country lanes slow work , ’ said Brown Owl . |
| 8 | When the school had started , Robert had expected tobacconist 's sons , monolingual Turks , or youths with swarthy faces and hooked noses , clad in sheets . |
| 9 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 10 | Many forecasters expect France 's economy to grow by only 1.5% in 1991 , down from 4% in both 1988 and 1989 and from an estimated 2.6% last year . |
| 11 | The ending also is unexpected , as you expect Finn + Jim to reach the state they were heading for + live happily ever after . |
| 12 | We expect Clinton 's election victory to consolidate this and deliver 2.5% GNP growth next year . |
| 13 | I mean , how short did Dad expect Roge 's memory to be ? |
| 14 | Expect BT 's application quietly to be dropped once the deal has gone through . |
| 15 | and these and these rents have gone up I expect Nora 's flat has gone up |
| 16 | She had expected Vass 's home to be as coolly functional as his office . |
| 17 | You sometimes expect MPs ' houses to be reeking of power but this was a nice family house with lots of bicycles around the place . |
| 18 | Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance . |
| 19 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
| 20 | It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 21 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |
| 22 | In sum , we would expect Scotland 's share to amount to some 10.66 per cent , the same percentage of UK Government expenditure as currently received by the Scottish Office . |
| 23 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 24 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 25 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 26 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 27 | Should we not therefore expect God 's gifts to have their satanic counterpart ? |
| 28 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |
| 29 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 30 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |