Example sentences of "we [be] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are expecting nobody , ’ I hear someone say , but the silhouette at the door , like an exclamation mark at the end of a command , demands attention . |
| 2 | In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect . |
| 3 | We are expecting much more of patients than in the past . |
| 4 | We are expecting 120 kids — Praise God ! ! |
| 5 | ‘ We are expecting things to pick up generally , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Spokesman Tim Naylor said : ‘ We are expecting a lot of interest in the car . |
| 7 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 8 | Clearly , if we are expecting our advertising to work in a particular way , against a particular sub-group of consumers , we should do our research in such a way that it will show up this sort of effect . |
| 9 | If we are expecting a good level of practice from proprietors , whether private proprietors or statutory , then we have not to expect them to be out of pocket at the end of the day as a result . |
| 10 | We are expecting in excess of 10,000 redundancies , which will be spread over three years . |
| 11 | We are expecting that the British economy next year should grow in line with the G7 average . |
| 12 | All we are expecting at this stage is modest growth in this half year . |
| 13 | We are expecting exports to rise by 6 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ We are expecting 30- plus cars from across the water , including a couple of Aston Martin Ulsters and a Ford TT Special . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There can be wicket variations and other factors , but we are expecting to do well in Dublin , ’ he said . |
| 16 | We are expecting the locals from Backnong back to Chelmsford in the middle of November . |
| 17 | We heard what Mr er Davis had to say this morning , and at at one point was very very important , we are expecting to be in possession of reports on the greenbelt local enquiry and your report er round about the same time , and indeed since they they are in control of proceedings thereafter they are in a position to make sure that they do n't have to reach decisions on one until they are in possession of the other . |
| 18 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 19 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 20 | Erm well that base budget is rather higher than we are expecting and the time when , the policy committee set its targets for each of the service committees . |
| 21 | ‘ I was n't in Belfast for the second leg but from what I saw on television they gave Tbilisi a lot of problems and that 's what we are expecting next week . |
| 22 | ‘ We are expecting doctors to review the situation at some stage today . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We are expecting to record our millionth Fast-tag customer within the next few weeks , ’ said Jeremy Herbert for Merseytravel . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've had three months of investigation and it 's important that we now look forward to next year 's National when we are expecting large crowds . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Even though we are expecting an inflationary increase of 1.9 per cent , our costs have gone up by between 6 per cent and 7 percent . |
| 26 | ‘ We are expecting about 300 people at the supporters ’ club after the funeral because Dennis was such a character and everybody who went on away matches knew him . ’ |
| 27 | Arnold Wilcox-Wood , manager of Clayton Square , says : ‘ We are expecting a high response to this year 's award . |
| 28 | Two new stores have opened already and we are expecting to achieve stronger results in all area . |
| 29 | We are to expect you to keep quiet ? |
| 30 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |