Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Ultimately , it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers .
2 Though those parents who were able to escape to England might have been expected to accept immediate responsibility for their offspring , this was often not practicable .
3 Franco was expected to seek congressional approval for a two-step reform to simplify the tax system and to counter tax evasion , in order to meet performance targets set by the IMF in the January 1992 agreement [ see pp. 38719-20 ] for the disbursement of credits .
4 Everyone pretended to ignore the reaction of the surveyors to the fact that the senior administrative member of Rostov 's staff was a member of a race which could be expected to have little respect for the Imperial establishment .
5 After the initial ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ , the child is expected to take increasing responsibility for its actions and to co-operate with others in everyday activities .
6 Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages .
7 Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages .
8 However , in a semi-strong efficient market as the International Stock Exchange in London we should not expect to find any evidence for P/E ratio being a reliable predictor of returns or volatility of returns .
9 Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that .
10 In both blue-collar and white-collar employment , the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived .
11 Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime .
12 When a new government takes office and opens the Defence books , it expects to find ample room for change and improvement .
  Next page