Example sentences of "expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expect a Tendulkar fan club to form quickly . |
| 2 | We usually expect a marriage to last — yet things can change ! |
| 3 | I expect a windfall of treesnakes and insects |
| 4 | If you expect a child to write about a personal experience , engagement with that experience has to be regarded as a priority . |
| 5 | As any Boy Scout could tell you , this means : ‘ I expect a return . ’ |
| 6 | We expect a return on our investment . |
| 7 | ‘ And you think I expect a return ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Many people expect a standard from members of the Royal Family , which they do n't expect from their own families . |
| 9 | ‘ People expect a service and we always try to help , ’ he said . |
| 10 | By the turn of the century , to borrow from DEC 's Alpha phrase book , the pair expect a Sparc to have 100m transistors , operating at clock speeds approaching a billion cycles and deliver two billion instructions a second . |
| 11 | Sometimes , though , doctors prescribe more medicines than are necessary because they think that most of their patients always expect a prescription . |
| 12 | The markets , and the employers who are busy fuelling wage inflation , expect a depreciation . |
| 13 | When we offer a child a symbol , we expect a response . |
| 14 | Expect a mess : Your doctor will expect your home to be clean but it is not necessary to sterilise everything . |
| 15 | As Mann says , this may be acceptable if the only evidence consists of a ‘ one-sided dialogue ’ where the suspect refuses to answer any questions at all , but where some , a significant number perhaps , are answered , it may be highly impracticable to sever a conversation in this way and still expect a jury to make sense of it . |
| 16 | Buses are er trains are fine say British Rail the er airport 's fine as well say er East Midlands Airport no problems there er city centre traffic 's all moving fine as well there 's work still in Baysford on David Lane and Southwick Street where the crossing is closed expect a delay if you 're heading there . |
| 17 | Ossis , mostly baffled by the society they thought they wanted , expect a sympathy most Wessis seem unable to muster . |
| 18 | His solicitor , Michael Hanley , said : ‘ We expect a date for his deportation is imminent . |
| 19 | Supervisors demand to be kept fully informed , and expect a field officer to have at his fingertips all relevant details about any pollution and the people involved . |
| 20 | As for me , the things I expect a computer to do have advanced somewhat . |
| 21 | And naturally you expect a member of our own family to be trustworthy . |
| 22 | Expect a wave of friendly mergers and alliances that do not require new money , either equity or debt . |
| 23 | According to the poll , conducted among directors of the leading 500 companies , 96 per cent of business leaders think a Labour victory would bring higher interest rates , while 83 per cent also expect a fall in the value of the pound against the German mark . |
| 24 | We should not , however , expect a question for the initial verb alone since this is only possible in English for verbs which describe something as being , in some as yet ill-defined sense , " done " to their objects : ( 69 ) what did Rafferty do to the cistern ? and this can not be claimed for the verbs preceding clausal adjectives any more than for a verb which precedes an explicit subordinate clause . |
| 25 | We do not , either , expect a question for the combination of the initial property and the entity , and indeed there are no such forms of question . |
| 26 | We then expect a Pre-Inquiry meeting will be held by the Secretary of State sometime in September and that a Local Public Inquiry will take place either before or just after Christmas . |
| 27 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 28 | To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation . |
| 29 | but then then they expect a tip |
| 30 | Mrs Burke 's daughter , Mrs Doreen Leverton , 63 , said : ‘ You always expect a parent to die sometime but not in this way . |