Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
| 2 | In statements of a numerical type , especially , it is always sensible practice to expect the source to be given with each figure . |
| 3 | Until the mid-80s , such funds were discouraged by both the Charity Commissioners and the Inland Revenue , but now , as the rules are changed , the industry expects a flood of them with managers aggressively promoting them . |
| 4 | Once the world 's nations can agree on how to exploit mineral deposits on the seabed , the robots association expects the market for robots to do the job to be £4.2 million in 1985 , rising to £35–9 million by 1990 . |
| 5 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 6 | Hartlepool Council expects the bridge to be open for public use in weeks . |
| 7 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |
| 8 | Of course we had no right to expect the life of the household , let alone the street , to be hushed because of us , but in the absence of quiet it took me hours to drift off . |
| 9 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 10 | A staunch friend expected the countenance of the politician to whom he had attached himself , and a failure to actively canvass for a candidate might well he repaid in full by hostility at the next general election . |
| 11 | THE Government was warned last night to expect a rebuff as the Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel prepared to ballot members on a deal rejected by the five TUC-affiliated unions for ambulance staff . |
| 12 | Part of herself , she thought , was killed , a tender , budding part ; the daisy-crowned young girl who would stay behind to haunt the old house , to appear in mirrors where the new owner expected the reflection of his own face , to flash whitely on dark nights out of the prickly core of the apple tree . |
| 13 | • Next year , new public registers or contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act will be opened , and the Department of the Environment expects an increase in public pressure for sites to be cleaned up . |
| 14 | In 1990 the government expected a growth in imports of 25 per cent , so that exports would need to grow by 15 per cent in order to limit the fall in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990 to 2 per cent . |
| 15 | They learn from birth to expect no help from artifice . |
| 16 | If this is not true , then there is no longer any reason to expect a tendency towards equality between the real wage and the marginal disutility of labour . |
| 17 | The biggest error of all was for investment ; the Treasury expected a fall in volume terms of under 1% , but in the event it fell by 12% . |
| 18 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 19 | The company expects the makers of electrolytic batteries ( like the ones in cars ) to be big customers for its new product . |
| 20 | Can the family help or allow the child to develop a black personality without feeling that a wedge is being driven between the family and the child ; does the family expect the child to be a white person in a black skin ? |
| 21 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |