Example sentences of "they expect [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 2 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 3 | Instead of the evil-looking robber they expected to see , the two ladies found only a pale , thin child , lying peacefully asleep . |
| 4 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 5 | The leaders were to receive wages for their men for six months , and for the rest of the year they were to pay the troops out of the ransoms they expected to take . |
| 6 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 7 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
| 8 | It was only 31 1/4 miles , with a branch of 6 1/4 to Kells , so they expected to finish within the day . |
| 9 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 10 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
| 11 | The intention of the plaintiffs was , to my mind , clear ; they expected to recover the money if they won their action . |
| 12 | DELEGATES to the International Coffee Organisation meeting in London said they expected to begin drawing up a framework within which economic clauses could eventually be reintroduced into the agreement . |
| 13 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
| 14 | They expected to become bishops in due course , and they performed their episcopal duties with equal ability . |
| 15 | The force 's immediate task is to ensure free elections in Nicaragua , and the Nicaraguan delegates said they expected to play ‘ a very positive role ’ . |
| 16 | They expected to make their profit by pushing the price of the shares up , so that they could buy the government bonds for a relatively small number of shares . |
| 17 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 18 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 19 | So were the robbers — they expected to find £2 million . |
| 20 | This finally freed Raybestos to begin production , which they expected to start by the end of the month . |
| 21 | From four hundred members they expected to rise to hundreds of thousands in the coming ‘ death agony of capitalism ’ . |
| 22 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 23 | And the I suppose they expected to whirl round like that and all go into the er the the boxes . |
| 24 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 25 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 26 | As a result of the increase , some banks and building societies said they expected to raise mortgage rates by between 1 and 1.5 per cent , probably from 1 November . |
| 27 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 28 | The disbelief round the table was sudden ; it was the last thing they expected to hear . |
| 29 | Still hopelessly divided , they expected to hear that he had tendered their collective resignations to the King . |
| 30 | In fact they expected to meet with USL chairman Bob Kavner and lay their money on the table the week before Christmas , only to be caught off guard by the Novell announcement . |