Example sentences of "[pron] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 2 | I expect restaurateurs will be itching to copy Jean-Paul Gaultier 's extraordinary staff uniform with the fork epaulette , but the rest of the details are ingredients for thought only . |
| 3 | And now every time I see an advert , or just anything , I expect things to explode . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I expect things will get stirred up pretty soon now that the Admiral 's back in town , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 6 | His share was a good quarter of the capital provided for the voyage , so I expect returns . ’ |
| 7 | " I expect Manners 'ud like to do the same . " |
| 8 | By the third day I expect third-years to work alone , and if you slip up , gal , I 'll have your guts for garters ! |
| 9 | As an author , I expect reviewers to be honest and objective . |
| 10 | After all , football left leather behind long ago , but I expect cricketers will be up in arms about this suggestion . |
| 11 | When he smiles , you expect fangs , and there they are , rows and rows of sharp white teeth . |
| 12 | The changed role of the nurse from being carer , provider and giver of advice and direction is also new for Community Mothers and clients who expect nurses to operate from their traditional professional role and to have all the answers , and deal with all the problems . |
| 13 | ‘ We expect EDS will take part in its future development and hope they can help in bringing down its processing costs , ’ Hjoth concluded . |
| 14 | We expect products that sell to go on selling . |
| 15 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 16 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 17 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 18 | Now we expect operators to identify the root cause and make the problem go away themselves , ’ said factory systems manager . |
| 19 | With their conveniences and their pleasant facades , the two cottages justify her affirmation , which exactly echoes Loudon 's own conviction , that ‘ Life in cottages might be happier than ours , if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections . ’ |
| 20 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 21 | We expect prices to start rising in the late summer or autumn . ’ |
| 22 | We expect surgeries to be open certain hours , and for you to undertake certain preventative health measures for all your patients whether they normally come to the surgery or not . |
| 23 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 24 | In this context , the phrase ‘ higher learning ’ is particularly helpful , because it prompts us to ask whether in higher education there is anything especially ‘ higher ’ about the learning we expect students to achieve . |
| 25 | Simply that in higher education , we expect students to go beyond the material they encompass and to form their own affinity with it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We expect candidates to communicate effectively — but will not be looking for perfect Business English . |
| 28 | On the whole we expect opportunities to start paying off very quickly . |
| 29 | … we expect books to generate ideas for exploration , we try to choose books that will challenge and ask questions of our brightest children and yet provide an accessible experience for the weakest . |
| 30 | After all , we expect cuts to heal themselves , broken bones to knit , colds to clear . |