Example sentences of "[noun] they expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 2 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 3 | When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson . |
| 4 | Predicting : students look at the title of the passage and discuss their expectations in pairs ; they then write down ten words they expect to find ; they then read the passage and see if their words appear . |
| 5 | The other one of the , one of the things that people find very difficult , the learning all the words they expect you to know . |
| 6 | The leaders were to receive wages for their men for six months , and for the rest of the year they were to pay the troops out of the ransoms they expected to take . |
| 7 | They propose to research the patterns of socialization operating within the evangelical-baptist culture and thereby to investigate the effect on educational achievement of the cluster of variables they expect to uncover as emphasis on bible study and abstention from aspects of secular culture . |
| 8 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 9 | Parents vary in the quantity they expect their child to be able to eat so a food diary can help the therapist determine appropriate quantities with the parents . |
| 10 | When they come to live and work in England they expect no language difficulties such as they know would await them in , say , Panama or Cuba . |
| 11 | The four main zaibatsu were more than able to supply the financial needs of the two main political parties , but in return they expected state support to continue . |
| 12 | Equity funding tends to be expensive because shareholders bear a relatively high risk that is reflected in the return they expect on their investment . |
| 13 | When big investors get on the telephone they expect to be put through to the chairman , not ‘ lumbered into a PR-type department ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ You can be certain they hope for that but I do n't believe for a moment they expect it . |
| 15 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 16 | In one market , though , western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected : newspapers . |
| 17 | For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds . |
| 18 | Because social anthropologists take it for granted ( sometimes mistakenly ) that the distinction between true-kin and affines is of absolutely central importance they expect to find that the behaviour that is appropriate between affines will be a kind of coded inversion of the behaviour that is appropriate between true-kin . |
| 19 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 20 | However as Levi points out , different official agencies use these powers in a manner which is related to the level of tolerance they expect from the media and politicians . |
| 21 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
| 22 | Moreover , in the national survey , almost 60% of those who responded did not expect to take part in further training and only 8% identified specific topics they expected to cover in the future . |
| 23 | Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language , skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire . |
| 24 | One way of doing this is to ensure that specialists implementing technical changes , eg the Resource Management Initiative , pay heed to the behavioural changes they expect to promote in managers and staff involved . |
| 25 | The day they expect me to pay for it , I shall retire . |
| 26 | ‘ The other board members will expect to have their say , but at the end of the day they expect , and accept , that the chairman should decide . ’ |
| 27 | Her brother he had met before and the two men talked about the year 's haysaving and the price they expected for sheep and wool and cattle . |
| 28 | Firms base their production plans for period t on the price they expect to prevail in t , this expectation being formed , as before , in the light of information available at the end of period t - 1 . |
| 29 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 30 | The Franks were also worried about how ‘ tough ’ Carter appeared — before they toured with the duo they expected Jim Bob and Fruitbat to beat them up . |