Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] expect " in BNC.
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1 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Michael Cohen , a specialist dealer in oriental porcelain who expects to be a big bidder at next week 's sale , spent more than £1 million buying Nanking pieces . |
4 | He disapproves of bribery : ‘ Children do n't need to be saddled with the nagging aspirations of parents who expect little Johnny to do everything they did plus everything they did n't manage to do . ’ |
5 | said : ‘ We are audited on a regular basis by the major pharmaceutical companies who expect us to match FDA standards . |
6 | But he wanted a nice girl who expected the ring . |
7 | Experimenters who expected their subjects to be brighter behaved differently towards the rats and thus affected the rats ' learning abilities . |
8 | The running started because of my father , he was the kind who expected results from his children . |
9 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
10 | It is offered for sale by estate agents Knight , Frank and Rutley who expect it to fetch between £1m and £2m . |
11 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
12 | BELVILLE : To conclude , a husband who expects all this ought not to abridge his wife of any privileges of her sex . |
13 | Election Focus : Labour Boyo Tactics James Langton watches the remarkable transformation of Neil the Wild Man of the Valleys into Kinnock the Man You Can Trust , a figure of international standing who expects the key to Number 10 |
14 | VECTOR is a specially designed bank account for those customers who expect to be overdrawn regularly ; |
15 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
16 | No doubt the clients he entertained here were people who expected the best . |
17 | It reveals a significant gap between the number of informal carers needed by the year 2000 and the number of people who expect to be doing the job . |
18 | One of the most famous hotels in the world , the Cipriani is quite simply for people who expect the very best . |
19 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
20 | His authoritative tone seemed to indicate the latter , giving the impression that here was a man who expected to be obeyed . |
21 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who expects me to love him . |
22 | But I was comforted to discover that these highways are antiquities , built by some unfortunate landowner who expected a visit from the king . |
23 | Spring balances that weigh in excess of 30lb are available for those anglers who expect , or at least hope , to catch carp and pike heavier than 30lb . |
24 | They sprawled across the padded benches before him with the somewhat jaded air of men who expected to hear nothing new . |
25 | In Northern Ireland , where wider cultural values about gender and sex roles are reinforced by common practice , policewomen can be humiliated and face hostility and resentment from some male members of the public who expect to deal with policemen , and normally do . |
26 | They include a responsibility to staff who depend on their employers for a decent standard of living and a responsibility to the customer who expects a decent service . |
27 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
28 | If we accept that more of the caring is done by women the second problematic issue for family care of elderly people is the number of women who expect to be employed outside the home . |
29 | In any case , I do n't know any women who expect to have their dinners paid for . |
30 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |