Example sentences of "expect [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 2 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 3 | It 's expected 30,000 people will use this pub over the weekend . |
| 4 | ‘ Young men expect 12,000 rupees ( $750 ) , including a television . |
| 5 | I expect six hours |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure the All Blacks expect six games against Welsh clubs culminating in an international at the Arms Park to be a hard tour . |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH expect 10,000 season ticket holders to back their Premier League campaign . |
| 8 | Woking expect 4,000 fans to travel to what should be Brighton 's biggest gate of the season . |
| 9 | His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) . |
| 10 | We had expected 25 years at the most . |
| 11 | Tension is also created when we expect one thing , and something else , quite different , occurs . |
| 12 | But expect five days of fast , highly tactical racing between Brussels and Mulhouse . |
| 13 | It is interesting that in his later years Wordsworth regarded himself as a statesman as much as a poet ; he certainly annoyed his womenfolk by talking politics incessantly with Robert Southey , though one might have expected two writers to bore the company with literary theory . |
| 14 | The singer , best known for the classic Great Balls Of Fire , was expected two days ago but was said to be furious at taking second billing in the Giants of Rock 'n' Roll concerts . |
| 15 | The organisers expect 500,000 spectators to line the route from Blackheath to Westminster Bridge . |
| 16 | So expect two years of dull , decent , gritty competence , explain the Major-domos — and steady , unspectacular results . |
| 17 | This year 's five-day fair is the biggest so far , with 8,189 exhibitors from 93 countries ; the organisers expect 220,000 visitors . |
| 18 | We should not expect three classes of behaviour corresponding to the three processes of adaptation . |
| 19 | You ca n't expect one person to satisfy all your needs . ’ |
| 20 | In time-dependent form therefore we may expect one relation between the deviatoric stresses and strains and another , independent one between the dilatational parts . |
| 21 | That is to say , for 100 feet of water one could only expect 240 feet of sediment of normal density . |
| 22 | Yet it is also unrealistic to expect one hour of teaching time per week to be sufficient to cover the information required for good patient care . |
| 23 | It is a question of fact in every case whether the number of people affected will constitute ‘ a class of Her Majesty 's subjects ’ , but Lord Denning provides some guidance , saying ‘ A public nuisance is a nuisance which is so widespread in range and so indiscriminate in its effect that it would not be reasonable to expect one person to take proceedings on his own responsibility to put a stop to it , but that it would be the responsibility of the community at large ’ . |
| 24 | Finally , there is the type of public nuisance arising out of private nuisance which affects a sufficiently large number of people that it would not be reasonable to expect one person to take proceedings on his own responsibility : see Denning L.J . |
| 25 | It is not reasonable to expect one person to be solely responsible for fundraising , campaigning or recruitment work . |
| 26 | While it was unrealistic to expect one practitioner , with such limited practice , to make a significant difference to the workload of the department , it was possible to identify patients whose waiting time had been shortened because they were able to see an ENP . |
| 27 | It is unrealistic to expect one side or other to put forward a constructive proposal that is immediately acceptable to the other side . |
| 28 | We are expecting 120 kids — Praise God ! ! |
| 29 | The implication that ‘ easy money ’ was made available to some fundholders was reinforced by reports in January 1992 that some were expecting six figure savings from their hospital treatment budgets by the end of the financial year . |
| 30 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |