Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Or do you expect the poor beast to get off and skip round on its own for you ? ’
32 2 What do you expect the retail price to be ? $399 was suggested for the 4000 , I think , of which you said $240 would be your net receipts .
33 It may not be as easy as surrendering your body to the doctor and simply taking the medicine , nor can you expect an over-night cure .
34 Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers .
35 ‘ Were you expecting an important letter ? ’
36 Were you expecting the royal yacht Britannia , complete with resident crew ? ’
37 We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received !
38 We expected a physical game and we certainly got one .
39 Its intensity ( that is , its energy content ) is given by the square of this , so we expect a transmitted fraction of unc as is indeed the case .
40 We welcome the emphasis on safety in the North sea , but we expect a parallel prioritisation of the extremely dangerous potential accident sites onshore , and we expect to see an improvement in that situation .
41 What we are doing , if we expect a negative outcome , is providing our fear with food from the imagination .
42 Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home .
43 We expect a further reduction in 1993 .
44 There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage .
45 Those ultimate motivations will be the subject of the next section , but here we are interested in exactly what it is that we expect a pragmatic theory to do .
46 In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ .
47 From the considerations of Chapter 15 , we expect the quantitative formulation of the relative importance of inertia and buoyancy forces to be made in terms of some form of the Froude number ( eqn ( 15.7 ) ) .
48 We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world .
49 We expect the final PPG Note to be compatible with existing guidance .
50 It is then that we expect the best group from Southern Africa to be there , including the Homeland leaders .
51 The Dutch version is selling well and we expect the German version to do even better . ’
52 We expect the underlying pricing structure to remain rather similar when the electricity industry is privatized , but closely regulated , in the early 1990s . )
53 Certainly we expect the biggest increase to be in long-haul carriage .
54 We expect the dire trading situation to continue to the end of the financial year if not beyond , ’ said Haskins .
55 Furthermore , we would expect any doctor , not just our own , to behave in the ‘ proper ’ manner , in the same way that we expect the same sort of behaviour from all shop assistants , or all priests , or all fathers .
56 So can we expect a glorious future where dreams and technology merge or are the implications more sinister ?
57 With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ?
58 Indeed , how much longer can we expect the other provinces to continue carrying us ?
59 But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ?
60 It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’
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