Example sentences of "expect the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett expected the Pictish village to be hidden and secretive but suddenly the trees thinned , the sunlight glimmered then poured through as they abruptly left the canopy of trees and entered a large clearing . |
| 2 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 3 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 4 | Moreover , the new credits entailed a transfer from husbands to wives or , as the issue came to be known , from ‘ wallet to purse ’ , and hence one might have expected the male-dominated TUC to be opposed to them . |
| 5 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 6 | He had n't expected the red carpet to be unrolled for him , but he had thought that at last he would be at work , setting up his meetings , on the move . |
| 7 | And last year , insurers expect the final cost to be as much as a billion pounds . |
| 8 | Readers wishing to make a similar tray should note that it is not possible to assign values arbitrarily to the sides of the rectangle and ‘ rise ’ of both flaps and expect the resulting outline to be a smooth one . |
| 9 | This assumption is not necessarily an appropriate one , and we might , for example , expect the random terms to be correlated across individuals ( e.g. , reflecting the state of the economy ) . |
| 10 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 11 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 13 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 14 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 15 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 16 | They do not expect the medical profession to be disinterested , and are disappointed if it does not provide advice and support . |
| 17 | 2 What do you expect the retail price to be ? $399 was suggested for the 4000 , I think , of which you said $240 would be your net receipts . |
| 18 | He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war . |
| 19 | However , I do not expect the full effect to be felt until next year , when I am sure we can expect a megaseller each month . |
| 20 | That level of contact must certainly be maintained in future under the Commission , and I would expect the national coaches to be co-opted on to the Commission itself as non-voting members . ’ |
| 21 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 22 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 23 | Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be . |
| 24 | As yet Mr. Bowden does not know how much money he has raised , but expects the final total to be well over £250 . |
| 25 | No one expects the Prime Minister to be here to vote on Friday 14 February , but will he tell the House and the country whether he supports the abolition of fox hunting , deer hunting and hare coursing ? |
| 26 | Sales have already been made to Abu Dhabi and Egypt and for several other projects in Saudi Arabia , and ESP expects the Middle East to be an increasingly important market for their products and services in the future . |