Example sentences of "expect people [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aiming at 70 Implementor sales for 1993 , Hugh McCartney , the company 's managing director said that 75% of business will still come from people developing applications for the AS/400 : ‘ We expect people to migrate in two to three years . |
| 2 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 3 | But I still ex I still out of courtesy expect people to phone but may be I 'm old fashioned . |
| 4 | I expect people to regard this as my house and not to abuse my privacy . |
| 5 | I would then emerge , beaming , and expect people to warm instantly to me . |
| 6 | We expect people to pay their debts . |
| 7 | Most career jobs expect people to work more than nine-to-five hours , to travel abroad or move house if necessary , maybe to attend conferences at weekends or socialise in the evenings ; in short , to put work before family . |
| 8 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 9 | How do they expect people to visit ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 11 | ‘ How can you expect people to take you seriously , if you do n't have any convictions about anything ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 13 | We would , of course , expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written . |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |
| 15 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't see how you can expect people to follow your lead , to trust you , to commit themselves to the business unless they believe that all of these things are dear to your heart . ’ |
| 17 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 18 | But be warned — he 's an unashamed surrealist and does n't expect people to understand his paintings now any more than they did then . |
| 19 | But how you can expect people to become more sociable by just being , you know , shut behind closed walls , and and not having to actually , fend for themselves and cope with life outside prison walls . |
| 20 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 21 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 22 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
| 23 | But to expect people to live reasonably is like asking them to live on paregoric . ’ |
| 24 | It is ridiculous to expect people to put on hard hats to walk through the countryside . |
| 25 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 26 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 27 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 28 | So , this is , this is just one week , are you expecting people to continue after they 've er , they 've sampled the delights of , of the low alcohol ? |
| 29 | Was it too much expecting people to watch three times a week ? |
| 30 | Expecting people to know it 's wrong to mug old ladies does n't seem unreasonable to me , but I 'm just a copper . |