Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is version one of what promises to be one of the leading packages in this field , and , given that that is the case , I expect future versions to add greatly to its functionality . |
| 2 | But I expect many others to work on them after me and analyse them in their turn . |
| 3 | I expect many mothers have had the experience of standing at the sink washing and re-washing dishes because a teenage son or daughter is standing in the kitchen talking about something important , and once the dish-washing is over , he or she will go away . |
| 4 | I expect further applications to come in during the next year and , with time , a growing number of applications as the benefits are seen to come through . |
| 5 | You expect most candidates to make you offers and promises — that would be the old way . |
| 6 | We expect all parents to support our aims fully and to uphold our Catholic ethos . |
| 7 | We must start to define where we expect genuine refugees to come from . |
| 8 | But because a given change in performance has less effect on fitness later in life , we expect deleterious mutations to cause a greater drop in fertility and survival probability later in life , assuming the same mutation rate for each age . |
| 9 | ‘ Under the new arrangements we have forecast total ERDF receipts in Scotland of £120 million and , on past experience , we expect local authorities to obtain around £75 million , ’ Mr Lang said . |
| 10 | They expect other nations to set technical standards and to innovate new markets . |
| 11 | Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language , skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire . |
| 12 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 13 | In the case of major company resources it is fair to say that the very large companies invest millions in their computer systems and they expect these systems to have a life span of at least a decade . |
| 14 | This in itself provides some considerable insight into what students of literature regard as " literary " , at least in terms of the kinds of structures which they expect literary texts to exhibit . |
| 15 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |