Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a Gallup poll on behalf of Tory Central Office , 90 per cent of top businessmen reckon the Tories have the best long-term economic programme , 52 per cent fear a deterioration under Labour and 80 per cent expect economic improvements under the Tories . |
| 2 | Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events . |
| 3 | Insurance companies understandably expect proper precautions to be taken for the security and safe storage of musical instruments . |
| 4 | Individuals use their radio and television sets in different ways and for different purposes , and expect different things of them . |
| 5 | They expect high levels of performance . |
| 6 | The main cause of these differences is the hotel guests who come and go according to their own personal arrangements and who quite rightly expect high standards and quality service to be maintained throughout their stay . |
| 7 | This is version one of what promises to be one of the leading packages in this field , and , given that that is the case , I expect future versions to add greatly to its functionality . |
| 8 | You do not — or should not — expect tropical nights , moonlit beaches , rhythmic dancing by maidens in grass skirts , or cocktails . |
| 9 | The modest Japanese demand for Grimshaw and a few other Victorian artists such as Henry Parker , Breanski and David James is now subdued , though Christie 's expect Japanese dealers to take about 5% of a Victorian sale . |
| 10 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 11 | Most researchers expect global temperatures to have experienced about half the predicted equilibrium temperature by the 2030s , that is , 1–2 C warmer than it is now . |
| 12 | I expect amazing revelations — a scoop ! ’ |
| 13 | It is not that on the borders of logic there is a loose form called argument from analogy , but that all thinking starts from a spontaneous discrimination of the like and the unlike , and tendency to group the similar in categories and expect similar consequences from similar conditions . |
| 14 | ‘ The Church must stand alongside every family like that — not actually put the Royal Family on a pedestal and expect impossible things of them . ’ |
| 15 | Andrew Mills and Brian Sturgess at Barclays de Zoete Wedd expect full-year profits to fall from £75m to £70m . |
| 16 | Analysts expect full-year profits of £250m compared with Pounds 222m . |
| 17 | Expect flat figures from South West Water and Welsh Water on Thursday . |
| 18 | Expect good figures on Wednesday from hotel and brewing group Bass , booking in for profits at around £530m , up 23%. , helped by better news on the hotel front . |
| 19 | A perfect illustration of his balanced theology was given in the memorable sub-division of his sermon ; ‘ Expect great things from God : attempt great things for God . ’ |
| 20 | We expect great things of you . ’ |
| 21 | It 's always slightly daunting at this particular time because you 're introduced as some sort of guru and people expect great things . |
| 22 | Expect frosty nights , foggy dawns , and snow on the Alpine passes . |
| 23 | But because a given change in performance has less effect on fitness later in life , we expect deleterious mutations to cause a greater drop in fertility and survival probability later in life , assuming the same mutation rate for each age . |
| 24 | While the benefits and opportunities presented by distributing tasks and applications across high-performance , inexpensive Unix processors are being realised across the industry , commercial users expect well-proven systems management utilities such as Digital Equipment Corp 's Enterprise Management Architecture and proprietary systems from the likes of IBM Corp . |
| 25 | ‘ We expect sweeping changes at IBM to be announced shortly and we believe that if possible , IBM will introduce changes in equity ownership , ’ Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Dan Mandresh told investment clients in a report . |
| 26 | Where there are so many herbivorous animals , we expect commensurate carnivores . |
| 27 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 28 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |
| 29 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 30 | In the country , they hope they will work in co-operatives , share the work and the produce , find a new sense of community in their lives , They expect immediate gains in terms of agrarian reform , medical services , greater opportunities to attend school , a literacy campaign . |