Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 2 | Ferry lines expect a huge rush of passengers taking advantage of the new freedom . |
| 3 | You still have to be on top of your stuff , though — judges expect a certain level of competence to staging a little-girl-lost act in court will do no good whatsoever . |
| 4 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 5 | ‘ Our customers expect a high level of knowledge . |
| 6 | Just as investors expect a high return for their capital , we should expect working people to receive a fair return for their labour . |
| 7 | ‘ Export prospects look brighter with smaller firms expecting a slight increase in orders in the next four months . |
| 8 | He warned his players to expect a hostile reception in England and said : ‘ We came mentally prepared for a hard time and determined to give our answer out there on the field . |
| 9 | MOST voters expect a hung Parliament after Thursday but half are unhappy about the idea , according to Gallup 's final pre-election survey for The Sunday Telegraph . |
| 10 | Most City forecasters expect a bigger fall in the current-account deficit . |
| 11 | In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ . |
| 12 | It is also possible that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century working class women expected a greater degree of drunkenness and violence on the part of husbands than would be tolerated today . |
| 13 | Although new firms continue to enter the market , most commentators expect the total number of GEMMs to decline further . |
| 14 | Moreover , the court should not approach decisions and reasons given by committees of laymen expecting the same accuracy in the use of language which a lawyer might be expected to adopt . |
| 15 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 16 | Novell Inc is getting together with Oracle Corp on June 15 to announce ‘ a major joint initiative relating to products and strategies for Enterprise Network Computing ’ : analysts expect a strategic move in response to Microsoft Corp working closely with Sybase Inc on Windows NT , but the agreement is not thought to involve equity stakes . |
| 17 | The Commission nevertheless insists there are no grounds to expect a significant impact on Community markets . |
| 18 | Extending this principle a little further , each one of these types expects a certain reaction from their chosen victim — perhaps terror , disgust , humiliation or just stunned silence . |