Example sentences of "they expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Franks were also worried about how ‘ tough ’ Carter appeared — before they toured with the duo they expected Jim Bob and Fruitbat to beat them up . |
| 2 | The four main zaibatsu were more than able to supply the financial needs of the two main political parties , but in return they expected state support to continue . |
| 3 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 4 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 5 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ They expected telecommunications and roads to be modernized within two or three years , but it will take many , many , years . ’ |
| 7 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 8 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 9 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 10 | They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure . |
| 11 | The war now being effectively over , they expected Richard Baxter to return to them . |
| 12 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 13 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 14 | Very often they expect UK PROs to use the same photographs in their own press campaigns . |
| 15 | West will again have Paul Pook at lock , with Peter Robinson in the back row , and they expect winger Dave Cooke to have recovered from an injury he suffered while guesting for Middlesbrough last Saturday . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Management say they expect cargoes to be handled normally pending any national decision by the Transport and General Workers Union . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Why they expect women to surrender theirs , without a pang , I will never know . ’ |
| 21 | UN peacekeepers in Cambodia said they expect Khmer Rouge guerrillas to attack polling stations in the general election starting on May 23rd . |
| 22 | Yet customers walk through an entrance with 24ft stone pillars to reach our bar and they expect prices to be high in such an environment . ’ |
| 23 | That 's how much the hard-up south Londoners need to maintain their cashflow , and they expect Liverpool , Blackburn and Leeds to lead the bidding . |
| 24 | DSP seems a particularly important topic since it represents the doorway between the way that people do things and the tasks which they expect electronics to do . |
| 25 | What is more , they are probably paying for their own lessons , so they expect results . |
| 26 | ( The hypothesis supposes that voters have a short memory : they expect continuity only from the incumbent . ) |
| 27 | Of course , whether people are refused credit because of their probable inability to repay , or whether they do not apply for it because they expect refusal on the same grounds , the results are the same . |
| 28 | A Gallup poll of businessmen has revealed that they expect interest rates to be 1.6 per cent higher under Labour . |
| 29 | On the A four two three , the Kidlington to Banbury road , they expect delays still to go on through much of the evening due to the traffic lights at Bunkers Hill , and on the A four two one , just south of Bicester , the changes to the road layout at the new M forty interchange has made traffic fairly heavy still . |
| 30 | HOT-BLOODED men beating a path to the Liverpool Playhouse for the return of the Raving Beauties are in for a shock if they expect Paula Wilcox to reveal all in the adults only show . |