Example sentences of "expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 2 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 3 | But how far can we expect institutions to fulfil the needs of historians in this area ? |
| 4 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 5 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 6 | While chairman and chief executive , Peter Bonfield , said he is still ‘ not seeing the wide green shoots ’ of recovery , he does expect ICL to stay in the black during the coming year . |
| 7 | The letter adds : ‘ In four years ’ time we would expect Middlesbrough to have achieved noticeable progress on the path to sustainable development . |
| 8 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 9 | Further , can we expect states to agree to accept such a system , particularly with compulsory reference to international courts and mandatory application of their decisions , even if there are not sanctions attached to non-adherence ? |
| 10 | And can we expect states to allow non-coercive jural agencies to gather information in an effective manner when this involves the divulgence of state secrets , even if this is seen as the only way to secure confidence in , for instance , disarmament treaties ? |
| 11 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 12 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
| 13 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 14 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 15 | We must expect contractors to take care of all operations ON A project including : — |
| 16 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 17 | Consultation : joint committees are set up where users are given information and can state their opinions , and in the case of differing view , can expect management to explain its reasoning . |
| 18 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
| 19 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
| 20 | B's reply would be taken to mean that he would not completely agree with what A said , and A would probably expect B to go on to explain why he was reluctant to agree . |
| 21 | In requesting , A must ( a ) want B to come now , ( b ) think it possible that B can come , ( c ) think B is not already there , ( d ) think B was not about to come anyway , ( e ) expect that B will respond with an acceptance or rejection , and if B accepts , then A will also expect B to come , ( f ) think that his ( A 's ) asking may be a possible motive for B to come , ( g ) not be , or be pretending not to be , in a position to order B to come 4 . |
| 22 | Last night an executive director of Bond Corp , Peter Lucas , attacked the NAB move : ‘ If that 's the way business can expect bankers to behave , God help Australia . ’ |
| 23 | We would expect Linotype to develop the product along the lines of their traditional high quality typography business and there is no guarantee that the product will remain compatible with its original version . |
| 24 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 25 | I think it was very very important as well for Leicester to get a goal while they 're having a good good spell because er there 's no there 's no doubt I would expect Forest to put a far more sustained pressure on the second half with the wind in their backs . |
| 26 | Do n't expect Pleat to get Luton out of trouble because of his perfectionist approach , but he wo n't be fired because the board and supporters know he 's never had money to spend and had to sell his stars . |
| 27 | Mills does n't expect REM to go on the road until after their 1993 record is released . |
| 28 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 29 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 30 | Can we expect individuals to enjoy equal rights and participation in their social lives and yet work under an authoritarian structure at the workplace that gives them little responsibility and allows them little scope for participation ? |