Example sentences of "they expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , it could be very profitable : PR firms set an inflated value on their own services , and they expected others to do the same . |
| 2 | ‘ They expected telecommunications and roads to be modernized within two or three years , but it will take many , many , years . ’ |
| 3 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 4 | They expected diamonds to have a single atomic structure . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Management say they expect cargoes to be handled normally pending any national decision by the Transport and General Workers Union . |
| 8 | ‘ Why they expect women to surrender theirs , without a pang , I will never know . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | What is more , they are probably paying for their own lessons , so they expect results . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 13 | A staggering 52% — mostly females — said they expect rates to be higher in 12 months ' time with a consequent knock-on effect on mortgages . |