Example sentences of "[pron] they expect " in BNC.
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1 | This finally freed Raybestos to begin production , which they expected to start by the end of the month . |
2 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
3 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
4 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
5 | DSP seems a particularly important topic since it represents the doorway between the way that people do things and the tasks which they expect electronics to do . |
6 | City economists welcomed the decision to raise rates and defend the pound 's value , which they expect to subdue inflation more effectively . |
7 | How is it that banks issue certain types of Credit which they expect will never be drawn on ? |
8 | Councillors vary tremendously in the extent to which they expect to be involved in day-to-day matters of administration in the authority . |
9 | Failure to use these words can lead to a lot of confusion , and provide opportunities for awkward parties to obstruct a reference by questioning the procedure used to arrive at a result which they expect to be unfavourable . |
10 | This in itself provides some considerable insight into what students of literature regard as " literary " , at least in terms of the kinds of structures which they expect literary texts to exhibit . |
11 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
12 | The pupils are insulted by weakness on the part of those in authority who they expect to be strong and this weakness , once established , provokes more playing up : |
13 | If that were to be established , the defenders would be faced with difficulties in relation to witnesses whom they expected to lead but whose Reports were not as favourable as hoped . |
14 | But more frequently it arose that , in the absence of a policewoman , the female field-worker was relied upon for comfort by female members of the public , engaging her in eye contact to find what they expected would be a special ‘ feminine ’ understanding and reassurance . |
15 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
16 | Just what they expected . |
17 | People who do sometimes find out they are very unhappy , either because the course is not what they expected , or because they just do n't like the institution . |
18 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
19 | The development of the inter-bank market enabled banks to lend for specified periods of time , repayment to coincide with what they expected to be periods of shortage . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
22 | People forget these things , she thought , they do not bear them in mind , doctors work to routine , finding only what they expect to find , they glimpse these cases in a newspaper and then pass on , they are hide-bound , they do not remember . |
23 | It is what they expect from Robyn Penrose , and even the rugby-playing boys in the back row would be mildly disappointed if she did n't produce this kind of observation from time to time . |
24 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
25 | Two further advantages are that objectives provide the student with a clear idea of what is expected of her and that teachers are forced to think clearly about what they expect of students . |
26 | Casual observers tend to see what they expect to see , and naked-eye observations of the full Moon are a case in point . |
27 | Either way , they have to face the possibility of discovering discrepancies between what they expect and what they experience , and in that lies the potential for development . |
28 | That 's what they expect , so move with it . |
29 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
30 | The study of black sportsmen and society brings into relief the way in which the youths ' orientations to school and what they expect to achieve from education affect , not segmentally but totally , their attitudes , postures and the way in which they apportion their time and energies . |