Example sentences of "expect [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 2 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 3 | For major culinary events , such as cooking the Easter turkey , one was expected to drive two miles along the road and use a cooker in a neighbour 's outhouse . |
| 4 | The Maltese Foreign Minister , Guido De Marco , was elected president of the session , which was expected to debate 153 items amongst which the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait assumed priority . |
| 5 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 7 | The Parti Seselwa , led by Wavel Ramkalawan , which won 4.4 per cent of votes , was expected to secure one seat under a " best losers " system . |
| 8 | The £6 million scheme , which is expected to create 150 jobs with 85 more during construction , will provide DIY , electrical and furniture shopping facilities for the north-west of the city . |
| 9 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 10 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 12 | Mr Gonzalez 's party is expected to win 41 percent of the vote , with the conservative Popular Party a distant second at 23 per cent . |
| 13 | It is expected to last two months with a break between June 19 and July 7 . |
| 14 | The inquiry , which will be held in Northallerton and Marton , near Middlesbrough , is expected to last two months with a break between June 19 and July 7 . |
| 15 | The converted station is expected to emit 200,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide a year . |
| 16 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications has Nokia Oy , won an order for a trunked mobile radio system for the island of Java , Indonesia from PT Mobilkom Telekomindo : it is worth about $7m with an option for equipment worth another $7m ; the network is expected to have 40,000 subscribers in five years , and all the major islands of the archipelago will be included in later phases . |
| 17 | The Miniphone cellular network has gone into operation in Buenos Aires and some of its suburbs : the network is expected to have 10,000 users within a year , and is being run by Movistar — set up by Telecom Argentina SA , and controlled by STET SpA and France Telecom — and Telefonica Argentina ; initial investment in the project is $42m , but this is expected to rise to $100m over the next three years . |
| 18 | For example , we expect to have two modes of b 2 symmetry , giving rise to two a-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas . |
| 19 | Amdahl is now expected to deliver two lines of multiprocessing Sparc systems which it will announce later this year . |
| 20 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 21 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
| 22 | The steel crisis , caused by over-production and cheap east European imports , is expected to slash 50,000 jobs in western Europe in the next few years , about 40,000 of them in Germany . |
| 23 | The Democratic Party , led by Mancham , with 33.7 per cent of the votes was expected to occupy eight seats on the commission . |
| 24 | Katharine will be expected to make two speeches during her visit , but for now she 's practicing the most important phrase : thank-you for having me . |
| 25 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 26 | The Rand Mines Group 's new R690,000,000 platinum mine at Crocodile River , near Brits , 60 km north of Johannesburg , was officially opened on Nov. 20 , 1989 , with ore production expected to reach 160,000 tonnes per month by the end of 1990 . |
| 27 | J-registered Cavalier SRi saloons and hatches are good value at auction and bidders can expect to secure 1992 cars with under 10,000 miles from company and fleet sources for around £8250 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now that men and women live longer , many people suggest that it is unrealistic to expect to sustain one marriage for a lifetime . |
| 30 | Site services manager Jilly Cailes thanked those who turned up expecting to fill 1,000 balloons with helium , including students from Sudbury Upper School and representatives from the town 's Volunteer Centre . |