Example sentences of "that they expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 2 | The monks of the Middle Ages used to practise ‘ divine reading ’ , which meant that they expected their lives to be transformed as a result of what they read . |
| 3 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 4 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 5 | A large , excellent doctors ' practice proceeded — how many doctors did the same ? — and made a claim for the reimbursement that they expected . |
| 6 | Now they were making it clear that they expected more from her : " If I had done reasonably well , they would say that I should have done better , and if I had done badly , they would ask , " What 's wrong with you ? " " |
| 7 | Bush said , however , that he would use his executive discretion to modify or suspend US sanctions when two more of the five conditions were met ; administration officials said that they expected the freeing of political prisoners and the lifting of the state of emergency in Natal to be regarded as adequate moves . |
| 8 | On Nov. 27 a meeting of Western donor countries held in Paris under World Bank auspices deferred for six months a decision on 1992 aid , stating that they expected Moi 's government to open up the political system and to end human rights abuses and high-level corruption . |
| 9 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 10 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A Gallup poll of businessmen has revealed that they expect interest rates to be 1.6 per cent higher under Labour . |
| 13 | His argument was that they expect to be certain , and therefore interpret any doubt as evidence of unbelief : |
| 14 | ‘ All the independent analysts are now backing their words with money that they expect a gentle recovery to take root next year . ’ |
| 15 | Some children may be prepared to chew on finger foods like toast or biscuits but a lump in a spoonful of food that they expect to be mushy can upset them . |
| 16 | DEC and Microsoft said that they expect NT-on-Alpha , which they are jointly engineering , to be a high-volume , multi-sourced platform for users , software developers , systems designers and chip manufacturers — exactly the same thing ACE was supposed to be . |
| 17 | But nevertheless that 's human nature and perhaps it 's also a reason why life should not stand still , whatever progress we make both in housing and in quality of housing and the quality of life , once people are used to that , to that they expect more and this is what progress , what forward thinking is all about . |
| 18 | Interestingly , Cole ( 1979 , 238 ) suggests that the low rates of Japanese satisfaction are due to the fact that they expect more from work than other nationalities ! |
| 19 | Many other countries have announced that they expect to proceed towards democratic elections in the coming year — Angola , Cameroon , Kenya , Liberia , Madagascar , Nigeria , Seychelles and Sierra Leone . |
| 20 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 21 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 22 | region in terms of the general business conditions , or the second most optimistic so it 's not entirely surprising that they now say that they expect to invest on the back of the strength of that optimism . |