Example sentences of "[conj] expect a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without waiting for or expecting a reply , Martha and the reluctant Tilda walked through into the back office . |
| 2 | Collins , which is publishing Mrs Thatcher 's memoirs , is one of those that expect a glut in the market . |
| 3 | LOTHIAN Region 's council tax will be lower than expected a a result of savings made from a year of spending restraints , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 5 | Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) . |
| 6 | Here is a volume you could present to someone with no interest in science and expect a pleasurable reaction from any but the most insensitive . |
| 7 | Supervisors demand to be kept fully informed , and expect a field officer to have at his fingertips all relevant details about any pollution and the people involved . |
| 8 | For visitors would stare at her , ask her questions , would talk and expect a reply , and Alida knew that she could say nothing , could not cope with any demands . |
| 9 | He would never be officially informed that Rich had applied for a warrant and to expect a bailiff at his door next week . |
| 10 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 11 | Its chairman , Roly Smith , says that anyone buying one of the titles and expecting a practical , up-to-date guide will be ‘ sadly and quite literally misled ’ . |
| 12 | Regina was back home and expecting a baby by the end of the year . |
| 13 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 14 | The unmitigated gall of the man , strolling up at this time and expecting a welcome . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ It is not a time limited offer but we will be sending the contracts out and expecting a response to them . ’ |
| 16 | Luke was still staring at her as if expecting a rabbit to emerge from her sleeve at any moment . |
| 17 | I am , after all , ’ he added , glaring round the room as if expecting a challenge , ‘ the executor of Sir Ralph 's . ’ |
| 18 | Every author makes certain assumptions about his or her reader and expects a degree of knowledge , understanding , and experience . |
| 19 | According to Mr Gross , the JMU demands more than adequate planning , controlling and recording of work ; does not distinguish between small and large companies ; and expects a memorandum setting out the outline ordered approach . |
| 20 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 21 | However , it thinks some kind of contact will be forged over time and expects a port to the company 's DRS6000 Unix box to materialise in the not too distant future . |
| 22 | He takes on Kenya 's former Olympic champion Paul Ereng in Hengelo , Holland , next Sunday and expects a hard race as part of his preparations for the World Championships in Stuttgart at the end of August . |
| 23 | He has lifted his profits forecast for this year slightly to £950 million and expects a 15 per cent rise in the dividend . |
| 24 | He had no clear idea what he was going to do but expected a good gathering at Linley 's house and thought an opportunity would occur . |
| 25 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 26 | The eighteen-person PS'Soft unit sells only in France at present , but expects a UK outlet to be established soon . |
| 27 | In 1976 , the government pegged the grant for future years to the 1975 level in real terms , while expecting a comparable service to be maintained . |
| 28 | Power Chess is as expected a computer implementation of the famous strategic board game . |
| 29 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 30 | Her lips were satisfyingly full , tensed to one side as though expecting a blow at any moment . |