Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Pluralists and some Marxists expect such institutions to indoctrinate policy-influentials with the need to perform their organizationally defined roles .
2 But some analysts expect Euro Disney to make losses until 1996 .
3 Miss Cackle could n't expect ordinary guests to bring ladders with them , could she ?
4 Hungarian-born Mr Soros , 62 , told a London news conference : ‘ I do n't expect other people to make donations of this size .
5 In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district .
6 It is a question of fact in every case whether the number of people affected will constitute ‘ a class of Her Majesty 's subjects ’ , but Lord Denning provides some guidance , saying ‘ A public nuisance is a nuisance which is so widespread in range and so indiscriminate in its effect that it would not be reasonable to expect one person to take proceedings on his own responsibility to put a stop to it , but that it would be the responsibility of the community at large ’ .
7 Finally , there is the type of public nuisance arising out of private nuisance which affects a sufficiently large number of people that it would not be reasonable to expect one person to take proceedings on his own responsibility : see Denning L.J .
8 Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ?
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