Example sentences of "expect [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece and Spain expect emissions to rise by at least 25 per cent and Portugal is expecting rise of between 29-39 per cent , depending on economic growth . |
| 2 | Would we , for example , expect adaptors to feel better when working on projects in the Q4 area , and innovators in the Q1 area ( Kirton , 1976 ) ? |
| 3 | Now we expect operators to identify the root cause and make the problem go away themselves , ’ said factory systems manager . |
| 4 | We expect candidates to communicate effectively — but will not be looking for perfect Business English . |
| 5 | By the third day I expect third-years to work alone , and if you slip up , gal , I 'll have your guts for garters ! |
| 6 | … we expect books to generate ideas for exploration , we try to choose books that will challenge and ask questions of our brightest children and yet provide an accessible experience for the weakest . |
| 7 | Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens . |
| 8 | Just like other Orcs , Savage Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens . |
| 9 | ‘ Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one . |
| 10 | On the whole we expect opportunities to start paying off very quickly . |
| 11 | Not being in loco parentis he can get on with his own job , and expect parents to do theirs . |
| 12 | How does my hon. and learned Friend expect Palestinians to feel that they will get a fair crack of the whip while they are subjected to those double standards ? |
| 13 | But that is precisely what happens when we expect plants to live and thrive , not as nature intended , but on chemical fertilizers . |
| 14 | This is approaching the temperature below which theoreticians expect atoms to fuse together in a new kind of matter . |
| 15 | We expect planes to take off on time . |
| 16 | They had expected game-birds to benefit from an increased food supply of insects as farmers stopped spraying pesticides to protect their cereal crops . |
| 17 | He had not expected things to go like this . |
| 18 | And now every time I see an advert , or just anything , I expect things to explode . ’ |
| 19 | Expect things to go wrong a lot of the time . |
| 20 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 21 | As one senior manager said : ‘ Employees now expect managers to take decisions on a commercial basis and recognize that their interests as employees — and in many cases shareholders — demand it . |
| 22 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 23 | Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly . |
| 24 | Brokers Peter Joseph of Smith New Court and Paul Heath of UBS Phillips & Drew both expect profits to rise to £125m this time . |
| 25 | The conclusion that we have drawn from these observations , which is supported by independent experimental evidence to be discussed below , is that although people expect ellipses to take their meanings from the preceding text , they do not derive that meaning solely from a representation of the superficial features of the preceding text . |
| 26 | Dictionary authors expect users to perform regular morphological processing themselves . |
| 27 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 28 | We expect prices to start rising in the late summer or autumn . ’ |
| 29 | Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount . |
| 30 | If people expect prices to rise , they may reduce their money balances and purchase goods and assets now , before prices do rise . |