Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no good looking to schools and expecting them to solve all the problems . ’ |
| 2 | The King model of pediplanation provided a framework for an interpretation of the vegetation patterns of the savannas of the southern hemisphere and in a series of papers Cole ( e.g. 1963 ) reviewed the climatic , edaphic and morphologic controls upon the types of savanna vegetation and concluded that the broad vegetation patterns related to the age of landsurfaces as expected from the King pediplanation model . |
| 3 | There are enough end-users that expect more from their manufacturers than just supply of hardware ’ . |
| 4 | He says Microsoft now has 45,000 NT developer kits in the field in twenty countries and expects to have 50,000 out just prior to launch . |
| 5 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 6 | While remaining guarded about the exact type of operation Shadowfax is considering , the partners are currently looking at sites and expect to open the first one within the year . |
| 7 | FT-Actuaries World Indices are now produced and we are currently reviewing the operation of these indices and expect to produce revised rules and methods during the current year . |
| 8 | Dismissing the Pittencrieff bid , Aberdeen 's London-based managing director , David Hooker , said : ‘ We remain convinced that the smaller oil and gas companies should consolidate to add value for shareholders and expect to arrange a meeting with Pittencrieff in the near future . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't like the way he just snapped his fingers and expected her to follow . |
| 10 | Expatriates are usually on short contracts and expect to achieve a lot quickly . |
| 11 | Countries like Brazil , Mexico or Tanzania ca n't simply write checks in cruzados , pesos or shillings and expect their creditors to be happy . |
| 12 | The criminal justice system projects itself above social conflicts and expects to be recognized as fair and just because it is guided by universal principles that transcend sectional interests . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ But you simply can not make tackling errors at crucial times and expect to win . ’ |
| 15 | " In any art festival it is difficult to have fee expression by the artists and expect it to appeal to all the different social groups . " |
| 16 | The canal route was dark and it was deep and it was a secret vein that ran through the heart of the city , and only the scum dropped down here after hours and expected to survive . |
| 17 | We have invited six major consultancies to submit proposals and expect one of these to be selected , and work to begin , in January . |
| 18 | The spectra of solid samples often contain more bands than expected on the basis of the molecular symmetry of single , isolated molecules . |
| 19 | The Scottish Cricket Union 's director , Jim Love , has been overwhelmed by applications and expects around 80 people to have gone through basic award courses by May , writes Keith Graham . |
| 20 | The mother who lives only through her children will face an empty future , for she is losing touch with the source of her own life , identifying with her creations and expecting them to sustain her . |
| 21 | On this particular tour they were based in Chicago for seven weeks and expected to see gangsters shooting on the sidewalks every minute . |
| 22 | ‘ They are saying to the council that they 've got to listen to how their employees and the public feel , and not to impose the cuts of central government on their workers and expect them to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 23 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library not just a university library , can do with its own computer , and most of our most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 24 | However , my own interest , perhaps , is more in what a library , a typical library — not just a university library can do with its own computer , and most of our readers , most of the people who use libraries , expect to find books in those libraries and expect to find them when they want them , and our interests have been angled very much towards improving that sort of service . |
| 25 | Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years . |
| 26 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 27 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 28 | ‘ There are not as many nuclear power stations as expected , there is more uranium than was thought , and the fast-breeder reactors which used the reprocessed fuel have been abandoned as a failure . |
| 29 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 30 | He still visits Ipswich Hospital each week for dressing changes and expects to be back at work in about five weeks . |