Example sentences of "expect [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurers expect storm battering |
| 2 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 3 | For 1993 we expect development expenditure to be approximately £150 million less and within this budget we are planning to devote significant funds to our UK offshore projects in Morecambe Bay . |
| 4 | Estimates vary widely but by 1995 many industry analysts expect HDTV hardware and programming to be worth many billions of pounds . |
| 5 | Do not expect too much from the new states ; expect compassion fatigue from the rest of the world . |
| 6 | UN peacekeepers in Cambodia said they expect Khmer Rouge guerrillas to attack polling stations in the general election starting on May 23rd . |
| 7 | SG Warburgs expect manufacturing output to have fallen about 0.5 per cent on the month . |
| 8 | Expect Draft Local Plan to be deposited during Jan/Feb 93 . |
| 9 | Very few of them believe there is any magic ( if ever there was ) in the business and almost all of them want to understand the process and expect executive search consultants to provide that knowledge . |
| 10 | If there is a new vibe — a reiteration of yesterday 's values attuned to today 's desires , erupting into the voids that the synthetic world of vinyl and plastic just ca n't fill — then expect Stone Grove to be up there , recycling nothing but what was once called soul . |
| 11 | LARGE investors expect London share prices to fall still further , some by as much as 20 per cent , after yesterday 's sharp drop on the stock market . |
| 12 | The Economist Intelligence Unit concluded in its World Commodity Outlook 1989 : ‘ Short of climatic intervention — to which tea is less vulnerable than most other major crops — a continuation of the downtrend seems unavoidable : we expect London auction prices to average £1/kg , or even less , in 1989 . ’ |
| 13 | Most forecasters still expect GNP growth of 3–3.5% this year , down from an estimated 4.6% in 1990 . |
| 14 | I expect Alice Fell — the real one — thought him a pompous busybody , but she was probably used to being ordered about by ‘ men of ardent humanity ’ . ) |
| 15 | We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 . |
| 16 | It would have been too much of a coincidence to have expected Tony Cable to be the engineering investigator at the top of the go-team list since he had worked in Seattle for the Boeing Company before he joined AIB ( the ‘ Branch ’ , as it is known by its members ) and his personal knowledge of that company 's products is obviously substantial . |
| 17 | Neither semantics nor logic requires V P structure , a priori , that is there 's no particular reason why you 'd expect verb phrase structuring in particular from either of those two enterprises , because either could get by with er either the flat structure Florence teased Dougal , that 's the structure in T three three separate constituents , or teased Florence Dougal where teased is one constituent and Florence Dougal is another which is the way we most standardly do it calculus and that works fine . |
| 18 | You can expect 24–hour room service served up on time and with the minimum of fuss . |
| 19 | With a Basis Loan our proportion of the equity is normally 10–20% — and Barclays will not expect board representation . |
| 20 | As the action of an LCR is postulated to be mediated by a variety of transacting factors interacting with promoter/enhancer type sequences , with subsequent effects on chromatin domains ( 25 , and references therein ) ; we would expect chromatin structure analysis ( DH sites ) to be of particular use in localising regions of regulatory interest . |
| 21 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 22 | We might therefore expect B's utterance to be interpreted as a non-co-operative response , a brushing aside of A's concerns with a change of topic . |
| 23 | BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish warned the rest of his expensive stars last night they ca n't always expect £3.3million striker Alan Shearer to save them with one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 24 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
| 25 | Do n't expect Schedule Express to go into the fine details of resource management . |
| 26 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 27 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 28 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 29 | Lawson says do not expect EMS news |
| 30 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |