Example sentences of "expect [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 2 | Expect whoops of absurd self-congratulation if they do . |
| 3 | Management say they expect cargoes to be handled normally pending any national decision by the Transport and General Workers Union . |
| 4 | Had Voltaire used such a title as The Nature of Prejudice , his readers may have expected criticisms of clerics . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sotheby 's confidently expect bids of over $10 million ( £6.6 million ) . |
| 7 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As an author , I expect reviewers to be honest and objective . |
| 10 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 11 | Worst affected is your love life , so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice . |
| 12 | It looks like its got a few tricks up its sleeve about Solaris-on-Intel as well : expect announcements of some OEMs . |
| 13 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 14 | A staggering 52% — mostly females — said they expect rates to be higher in 12 months ' time with a consequent knock-on effect on mortgages . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Expect prices in the £8,000 to £11,000 bracket when it reaches the British market in June . |
| 17 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 18 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 19 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 20 | Buyers expect salespeople to be business-like in their personal appearance and behaviour . |
| 21 | We all expect others to be like ourselves . |
| 22 | Most clinics treating fertility problems expect nurses to be the counsellor . |
| 23 | ‘ People expect women to be highly emotional . |
| 24 | Perhaps I had naively expected headlines of the HUMPHRY DAVY INVENTS MINERS ' SAFETY LAMP , ROSSINI WRITES FIRST OPERA , HENRY THOREAU BORN , kind of thing ! |
| 25 | Expect events in the coming week to cost you money , stretch your patience and strain your brain ! |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 27 | Never would he have expected encounters with an assault force of Chelonians and the galaxy 's most notorious criminal in the space of a day . |
| 28 | Further , we can expect interactions between pure deictic M-tense concepts and cultural divisions and measures of time to show up in L-tenses . |
| 29 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 30 | But they will expect rewards for their loyalty later , which augurs badly for forthcoming debates on both the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , which many liberals oppose , and on welfare reform . |