Example sentences of "expect [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS the biggest Whitehall shake-up in two decades gets under way , there is firm evidence that the civil service expected Labour to win the election . |
| 2 | She did n't turn round : she expected Ace to follow , and a few moments later she heard running footsteps behind her . |
| 3 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 4 | If he expected this to frighten Sir John he succeeded . |
| 5 | We expect that to continue as long as necessary . |
| 6 | We expect that to happen in the autumn . ’ |
| 7 | We expect that to have a substantial effect . ’ |
| 8 | When Daak had been brought to join them , Bernice had expected Ace to run to him ; instead , she just smiled crookedly and raised a hand in greeting . |
| 9 | However , it is not obvious whether the respondents expect this to happen to them specifically or if it is a population level observation . |
| 10 | The Asia and Pacific Group has prioritised Cambodia for their major campaigning work , and expect this to continue throughout at least 1991 and 1992 . |
| 11 | Who would have expected this to happen ? ’ |
| 12 | The Doctor had expected this to provoke some reaction but the Chelonians remained resolutely silent , their eyes fixed on the big screen that showed a trundling view of their journey through the wastes . |
| 13 | Two and a half months of a ‘ non-campaign ’ had changed nothing , and few expect much to change after the election either . |
| 14 | Analysts expect these to include a £12 million provision for Channel tunnel losses taken by Costain in its role as one of the members of the Transmanche Link construction consortium . |
| 15 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 16 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 17 | I think it would skip to environment being the prerogative of local authorities , there will be a great variation across the country , and I do n't think anybody seriously would expect that to happen about health and safety at work , and I think the same should be true of the environment . |
| 18 | So , I would expect that to continue and expect erm , revenue to get ahead of last year . |
| 19 | Well I think it 'll probably , in Shropshire terms , largely follow on the existing body , in which there are two County Council representatives on the existing R D T , and I would expect that to continue . |
| 20 | Do n't expect that to continue by the way . |
| 21 | And you , you 'd expect that to produce a severe superego ? |
| 22 | They do n't really expect Labour to make things any better . |
| 23 | If electrons are sent through the slits one at a time , one would expect each to pass through one slit or the other , and so behave just as if the slit it passed through were the only one there — giving a uniform distribution on the screen . |
| 24 | ‘ Did you expect this to happen ? ’ she said , as Lucy took small hard bites . |
| 25 | I would n't expect this to happen in a capitalist country so why expect anything different from the USSR ? |
| 26 | If Protestantism was more Conducive than Catholicism to the expansion of science , one would expect this to manifest itself in a greater receptivity toward new and controversial ideas . |
| 27 | On June 10 OPEC 's Secretary-General Subroto said in Madrid that the resumption of Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil exports would be co-ordinated by the organization , which did not expect this to affect the stabilization of prices later in 1991 . |
| 28 | One might expect this to include advisory visits , aid with the development of study skills and so on , and to some extent this does happen . |
| 29 | You would expect this to shock her , and it does . |
| 30 | And how do you expect this to change by the end of the century ? |