Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 2 | Expect to wait two or three months for a reply . |
| 3 | He says it 's a great shock to everybody and not something you expect to affect such a young chap . |
| 4 | Even so , expect to lose some of the fry despite these safeguards . |
| 5 | I expect to go higher really . |
| 6 | However few who die are reckoned fit to enter directly into the presence of God and the vast majority of Roman Catholics expect to go first to Purgatory either on account of dying ‘ in venial sin ’ ( Catechism P. 32 ) or being ‘ indebted to God 's justice on account of mortal sin . ’ |
| 7 | There were heavy snowfalls in areas which never expect to see such wintry conditions . |
| 8 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 9 | As its performance continue to improve , we expect to see growing private sector interest in purchasing it outright . |
| 10 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 11 | Following that up when , when can your long suffering shareholders er , expect to see any return on the B Sky B stake and a follow up on that ? |
| 12 | I liked her Mat Coward and Edward Pearce ( ‘ Socialism 's answer to Ezra Pound , only more confused ’ and ‘ A sort of sober Dylan Thomas ’ ) , and confidently expect to see more of her in the future . |
| 13 | Allowing for intersubject variability , one night still expect to see marked changes in the histology of the small bowel after infusion of 100 mg of pure peptide . |
| 14 | During that time , police say they expect to issue hundreds of summonses . |
| 15 | They expect to attract other PTTs and RBOCs . |
| 16 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 17 | ‘ At home , children expect to come first in the life of the family and in school many of them behave in a selfish , uncaring way with no idea of consideration of others , ’ wrote another . |
| 18 | After a nuclear accident , scientists expect to find first leukaemia cases , beginning after five years and peaking after 15–20 years , then thyroid cancer and finally general cancers . |
| 19 | Then , by a slow , gradual process , they get to a point where they expect to find ritual sexual abuse in the community in which they are working . ’ |
| 20 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 21 | Many potential purchasers expect to find fitted wardrobes in bedrooms these days . |
| 22 | And yet the family is often the last place where people expect to find these qualities . |
| 23 | Applicants should hold , or expect to obtain this year , a degree of at least good second-class honours standard in an appropriate Arts or Social Sciences subject . |
| 24 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 25 | The entertainers behind the charity , Les Restaurants du Coeur , expect to serve 25 million meals before spring . |
| 26 | They expect to sell 800,000 of their £70 Game Boys in Britain alone this year . |
| 27 | ‘ We expect to win more line-out ball — an area that has been our undoing in the past — and we are all now encouraged to think for ourselves . |
| 28 | The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation . |
| 29 | Expect to hear good news before sundown . |
| 30 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |