Example sentences of "they expect [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | They expect other nations to set technical standards and to innovate new markets . |
2 | His bosses , the directors , say they look forward to next year , when they expect new business to increase . |
3 | Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language , skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Now they expect responsible customers to pay for their folly . |