Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless the bench will in practice expect consent orders , orders for custody and access and injunctive orders to have been prepared beforehand , and to be put up to the bench for approval . |
| 2 | The other men were standing well to one side expecting violence and the soldier finished his cigarette and put his hands into his pockets instead of holding them high . |
| 3 | One would of course expect library authorities with large establishments to spend more on training , and as Table 12 indicates , this is broadly true , though with two large libraries spending under £3,000 and four smaller libraries spending over £3,000 , it is not an inevitable relationship , as the authority ‘ training profiles ’ in Appendix 3 also clearly indicate . |
| 4 | Fruit juices contain natural sugars anyway , so added sugar may only have the effect of making your child expect oversweet drinks . |
| 5 | There was a policeman at the bottom of the bed , so perhaps it was a silly question to expect Charley to answer . |
| 6 | Sun expects Dragon to plough through the logjam holding back diffident customers from committing to Unix because pricey Unix servers ca n't handle the load . |
| 7 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 8 | Hall expects 50% of Sun Commonwealth of Independent States business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 9 | Hall expects 50% of Sun CIS business to come from Moscow and its surrounds . |
| 10 | The Engineering Council expects registrants to adhere to good engineering practice wherever and whenever possible and considers that this Code of Professional Practice will assist registrants in achieving this standard . |
| 11 | But the council expects coal use to increase sharply as oil and gas reserves run out , leading to the exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves by the end of the next century . |
| 12 | Nor had he for one moment expected Wang to offer another shipment . |
| 13 | The Qatar News Agency quoted an unidentified Islamic Jihad spokesman as saying that his group expected Israel " to reciprocate by releasing another group of Arab prisoners " . |
| 14 | The group expected Charman to be upset but they were taken aback at his extreme response . |
| 15 | That was the rarest of murders and Rain expected Maurin knew it , too . |
| 16 | When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy . |
| 17 | This is clearly undesirable for the nurse , the staff , and most of all the patient , who has a right to expect expert care and attention . |
| 18 | I AM not worried by the tactics of the Tory Whips during the Maastricht debate because any government has the right to expect members elected on its manifesto to push its business through the House . |
| 19 | Parents can abuse their right to expect obedience . |
| 20 | On the other hand heads have every right to expect staff to be well groomed and reasonably dressed at work . |
| 21 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 22 | CHIP GURUS EXPECT INSTRUCTION RATES TO DOUBLE BY 1995 |
| 23 | Dishonesty is also brought out in this scene , when the Duke expects Shylock to forgive Antonio in line 23 ‘ which is a pound of this poor merchant 's flesh , thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture , but touch with human gentleness and love , Forgive a moiety of the principal ; ’ . |
| 24 | Smith New Court expects AMI 's profits to have reached £20.5m in the year just ended with £24.5m likely this year . |
| 25 | InfoCorp expects shipments of multiuser systems with an average selling price between $15,000 and $1m to grow from 509,000 units in 1992 to 643,000 units in 1997 — a compound annual growth rate of 6% . |
| 26 | The Chancellor said the European Commission expected Britain to be the fastest growing of all the major European economies , this year and next . |
| 27 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 28 | Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos . |
| 29 | It was , he said , beyond belief to expect pensioners to chip in to help flood victims . |
| 30 | A ‘ chew and choke ’ was a transport cafe and the ‘ Bears ’ meant the police , but it was no use expecting Danny to use plain English on a rig . |