Example sentences of "expects the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Union Bank of Switzerland expects the dollar to begin trading higher against the Deutschmark before the end of 1992 . |
| 2 | You said the child may not be developing in the way the parent expects the child to develop , and I think that it 's very important for parents to check out their expectations . |
| 3 | You said the child may not be developing in the way the parent expects the child to develop , and I think that it 's very important for parents to check out their expectations . |
| 4 | There are just three employees on the payroll now , but McQuillen expects the centre to employ 50 by the end of this year — and 200 jobs are expected to be created within three years . |
| 5 | That is just as well , because , after the initial curiosity value , Muddle expects the attendance to fall to around 500 . |
| 6 | The IMF expects the imbalances to widen again this year and next . |
| 7 | The City expects the Chancellor to alter but not altogether abandon the rule , effectively reducing the amount of gilt-edged stock bought in by the Bank of England . |
| 8 | While , theoretically , local authorities may spend their own incomes in ways they themselves choose , the government , in calculating local government grants , increasingly indicates how it expects the authorities to allocate funds between priorities . |
| 9 | With the graphics visualisation market apparently booming at present , PV says it expects the company to report an increase in profits this year of $19.3m , up $2.5m from the previous year 's $16.8m . |
| 10 | Binoche expects the painting to fetch about £30m , but the figure depends on whether it gets a French export licence . |
| 11 | The revision results mainly from the woes of Germany , where the OECD expects the recession to deepen . |
| 12 | In the following example , the question-tag is ‘ are n't they ’ ; when it has a falling tone , as in ( a ) , the implication is said to be that the speaker is comparatively certain that the information is correct , and simply expects the listener to provide confirmation , while the rising tone in ( b ) is said to indicate a lesser degree of certainty , so that the question-tag functions more like a request for information . |
| 13 | He writes it all down , he sends it all in and expects the system to handle it . . |
| 14 | The King takes a disliking to the cheshire cat but expects the cat to show respect towards him . |
| 15 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 16 | Although the deal is not yet final , a spokesperson for the Palais told The Art Newspaper she expects the Kunsthalle to relocate to Bonsecours Market in the Old City where it will reopen next May , perhaps with a new name , and probably with a show about Alexander the Great and Macedonia . |
| 17 | Hewlett says that it expects the pact to generate around $100m of sales over three years . |
| 18 | Cruising at 150–185 mph , he expects the circumnavigation to take five and a half days . |
| 19 | No one expects the editors to commit themselves before receiving a submitted paper , but some indication of the degree of pleasure with which a resubmission would be received would be welcome . |
| 20 | He confidently expects the day to yield a crushing English victory , a Triple Crown , a Grand Slam and absolutely no bloody problem . |
| 21 | Normally one expects the individual to acquire a structure then practise it until he achieves competence in it in communication ; but the input hypothesis says the opposite is true : in order to acquire structure , we first need to deal with meaning . |
| 22 | The ward sister can explain what she expects the nurse to learn during the allocation , and can set objectives . |
| 23 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
| 24 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 25 | Because it expects the pound to strengthen in the months ahead , it has based its North Sea oil calculations on an exchange rate of $1.60 to the pound . |
| 26 | South Africa has said it expects the UN to reduce its 4,000-strong military presence once the poll is over and a Constituent Assembly has been elected to draft a new constitution . |
| 27 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 28 | The secretary-general of Cites , Eugene Lapointe , expects the conference to reach a compromise on the ivory trade , stopping short of the total ban opposed by some African countries . |
| 29 | No one expects the petition to amend the indenture to Barnes ' will to get a court hearing before June . |
| 30 | Tandem expects the technology to eliminate any remaining unplanned downtime users experience as well as any planned downtime needed for housekeeping chores like changing operating systems on the fly , a key facility in any mission-critical application from E-mail to fare collections . |