Example sentences of "expect [noun] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | DSP seems a particularly important topic since it represents the doorway between the way that people do things and the tasks which they expect electronics to do . |
| 2 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 3 | Not being in loco parentis he can get on with his own job , and expect parents to do theirs . |
| 4 | Defenders gone deep and kept Collimore on side and this is where you expect Stan to do his trick . |
| 5 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 6 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 7 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 8 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 10 | The crowd is entitled to expect Ipswich to do well at home . |
| 11 | For example , although most retail grocery advertising in the UK used to consist of lists of prices , and consumers tended to expect it to do so , it is unrealistic to expect advertising to do the major job of communicating large numbers of prices , especially promotional prices , when this can be done far better by window bills and in-store display : there are few shoppers who analyse every available grocery ad before deciding where to shop . |
| 12 | No , they 're too idle , expecting others to do as they demand ; it 's just not possible . |
| 13 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 14 | ‘ Society expects children to do something most adults would find terrifying — give details of the most intimate obscenities performed on them in front of court officials , the public and the media and often their abusers . |
| 15 | Few people ever expected Sally-Anne to do as she was told . |
| 16 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 17 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |