Example sentences of "expect [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you had never expected Faith to have any money of her own ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | I still expect Italy to win this group . |
| 3 | Audiences today expect choreographers to satisfy current demands . |
| 4 | This year we expect consumers to spend some £80 billion on leisure — almost one quarter of consumer spending . |
| 5 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 6 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 7 | Can we expect individuals to enjoy equal rights and participation in their social lives and yet work under an authoritarian structure at the workplace that gives them little responsibility and allows them little scope for participation ? |
| 8 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 9 | We are now in DIP 's third phase of evolution where we can expect vendors to supply comprehensive workflow software , providing intelligent automation of office tasks and complete integration with other computer systems in the business , as well as the automatic routing of document images to those who need to work with them . |
| 10 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 11 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 12 | It is unrealistic to expect GPs to fund such studies , although some have been undertaken by central government ( Anderson , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 14 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 15 | To expect SARFU to squeeze first-world profits from the new third-world South Africans , when the 1991 World Cup did n't achieve the expected profits — even from first-world venues — would , in my long held view , not only be unrealistic but immoral . |
| 16 | There is considerable debate over when to expect pupils to use Standard English in writing . |
| 17 | A ‘ chew and choke ’ was a transport cafe and the ‘ Bears ’ meant the police , but it was no use expecting Danny to use plain English on a rig . |
| 18 | Was it too much expecting people to watch three times a week ? |
| 19 | Nor had he for one moment expected Wang to offer another shipment . |
| 20 | He expects profits to dip this year from the estimated £580m in the year just ended but reach £645m next year . |
| 21 | The firm expects Europe to contribute another 10% in revenues by the end of the year . |
| 22 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |