Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akashi , during a visit to Japan on March 11 , said that he expected the Japanese government to contribute a third of UNTAC 's estimated total cost of US$1,900 million . |
| 2 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 3 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 4 | The government expected the Soviet Union to remain Czechoslovakia 's most important trading partner . |
| 5 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 6 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 7 | So entranced was he by all this technology that he half expected the same voice to thank him . |
| 8 | Three out of four independent economic forecasting bodies expected the Scottish economy to perform better than the UK economy both last year and this year . |
| 9 | Mr Willasey expected the latest document to last through most of the 1990s , but it would be reviewed subject to any changes in fashion trends . |
| 10 | Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events . |
| 11 | They had expected the Prime Minister to appoint a third woman to his Cabinet . |
| 12 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
| 13 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | The concept of education vouchers fits remarkably well into the Tory programme of privatisation' of the social services and one might have expected the Conservative Party to move quickly towards a practical scheme of education vouchers … |
| 15 | We expect the Islamic nation to support us in our latest struggle which we are carrying out in order to preserve the interests of the whole Islamic world . |
| 16 | Both horses and people will use what they have learnt from their own species and expect the other species to understand . |
| 17 | TP watchers expect the new release to include greater interoperability features , such as links with IBM Corp 's CICS/6000 transaction processing environment which is based upon Transarc Corp 's Encina TP technology . |
| 18 | It is in this area that the majority of people expect the chief executive to have a personal vision of where the company should be going . |
| 19 | Some analysts pointed to a further fall of 13,000 in manufacturing jobs which could indicate the overall fall may be due to problems with seasonal adjustments , and expect the upward trend to resume in March . |
| 20 | Draw a sketch plan of what you expect the finished shop to look like . |
| 21 | I would suggest to you colleagues , it 's because the , your expectations and those of the , er , the other erm , stake holders involved in the other agencies about joint planning depends on what you expect the joint structures to carry . |
| 22 | You half expect the next song to start anyway because there are batteries in it , but , instead : silence . |
| 23 | They expect the year-end result to crash from £211m to about £160m to £170m . |
| 24 | The Dutch version is selling well and we expect the German version to do even better . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Now you leave Yugoslavia and still expect the Yugoslav Army to protect you . ’ |
| 26 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 27 | Indeed , how much longer can we expect the other provinces to continue carrying us ? |
| 28 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 29 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 30 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |