Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 2 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 3 | A high-speed rail network planned between Seoul and Pusan in the south-east and between Seoul and Mokpo in the south-west was expected to encourage regional development in the relatively underdeveloped south . |
| 4 | We expect to secure more work in 1993 for specialist areas of activity in particular with HV Fox and Satellite DGPS and there will be closer operational links with Aberdeen . |
| 5 | Any attempt by the administration to bring about a comprehensive lifting of sanctions before all US conditions were met had long been expected to meet strong opposition in Congress . |
| 6 | These conditions were expected to meet stiff resistance in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 7 | The speeches in the House of Lords pointed out that one would have expected to find this section in a Part of the Act dealing with company charges rather than in that dealing with debentures , and accepted that the mortgage would not be a ‘ debenture , ’ for the purposes of some of the other sections . |
| 8 | The collapse of the Keating empire , and the destruction of much of Kuwait city by the occupying Iraqis , might have been expected to dim Kuwaiti interest in hotel development in Phoenix . |
| 9 | The related business person 's turnover will be under the current registration threshold if ( broadly ) it is not over £36,600 in any of the last 12 calendar months and is not reasonably expected to exceed that amount in the next 30 days from any time ( VAT Act 1983 , Sch 1 , para 1(1) ) . |
| 10 | Older people are expected to play little part in the running of the group , beyond perhaps a simple process of consultation . |
| 11 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
| 12 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 13 | Thatcherites have been rewarded with the rapid promotion of Michael Portillo , who is expected to keep public spending in check as Chief Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 14 | He is also expected to have complete trust in his opponent in spite of all indications to the contrary . |
| 15 | Parents are expected to have total confidence in the school yet schools do n't often reciprocate trust and confidence in the judgement and goodwill of parents . |
| 16 | It could be argued that the requirement of regularity is unduly restrictive and reflects the rationale of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , namely , the additional duties imposed on suppliers should only fall on those who can , because of the regularity of their dealings , be expected to have some competence in relation to the goods supplied . |
| 17 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 18 | Even in these circumstances we still expect to make steady progress in 1993 . |
| 19 | Phenomena under genetic control , therefore , are expected to show greater similarity in MZ than in DZ twins . |
| 20 | He argued that , on the one hand , reproduction is mainly practised by peasants and others of low rank , who could hardly be expected to show much interest in whether they produced male or female children . |
| 21 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
| 22 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 23 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 24 | Schools in ‘ well off ’ areas can expect to raise more money in direct appeals and in fund raising activities than schools serving poorer communities . |
| 25 | Tony Mash expects to see considerable growth in applications requiring speciality materials — block copolymers with their high-impact strength , random copolymers with enhanced transparency , flexibility and gloss and high-flow homopolymers for the fine fibre and rigid packaging markets . |
| 26 | Despite the expectation that electricity demand grows hardly at all , the CEGB expects to burn more oil in 2000 than it did in 1981 . |