Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no way would we want or expect them to fund state education . ’ |
| 2 | They have least to offer the family in return for all the help and support they may need or expect in return . |
| 3 | Secondly , what is the Kuwaiti position on major issues in the region — nationhood , religion , balance of power , balance of wealth , and finally what future role to Kuwaitis aspire to , what sort of peace to they want or expect . |
| 4 | Bassoonists presumably neither want nor expect to be anything but bassoonists . |
| 5 | So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things . |
| 6 | You effectively repeat what they have said , agreeing with them , and then tell them what you want and expect and why . |
| 7 | What people want and expect from the radio is not necessarily what those who control broadcasting want to give them . |
| 8 | This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt . |
| 9 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 10 | To help use , identify and provide the services you want and expect . |
| 11 | This is a common reaction to the effect of the remedy and you should wait and expect to see an improvement over the next few minutes or an hour or so depending on how severe the illness is . |
| 12 | You ca n't just wait and expect him to come to you . ’ |
| 13 | In general what is permitted and expected with regard to our behaviour towards those who are classed as " we " is either expressly forbidden or disapproved of with respect to those who rate as " they " , and vice versa . |
| 14 | Soon the employee learns that he is not getting from the phone calls what he wants and expects . |
| 15 | It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things . |
| 16 | The effects of retirement can only be understood on an individual basis , its significance depending upon a personal interpretation of the value and importance of work , and what the individual wants and expects from the rest of his or her life . |
| 17 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 18 | A long letter to The Bell argued that expecting Russia 's " educated classes " to solve the country 's problems was futile . |
| 19 | Distinction Awards are Postgraduate studentships which are open to students ordinarily resident anywhere in the UK , who hold or expect to obtain a 1st class Honours degree and who have not previously obtained a postgraduate research award . |
| 20 | Detection in the heteroplasmic strain of a new transcript whose size matched that expected of the fusion transcript indicated that the deleted genomes were indeed transcribed . |
| 21 | Desire , imagine and expect . |
| 22 | Whatever we honestly desire , imagine and expect — so long as it does not conflict with our thoughts , beliefs and attitudes — will happen . |
| 23 | The structure and patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing : it is rare , for example , for a speaker continuously to use complete sentences as we understand them in writing — particularly in a situation where interruption is both accepted and expected . |
| 24 | I shall vote for the amendment and I hope and expect that my honourable friends will do likewise . ' |
| 25 | Yes we could do so it would be a matter of judgement for the er er for the Home Secretary how far to take it and he would have to balance the likelihood of er other countries all ratifying and the inconvenience to those taking part in the election here er if er there is some uncertainty to the end and maybe having to revert to the current constituencies , er I hope and expect that these matters will be settled in the next few weeks . |
| 26 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 27 | Urging and expecting , looking up |
| 28 | ( c ) whether in the board 's judgment , given the trading environment in which the company is operating and expects to operate , adequate financial resources are available to enable it to continue in business for at least 12 months from the date the board approved the financial statements . |
| 29 | Units have tended to fall not rise , so the value of many endowments has not grown as expected . |
| 30 | Clarke won plenty of line-out ball , but Andy Reed and Paul Burnell in the front five did not contribute as expected . |