Example sentences of "[noun pl] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Orcs expect Goblins to run away and it does n't really surprise them when this happens .
2 Dictionary authors expect users to perform regular morphological processing themselves .
3 Parents expect schools to sort out a lot of problems which are not school problems , ’ says one .
4 ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely .
5 Buyers expect salespeople to be business-like in their personal appearance and behaviour .
6 Customs expects companies to be able to satisfactorily explain why — and has incorporated into the Intrastat system an optional means of so doing .
7 Most clinics treating fertility problems expect nurses to be the counsellor .
8 Domestic prices , only three regions expect prices to increase by a meaningful amount .
9 Yet when Professor Lester Williams as an educationist addressed the American Library Association conference on " What the school expects of the school librarian " there was something of a ring of novelty in his style when ( after the usual platitudes about " the library as a workshop " ) he went on : " Teachers expect librarians to act as a service agency in providing and dispensing all manner of instructional aids , such as phonograph records , clippings of fleeting materials , films , slides , pictures …
10 Throughout the Plowden Report runs the assumption that what is taught in schools ( ie what we , the adults expect children to learn ) must relate to where the child is ( intellectually , social , emotionally ) rather than to where we think the child ought to be .
11 Er I wonder if there is in fact er a a view that women expect men to have of them that 's th the desirable woman ?
12 This is approaching the temperature below which theoreticians expect atoms to fuse together in a new kind of matter .
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