Example sentences of "expect [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 2 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 3 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |
| 4 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
| 5 | We expect inflation to be higher as a result of the pound 's fall , which threatens to erode the initial competitiveness benefit as UK prices rise faster than those elsewhere and the real exchange rate rises again . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , we expect communication to be verbalised , and preferably in English ! |
| 7 | Significantly , the greeting trill is normally done when they are on the move , usually when they have come in from outside and are about to move off towards the place where they expect food to be waiting . |
| 8 | You expect reality to be different from imaginings . ‘ |
| 9 | That 's not at all bad , but expect time to first print to be longer for highly graphical subjects . |
| 10 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 11 | In humid tropical environments , where organic activity is very high and leaching intense , we would expect silica to be removed in solution as silicic acid : |
| 12 | With the low volume of piston-powered traffic one would expect fuel to be expensive — and it is : 70–75 pence per litre . |
| 13 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 14 | If some unit larger than the grapheme is used , such as a ( vowel + consonant ) unit , one might expect gead to be pronounced to rhyme with bread , because the most common pronunciation for — ead is the one used for bread . |
| 15 | Under a Labour government we might expect television to be somewhat more favourable to the Labour Party . |
| 16 | You did n't expect Uncle to be in it … |
| 17 | However , in a special supplement on the impact of the Gulf crisis , published in September 1990 , the IMF suggested that if the price of oil stabilized at $25 a barrel , the industrialized countries could expect growth to be cut by a further 0.25 per cent to 2.5 per cent for 1990 . |
| 18 | Flat rate farmers will not be required to keep detailed records , but Customs would expect paperwork to be available if a check of transactions became necessary . |
| 19 | The estimate for the two albums is £150,000–200,000 , and one might expect interest to be shown by an Italian State collection such as the Museo degli Argenti in Florence . |
| 20 | Mrs Pember Reeves noted that the Lambeth housewives she visited ‘ seemed to expect judgement to be passed on the absent man according to the amount he allowed them . ’ |
| 21 | The point is that financial management in the 1990s requires librarians ( and all other service managers ) to provide a justification for funding bids , rather than to expect money to be granted as of right . |
| 22 | It is inappropriate to act as though consensus exists ( or should exist ) over good practice , and doubly inappropriate to expect conformity to a particular version of it . |
| 23 | It is usual for the file to be arranged in ascending key sequence , and for the file creation software to expect input to the file to be physically in this order ( on initial creation ) or logically in this order ( when a file with overflow records is reorganized ) . |
| 24 | Had she been expecting Naylor to be stuck for words or , now that the moment of carrying out the plan he had put to her had arrived , ducking it , then she was disappointed on both counts . |
| 25 | Rogers ' experience of American family life in the early part of the century was of a cohesive group exerting a powerful religious influence over its members ( with a taboo on dancing , playing cards , drinking , smoking , etc. ) , as well as expecting commitment to family demands ( coming straight home from school ) and fulfilment of family expectations ( gaining entry to the University of Wisconsin ) . |
| 26 | But Benny had not grown up expecting life to be totally perfect . |
| 27 | Well , I never expected sampling to be part of it all . |
| 28 | When children die , allegedly at the hands of parents or those responsible for their care , society expects responsibility to be allocated , and penalties paid . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects TASM to be in service ; and where they will be based . |
| 30 | One expects durability to be a hallmark of highly specific assets . |