Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say . |
| 2 | This she expects and indeed wants . |
| 3 | Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money . |
| 4 | For 1993 we expect development expenditure to be approximately £150 million less and within this budget we are planning to devote significant funds to our UK offshore projects in Morecambe Bay . |
| 5 | Dr Patrick Brooks , Senior Medical Adviser , Scottish Rome and Health Department The current " family " of design guidance notes for use in planning new hospitals buildings in the Scottish Health Service is at present Hospital Planning Note 1 ( HPN1 ) , and its collection of supplements which , at November 1988 , numbered 11 in all , with one further one expected early in 1989 . |
| 6 | For example , in the Raman spectrum of CO 2 we expect only one fundamental , due to the symmetric stretch , of symmetry species . |
| 7 | This he expected from Turnour 's voice , manner and the way he looked as he was sitting . |
| 8 | I did n't say anything , though the way he had said it made it clear he expected some comment . |
| 9 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 10 | Sampson ( broken bone in hand ) and Anderson ( back ) may cause bigger problems but Mr Van de Velde made it clear he expects improvements from a side who were unbeaten this year until after the semi-final . |
| 11 | In 1972 it expected that the new system of fewer and larger local authorities would prove more efficient . |
| 12 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 13 | Ten quid 'll have it fixed I expect . |
| 14 | how much you expecting to get ? |
| 15 | How much they expect you |
| 16 | He has not told the House how much he expects his proposals to cost , both in the pilot phase , when adult credits will be paid to a quarter of a million people , and later when he hopes to extend the scheme across the country . |
| 17 | ‘ I maybe asks as should n't , but when is the little one expected ? |
| 18 | Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more . |
| 19 | And the pr we 're er , I would expect the profits of Thames to be in line with that that we expected when we acquired the business . |
| 20 | If district councils in Northern Ireland are to have a meaningful role in promoting tourism and job creation within their areas , can the Secretary of State give us an assurance that he will ask the planners to deal more sympathetically with applications that have district council approval for facilities to cater for the tourists who are coming now and the many more that we expect in the future ? |
| 21 | In all I expect we were about a dozen strong before taking departure for Malta from a point to the South of the Balearics . |
| 22 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 23 | She 's not like I expected . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Both managements are doing all we expect them to . ’ |
| 25 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 26 | A spot of rough stuff in the night ; that 's all they expected . |
| 27 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 28 | As for Provincial , if you were visiting an area in which you were not quite sure what to expect , you might find Mark 1 or 2 ( the latter air conditioned or otherwise ) locomotive-hauled rakes of various lengths and compositions , first-generation multiple units ( anything from one to nine cars , riding roughly but still with forward and rear vision ) , or the latest Sprinters , plain , super or express , many with privately run buffet-trolley service on long cross-country journeys . |
| 29 | A docker was never sure what to expect when he reported for work in the morning . |
| 30 | Every now and then she feels the urge to do something exciting and out of character ; people are never quite sure what to expect from her . |