Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His excuse was forgetfulness but I expect the real reason was lack of funds . |
| 2 | I expect the young novelist ( it seems unfair to give his name ) was thinking of the ‘ first , suppressed edition ’ of Les Fleurs du mal . |
| 3 | I expect the other sort have a ball — like Bella , ’ she added unkindly . |
| 4 | No , the estate agent reckons it 'll be converted into flats , so I expect the new owner 's going to want you out . |
| 5 | I expect the poor soul took the will for the deed , if you 'll excuse a weak joke . |
| 6 | I expect the Scottish Transport Group , before reaching a decision on assistance , to see what it could do to encourage any separate teams to come together to mount a single bid . |
| 7 | Well I expect the whole thing needs washing does n't it ? |
| 8 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
| 9 | Or do you expect the poor beast to get off and skip round on its own for you ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Were you expecting the royal yacht Britannia , complete with resident crew ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 ) ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Dutch version is selling well and we expect the German version to do even better . ’ |
| 15 | We expect the underlying pricing structure to remain rather similar when the electricity industry is privatized , but closely regulated , in the early 1990s . ) |
| 16 | ‘ We expect the dire trading situation to continue to the end of the financial year if not beyond , ’ said Haskins . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 21 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 22 | They expect the average tariff for an air trip to be £64.00 ( at 1987 prices ) in 1993 compared with £39.90 for a through rail trip . |
| 23 | Alternatively speculators might think that the exchange value of the domestic currency will fall even further in the future , perhaps because they expect the current account deficit to become permanent , and so capital inflows will decrease and capital outflows decrease accordingly . |
| 24 | They expect the growing season for crops to be short . |
| 25 | They expect the year-end result to crash from £211m to about £160m to £170m . |
| 26 | It expected the initial ratio would be 1:1 during development , building to five clients to every server during deployment later on . |
| 27 | Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million . |
| 28 | On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million . |
| 29 | He expected the full year contribution to be unchanged from £143m . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy at current trends , how much plutonium he expects the thermal oxide reprocessing plant to have produced by the year 2000 . |