Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] expect " in BNC.
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1 | For the first time he felt awkward with this tall girl who was young enough to be his daughter , and he wished he had warned Mrs Deacon what to expect . |
2 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
3 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
4 | COATS Viyella , the textile group which expects to hear whether it is allowed to take over rival Tootal in the next few days , has sold its medical businesses to Pharma-Plast Holdings for £12m . |
5 | And it tells the conductor what to expect from each and when . |
6 | She knew from pictures in the Book of Instruction clandestinely glimpsed in her father 's library what to expect , approximately ; and she had seen animals ; but exactly what happened she could not imagine . |
7 | It is about making services easy for people to use and telling people what to expect . |
8 | I agree that it is self-evident that any viable human society which expects to perpetuate itself through procreation ( rather than through some other form of recruitment ) must institutionalize some means of creating an environment in which children may be reared . |
9 | Words to be underlined are " bracketed " with ∘S The program produces an output file suitable for a printer which expects such words to be bracketed by ∘Y . |
10 | The first and biggest is that no nation which expects to take its place in the world order should be in the business of commissioning international vengeance and terrorism . |
11 | The National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital produces an excellent parents ' pack which includes a comic showing young children what to expect in hospital . |
12 | ‘ Those who do come back should tell the young men what to expect . ’ |
13 | an atomic formula is one of the form p ( t , t , … t ) where each t is a term , and p is a predicate symbol which expects k arguments ( i.e. p has arity k ) . |
14 | Contradictions in a system which expects players to concentrate on football , yet not be paid ( unless you count scholarships ? ) are causing increasing problems . |
15 | More by luck than design we chose a ‘ classic ’ parisian bistro for lunch , neither restaurant guides gave much of a clue what to expect , the smart business-like exterior did n't either . |
16 | Just as with healing , I had no idea what to expect . |
17 | It was an invitation to show work in the Arts Council 's ‘ Three Perspectives on Photography ’ show at the Hayward Gallery in 1979 which turned her back towards the family : ‘ I have never been asked to produce work for use in a gallery before , and had no idea what to expect when I showed it . |
18 | At this time it was , to use Nettl 's term , an ‘ inheritor party ’ ; that is to say , a party which expects to inherit power following the decline and overthrow of the existing political system and its socio-economic basis . |
19 | The beginning has to create interest and tell the reader what to expect , while the end will form a disproportionate part of the reader 's final impression of your essay ( in fact , many readers will read the end first , to find out what conclusions you draw ) . |