Example sentences of "expect the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers expect the current public spending round to be the toughest for many years as the Government seeks to maintain its anti-inflation policy outside the ERM disciplines . |
| 2 | Alternatively speculators might think that the exchange value of the domestic currency will fall even further in the future , perhaps because they expect the current account deficit to become permanent , and so capital inflows will decrease and capital outflows decrease accordingly . |
| 3 | His excuse was forgetfulness but I expect the real reason was lack of funds . |
| 4 | From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) . |
| 5 | Under the experimental onslaught being marshalled , most expect the 17 keV neutrino to wither and die . |
| 6 | They expect the average tariff for an air trip to be £64.00 ( at 1987 prices ) in 1993 compared with £39.90 for a through rail trip . |
| 7 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 8 | Expect the Young Ones crossed with Beetlejuice , Kevin Turvey meets the Female Brat Pack ( Phoebe Cates , Bridget Fonda ) and an example of how to make an Anglo-American film and make it work . |
| 9 | I expect the young novelist ( it seems unfair to give his name ) was thinking of the ‘ first , suppressed edition ’ of Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 10 | In my union branch , as in many others , I expect the best activists to be voting Labour . |
| 11 | It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders . |
| 12 | I 'm paying top dollar and I expect the best . |
| 13 | I know how demanding they are and that they only expect the best . ’ |
| 14 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
| 15 | Both horses and people will use what they have learnt from their own species and expect the other species to understand . |
| 16 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 17 | No , the estate agent reckons it 'll be converted into flats , so I expect the new owner 's going to want you out . |
| 18 | TP watchers expect the new release to include greater interoperability features , such as links with IBM Corp 's CICS/6000 transaction processing environment which is based upon Transarc Corp 's Encina TP technology . |
| 19 | ‘ All in all , we expect the new Ki-Maasai Bible to serve in excess of one million people ’ , he said . |
| 20 | We therefore expect the two stretching regions of the spectrum to show the patterns illustrated in Fig. 5.43 . |
| 21 | They have done this because they rationally expect the aggregate demand curve to be AD in periods 1 and 2 . |
| 22 | It is in this area that the majority of people expect the chief executive to have a personal vision of where the company should be going . |
| 23 | ‘ Expect the poor things needed a holiday . |
| 24 | I expect the poor soul took the will for the deed , if you 'll excuse a weak joke . |
| 25 | But few expect the incumbent Mr Dinkins to say much about slimming his own government . |
| 26 | Some analysts pointed to a further fall of 13,000 in manufacturing jobs which could indicate the overall fall may be due to problems with seasonal adjustments , and expect the upward trend to resume in March . |
| 27 | To cultivate awareness of fact one goes to the sciences , of sensation and emotion to the arts ; and we expect the latter , in sharpest contrast with the former , also to give pleasure . |
| 28 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 29 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 30 | I was a bit blue , and being blue always makes me satirical , so I expect the odd unfair jest might have escaped my lips . |