Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 2 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 3 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 4 | In sum , we would expect Scotland 's share to amount to some 10.66 per cent , the same percentage of UK Government expenditure as currently received by the Scottish Office . |
| 5 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |
| 6 | However , among the things which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social or natural context and we will expect Moore 's method of isolation to reveal these as the main bearers of intrinsic goodness . |
| 7 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |