Example sentences of "[noun sg] expect [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a policeman at the bottom of the bed , so perhaps it was a silly question to expect Charley to answer . |
| 2 | Nor had he for one moment expected Wang to offer another shipment . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | The group expected Charman to be upset but they were taken aback at his extreme response . |
| 5 | That was the rarest of murders and Rain expected Maurin knew it , too . |
| 6 | 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 ; ’ . |
| 7 | Smith New Court expects AMI 's profits to have reached £20.5m in the year just ended with £24.5m likely this year . |
| 8 | The Chancellor said the European Commission expected Britain to be the fastest growing of all the major European economies , this year and next . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Grove expects Intel to invest $1,600m on capital equipment this year . |
| 11 | The firm expects Europe to contribute another 10% in revenues by the end of the year . |
| 12 | HP expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple platforms is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State expects LEAs to give a ‘ clear and explicit ’ ( 1988b ) basis for devising or amending a resource-allocation formula so that all concerned understand exactly how it operates . |
| 14 | The Yacht Division expects Tri-Lux II to grow into a product with sales worth $2–3 million a year . |
| 15 | Stage : Pre Draft Deposit consultation expected June/July 1992 . |
| 16 | ‘ Some people I spoke to during the summer expected New Zealand and Australia to be beaten , then France twice and finally us . |
| 17 | If so , there is no reason to expect Novell to keep subsidizing Unix out of altruism . |
| 18 | If so , there is no reason to expect Novell to keep subsidizing Unix out of altruism . ’ |
| 19 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at Mips Technologies Inc . |
| 20 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at MIPS Technologies Inc : he apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of MIPS ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc ; he would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks that it will market low-cost MIPS R-series workstations made by OEM suppliers . |
| 21 | For some reason , the public expected Diana to be with him wherever he went . |
| 22 | But at least one minister expected Hunt to take a different line . |
| 23 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 24 | I mean , how short did Dad expect Roge 's memory to be ? |
| 25 | The company expects OEMs to start delivering Solaris 2.1-based systems the beginning of the second quarter . |