Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I 'm concerned , the residents come first ; and I expect every member of staff to understand that , right through from helping them get up in the morning to taking someone off to bingo if she wants to go . |
| 2 | I expect a windfall of treesnakes and insects |
| 3 | Once the Scottish Office commence their national publicity for Council Tax at the end of September I expect the number of enquiries , including enquiries about Banding , to increase dramatically . |
| 4 | She had n't expected him to greet her with ecstatic joy — his emotions were n't extreme like Lowell 's thankfully — but neither had she expected a degree of embarrassment . |
| 5 | I mean , with forays abroad , I dare say , but would you expect the rest of life to be spent in Scotland , or based in Scotland ? |
| 6 | Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds ? |
| 7 | Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures . |
| 8 | In the past , this did not mean that we would not move from company to company , it most certainly did not mean that we ha that we thought we had a job for life , but it did mean that we expected a degree of permanence and improvement as part of the reward for our endeavours and labour . |
| 9 | We expect a lead from Westminster , not a vacuum left at Christmas or any other time of the year by a bunch of freeloaders . |
| 10 | If we then take a biochemical marker , such as , say , increased fucose incorporation in the hours after training , we expect a difference between A and D , due to the training , and between C and F , as the delayed shock group has both tasted the bead and shows the memory . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We expect the level of running costs of the Trident force to be well below 2 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ Customers ’ orders , as well as invoices , can be processed via the EDI network and Atlas ; we expect the number of customers wanting to transmit orders in this way to increase substantially over the next two years . |
| 14 | This year they expect a turnover of £170 m , and More than half their shoes are sold abroad . |
| 15 | The defender averred that as a result of that announcement he telephoned Macfie & Alexander , speaking to Mr Rae , one of the partners , and told him to expect an offer of £70,000 from Ferguson & Forster and that he instructed Mr Rae that when the offer was received , he ( the defender ) would consider its terms and if he found them satisfactory he would instruct Mr Rae to accept the offer . |
| 16 | Presenting the seventh development plan ( 1991-97 ) to the National Assembly on Nov. 19 , Masire said that he expected a slowdown in revenue in the coming period and that the private sector would have to play a greater role in diversifying the economy and reducing the dependence on mineral exports . |
| 17 | Stok sipped his drink and waited as though he expected a round of applause . |
| 18 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 19 | He expects a ruling from Ian Lang , Secretary of State for Scotland , on the proposals by the end of this month . |
| 20 | If he expects the price of dollars — the exchange rate — in the spot market to be the same as the current forward price , then a rational agent would be indifferent between the transactions under certain conditions . |
| 21 | He expects the jump from county to Test cricket to be another step up in terms of bowling and concentration . |
| 22 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |
| 23 | It expects a deficit of $30 billion ( £18 billion ) this year , against the Treasury 's £14.5 billion . |
| 24 | And having long been supported by the institution he will be crucially aware that it expects a degree of loyalty verging on deference or acquiescence . |
| 25 | It expects the number of mainframe customers to decrease by 44% — they 'll be interested in value added software to their current mainframe solutions . |
| 26 | It expects the number of mainframe customers to decrease by 44% — they 'll be interested in value added software to their current mainframe solutions . |
| 27 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |