Example sentences of "expect [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management say they expect cargoes to be handled normally pending any national decision by the Transport and General Workers Union . |
| 2 | Fundamentalists believe so totally in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that they expect lives to be touched and changed . |
| 3 | We expect surgeries to be open certain hours , and for you to undertake certain preventative health measures for all your patients whether they normally come to the surgery or not . |
| 4 | As an author , I expect reviewers to be honest and objective . |
| 5 | Worst affected is your love life , so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice . |
| 6 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 7 | A staggering 52% — mostly females — said they expect rates to be higher in 12 months ' time with a consequent knock-on effect on mortgages . |
| 8 | Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’ |
| 9 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 10 | Buyers expect salespeople to be business-like in their personal appearance and behaviour . |
| 11 | We all expect others to be like ourselves . |
| 12 | Most clinics treating fertility problems expect nurses to be the counsellor . |
| 13 | ‘ People expect women to be highly emotional . |
| 14 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 15 | WHEN we cast our votes at election time , we do n't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue but we do expect honesty and integrity — traits completely lacking in this discredited Government . |
| 16 | This view is hedged about with reservations — and indeed few parents who know both their children 's capacities and their teachers ' helpfulness will expect schools to be measured entirely in this way . |
| 17 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 18 | We would expect regulations to be drawn up under those headings in the hope that the privatised companies would be obliged to act upon them . |
| 19 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't expect things to be just good when you do them , however . |
| 21 | They do n't expect things to be done perfectly . |
| 22 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |
| 23 | This seems unlikely , however , because one might expect females to be just as much in need of protection as males . |
| 24 | You do n't expect players to be warned for excessive aggression at this level , but they were , and the first to be admonished was an old hand at listening to finger pointing lectures . |
| 25 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 26 | Japanese firms have enjoyed faster growth than American ones , so , on this basis , you would expect dividends to be lower . |
| 27 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 28 | You move into the south which is the area where landlord exploitation might have been at its most intense , where you would expect antagonisms to be greatest , where one would expect that peasants would be actually demanding land reform and , and indeed if you , you go back to , to the you 've clearly got that almost spontaneous underlying radicalism because of the , the intense landlord exploitation . |
| 29 | The limitations of this role are considerable , and such people can hardly expect others to be receptive , forthcoming and responsive towards them . |
| 30 | It is too much to expect musicians to deliberately cast aside the fringe benefits of success . |