Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 2 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 3 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 4 | The contest for the Democratic nomination was , however , expected to provide significant indications of the party 's aspirations in the final decade of the 20th century . |
| 5 | SEVERE snow falls and high winds are expected to hit substantial parts of northern Scotland , Stonehaven and Drumochter northwards , for up to 24 hours from tonight , forecasters say . |
| 6 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 7 | We expect to stimulate significant improvements in NHS performance , particularly on waiting times , as a result . |
| 8 | At St Bartholomew 's Hospital , 75 beds have closed ; Parkside Health Authority has closed a 20-bed ward it had just re-opened to try to tackle waiting lists ; and proposals to close some beds at the London Hospital are expected to go next week to Tower Hamlets Health Authority , which faces a £1.3m overspend . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The biological resources that just supported small nomadic populations at a neolithic level of culture can not be expected to support larger populations at southern standards of living . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At the same time , two other research programmes that stood to benefit handsomely from the stimulus plan — the $103 million proposed for the Advanced Technology Program ( ATP ) within the Department of Commerce and $47 million sought for cooperative research agreements between industry and the national laboratories in the Department of Energy — are expected to remain important priorities for the Clinton administration and to enjoy rising budgets in 1994 despite the temporary setback in Congress . |
| 15 | Scottish teachers , like their counterparts south of the border , were seeking better pay and conditions ; but the Scottish dispute was also a massive protest at the rapid rate of educational change and at the way in which teachers felt they were expected to carry forward developments without adequate support . |
| 16 | The report , Choosing a Sustainable Future , is expected to carry considerable weight with the Clinton administration ; several members of the team responsible for preparing it are close to the new president . |
| 17 | Novell Inc will push back delivery of the beta version of NetWare 4.0 until September , according to prospective beta testers that have spoken to Microbytes Daily : at least two potential beta testers were told by sales reps that the 4.0 beta version , originally due last week , will be delayed while Novell improves the software 's interface and ramps up staffing on the 4.0 support hot lines ; also , one of the crucial issues Novell has yet to resolve is how easily network administrators will be able to migrate from their existing versions ; 4.0 is expected to include major enhancements to the operating system 's administration services , including audit trails for all file activity and a new retrieve-based user directory . |
| 18 | Conditions were expected to include further liberalization of exchange regulations and the provision of credit and tax changes . |
| 19 | It also meant that all political structures , especially the less specialized and differentiated ones found in Third World states , could be expected to perform additional functions to those which were their main raison d'être . |
| 20 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 21 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 22 | Both these cat families were in zoos , where the proximity of the male was forced on the female and where , if anywhere , one might have expected to see tom-cat aggression towards the young . |
| 23 | It is expected to see initial revenues from the Sentry-E as in the fourth quarter , with first-year sales put at about $25m . |
| 24 | Local authorities , parents and others concerned with the child are expected to agree reasonable arrangements for contact before a care order , whether final or interim , is made . |
| 25 | Friends of the Earth and the Women 's Environmental Network are expected to lodge formal complaints in Brussels that the UK Ecolabelling Board breached its obligation to consult relevant organisations before setting standards . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Following that up when , when can your long suffering shareholders er , expect to see any return on the B Sky B stake and a follow up on that ? |
| 28 | Allowing for intersubject variability , one night still expect to see marked changes in the histology of the small bowel after infusion of 100 mg of pure peptide . |
| 29 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |