Example sentences of "expect the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We expect the majority of our turnover to be from overseas markets , ’ he said .
2 ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel .
3 International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates .
4 Conservationists expect the government to rely on the existing network of 5,800 sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , which are given only limited protection under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act .
5 They all expect the Government 's public sector borrowing requirement to rise in the coming financial year to anywhere between £40 billion and £55 billion , and interest rates by the end of 1993 to range from 4.5 per cent to the current 6 per cent .
6 They all expect the Government 's public sector borrowing requirement to rise in the coming financial year to anywhere between £40 billion and £55 billion , and interest rates by the end of 1993 to range from 4.5 per cent to the current 6 per cent .
7 We expect the course of study to appeal to lecturers in FE and nursing , teachers involve with TVEI or sixth form programmes , careers and other support staff , LEA advisers and officers and staff from training agencies .
8 Even with this beta version , no major problems have surfaced , so we expect the release version to be very solid and robust .
9 I 'm I 'm sorry Councillor Wyle , I expect the courtesy towards the Chair , and I am now summing up , so please be quiet .
10 Liverpool , who hold a 6-1 lead from the first leg , expect the support of around 4,500 fans for a match that has put the Cypriot police on alert because Juventus , the other Heysel disaster club , are also in action on the island .
11 Analysts expect the company to make £36m pre-tax profits for the year to March .
12 Analysts also expect the company to shed its large stake in merchant bank Singer & Friedlander .
13 Most analysts expect the company to record sales of around $1.8 billion for the year to June 30th — a 19-fold increase in seven years .
14 The private sector will have an incentive to form an estimate of this policy rule and use the resultant knowledge to arrive at their subjective estimate of what they expect the money supply will be in period .
15 Should n't fathers pay their share and not exc er expect the state to provide for their children ?
16 Panorama ( BBC-1 , Monday , 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for thousands of single mothers like these , who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ?
17 PANORAMA ( BBC1 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for the thousands of single mothers who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ?
18 I do n't know Neil — girls these days , they expect the moon as well as the earth , do n't they ?
19 Well I 'd no room in this shop , there was no erm anywhere to store them expect the man just here see , where the g where they used to keep his car .
20 It is very rarely sufficient just to put the product on the table and expect the photographer to get on with photographing it .
21 Now , we expect the prince to be far less sensitive about their relationship . ’
22 One client even received a letter from Harvard Securities saying of Towerbell : " I expect the price to rise to higher levels and will advise further " .
23 We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent .
24 She says younger users often expect the drug to work immediately although its affects can take up to an hour so they take more , which increases the risks .
25 In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week .
26 Never ask or expect the patient to perform actions that his physiotherapist considers are too hard for him .
27 There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer .
28 In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role .
29 Providing the European Parliament does not delay the proposal 's passage , Commission officials expect the Council of Energy ministers to approve ALTENER at its November 13 meeting .
30 Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries .
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