Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the coming months I expect to see the Inland Revenue , the Customs and Excise and the DTI increasingly at work in an area ripe for their activities . |
| 2 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 3 | But fans who expected the maestro to run through all of his favourites were disappointed . |
| 4 | The changed role of the nurse from being carer , provider and giver of advice and direction is also new for Community Mothers and clients who expect nurses to operate from their traditional professional role and to have all the answers , and deal with all the problems . |
| 5 | As readers we expect such a persona to describe a scene , dramatise some situation , and express feelings . |
| 6 | Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home . |
| 7 | Another monument to him is in the main square of the city of Cebu in the central Philippines , a canopy with the kind of gaudy murals one expects in this flamboyant tropic city . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The other one of the , one of the things that people find very difficult , the learning all the words they expect you to know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 15 | Fault-tolerant Unix system builder , Sequoia Systems Inc , is going after the health care market in collaboration with its partner — Hewlett-Packard — and DataTree and Greystone Technology as the first of several vertical sectors it expects to pursue . |
| 16 | Over the next 12 months he expects the three to sell at least 10 systems solutions n the UK . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
| 18 | ‘ The second biggest software company is Novell and on the server , which is one of the areas I expect NT will be very successful , they have a very high market share . |
| 19 | He disapproves of bribery : ‘ Children do n't need to be saddled with the nagging aspirations of parents who expect little Johnny to do everything they did plus everything they did n't manage to do . ’ |
| 20 | said : ‘ We are audited on a regular basis by the major pharmaceutical companies who expect us to match FDA standards . |
| 21 | You should have some reasonable figure in here , given the speed of your VAX and the size of the QA activities you expect to be requested . |
| 22 | Experimenters who expected their subjects to be brighter behaved differently towards the rats and thus affected the rats ' learning abilities . |
| 23 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 24 | Of the courses that were specifically described as management training , 67% of them were carried out by libraries who expected an above average number of programmes for the coming year , who themselves comprised 27% of the sample . |
| 25 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 26 | Kora music like this is indifferent to the West 's fashions , carries none of the messages we expect to hear . |
| 27 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Aiming at corporate accounts , ICL claims these versions of OfficePower , along with implementations on other Unix platforms expected to be announced in the coming months , will account for over 70% of new licences for the software by the end of 1993 , by its reckoning some 140,000 out of 200,000 new seats it expects to win between now and then . |
| 30 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |