Example sentences of "we expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expected handshakes all round , the departure of the PM to affairs of state , and an aide leading us to an ante-room for ginger snaps and coffee . |
| 2 | ‘ We expected players would serve to Jimmy 's forehand ’ , explains Segura ‘ not his strong two fisted backhand . |
| 3 | We expected sabotage from the Labour extremists and hired two 100,000 watt generators in case the electrical sub-station was cut off . |
| 4 | We expected people to just come and go , but most did n't — they had a great get together . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 6 | We expected Michael Foot , Roy Jenkins and Tony Wedgwood Benn to stand , but when Denis Healey and Tony Crosland also announced they were candidates , my team calculated that I would lose a number of votes to them , for the three of us were close in our thinking and attitudes . |
| 7 | Still , we were hopeful of the future of the still young department , when the decision was made to seek CNAA validation for the courses offered by the College , and we prepared to rewrite ours to take account of our experience , and to justify our intentions more fully than we had had to do before to critics from whom we expected scepticism rather than sympathy . |
| 8 | We expect inflation to be higher as a result of the pound 's fall , which threatens to erode the initial competitiveness benefit as UK prices rise faster than those elsewhere and the real exchange rate rises again . |
| 9 | ‘ We expect EDS will take part in its future development and hope they can help in bringing down its processing costs , ’ Hjoth concluded . |
| 10 | We expect products that sell to go on selling . |
| 11 | The Economist Intelligence Unit concluded in its World Commodity Outlook 1989 : ‘ Short of climatic intervention — to which tea is less vulnerable than most other major crops — a continuation of the downtrend seems unavoidable : we expect London auction prices to average £1/kg , or even less , in 1989 . ’ |
| 12 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 13 | Within the European time zone we expect competition to intensify with the creation of a single EC capital market and the possible advent of a single currency , the ECU . |
| 14 | For 1993 we expect development expenditure to be approximately £150 million less and within this budget we are planning to devote significant funds to our UK offshore projects in Morecambe Bay . |
| 15 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 16 | But we expect Alex Ferguson to try again for-Stuart Pearce at Forest , perhaps offering Neil Webb in part-exchange . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , we expect communication to be verbalised , and preferably in English ! |
| 18 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 19 | Now we expect operators to identify the root cause and make the problem go away themselves , ’ said factory systems manager . |
| 20 | We expect Jesus to be in the right place at the right time , therefore his choosing of male apostles was quite deliberate , which must have theological significance and definite implications for the ministry today . |
| 21 | With their conveniences and their pleasant facades , the two cottages justify her affirmation , which exactly echoes Loudon 's own conviction , that ‘ Life in cottages might be happier than ours , if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections . ’ |
| 22 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 23 | We expect prices to start rising in the late summer or autumn . ’ |
| 24 | We expect Clinton 's election victory to consolidate this and deliver 2.5% GNP growth next year . |
| 25 | We expect surgeries to be open certain hours , and for you to undertake certain preventative health measures for all your patients whether they normally come to the surgery or not . |
| 26 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 27 | In this context , the phrase ‘ higher learning ’ is particularly helpful , because it prompts us to ask whether in higher education there is anything especially ‘ higher ’ about the learning we expect students to achieve . |
| 28 | Simply that in higher education , we expect students to go beyond the material they encompass and to form their own affinity with it . |
| 29 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 30 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |