Example sentences of "expect [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
2 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
3 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
4 | During a visit on Nov. 8-10 by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger , Qian Qichen on Nov. 8 reiterated that China expected the US government to take the initiative in restoring good bilateral relations . |
5 | The IMF said in its April 1991 forecast that it expected the US economy to shrink by 0.1 per cent in 1991 , before making a full recovery to 2.8 per cent growth in 1992 . |
6 | BRITISH officials said yesterday that the German Chancellor , Helmut Kohl , wanted to put pressure on Britain and Denmark to ratify the Maastricht treaty , but added that Britain expected the EC to press ahead with 12 , members not 10 . |
7 | Whatever the intended meaning of those words , there is strong evidence in the New Testament that many of the early Christians expected the Lord 's return at any moment . |
8 | But Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , said yesterday on a visit to Turkey that he expected the Geneva talks to resume in two weeks . |
9 | If 58 per cent expected the USSR rather than the United States ( 21 per cent ) to be the guilty party , only 40 per cent approved of American policy and 35 per cent were critical . |
10 | ‘ But if one of our lads had done something similar , I would have expected the Manchester City players to respond in the same way . |
11 | As expected the CU has strengthened the manufactured trade balance of West Germany ( D ) . |
12 | It 's expected the Williams line-up will be made known next week . |
13 | I would have expected the DoH to present its own views on the legal use of restraint rather than allow regional variations to develop , ’ said Levy . |
14 | When the dark-blues did turn up the fun started but as expected the Cambridge crew were carrying far more weight . |
15 | And they are concerned that the media and the public will take the proposals floated in the paper as cast iron and expect the APB to implement them all . |
16 | Expect the UK to succumb in the same way , then watch the band set their sights on America . |
17 | Other hidden subsidies , VAT evasion and illegal practices , are all areas where British carpet manufacturers expect the UK authorities to redouble their efforts . |
18 | Observers expect the Santa Cruz Operation to announce a profit for its first quarter shortly : the market is expected to want the company to prove it can be profitable for one further quarter through to March — without Larry Michels — before issuing an initial public offering next April with the aim of going public in June . |
19 | Most people expect the PLA to intervene more openly in the next political crisis , but not necessarily in a unified manner . |
20 | I expect the Concorde drivers will probably be quite pleased to have some company up here . ’ |
21 | We therefore expect the Tunguska fireball to have reached a height above its airburst altitude appropriate to a nuclear surface burst . |
22 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , through his energy and skill , he has now given a powerful send-off to the new United Nations and its new Secretary-General in the very complex and difficult tasks that we expect the UN to have to face in the post-cold-war world ? |
23 | Expect a Tendulkar fan club to form quickly . |
24 | By the turn of the century , to borrow from DEC 's Alpha phrase book , the pair expect a Sparc to have 100m transistors , operating at clock speeds approaching a billion cycles and deliver two billion instructions a second . |
25 | We then expect a Pre-Inquiry meeting will be held by the Secretary of State sometime in September and that a Local Public Inquiry will take place either before or just after Christmas . |
26 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT port ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
27 | And in 1994 , expect an IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Corp Windows NT version ‘ when NT has settled down a little bit , ’ says Schuster . |
28 | Do you expect the Skoda Favorit ( a recently-introduced model — ed ) to be exported in large numbers ? |
29 | It is , however , pro-Scottish and when the Labour Party has a tiff with its Unionist bed-fellows in the Tory Party it should not expect the SNP 's automatic support . |
30 | On Oct. 24 , 1990 , Attali said that he did not expect the EBRD , which had capitalization of ECU10,000 million ( US$12,400 million ) , to make a profit until 1992 . |