Example sentences of "[pers pn] expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 2 | I expect restaurateurs will be itching to copy Jean-Paul Gaultier 's extraordinary staff uniform with the fork epaulette , but the rest of the details are ingredients for thought only . |
| 3 | And now every time I see an advert , or just anything , I expect things to explode . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I expect things will get stirred up pretty soon now that the Admiral 's back in town , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 6 | His share was a good quarter of the capital provided for the voyage , so I expect returns . ’ |
| 7 | " I expect Manners 'ud like to do the same . " |
| 8 | By the third day I expect third-years to work alone , and if you slip up , gal , I 'll have your guts for garters ! |
| 9 | As an author , I expect reviewers to be honest and objective . |
| 10 | After all , football left leather behind long ago , but I expect cricketers will be up in arms about this suggestion . |
| 11 | When he smiles , you expect fangs , and there they are , rows and rows of sharp white teeth . |
| 12 | ‘ We expect EDS will take part in its future development and hope they can help in bringing down its processing costs , ’ Hjoth concluded . |
| 13 | We expect products that sell to go on selling . |
| 14 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 15 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
| 16 | ‘ And we expect others to keep coming forward . ’ |
| 17 | Now we expect operators to identify the root cause and make the problem go away themselves , ’ said factory systems manager . |
| 18 | With their conveniences and their pleasant facades , the two cottages justify her affirmation , which exactly echoes Loudon 's own conviction , that ‘ Life in cottages might be happier than ours , if they were real houses fit for human beings from whom we expect duties and affections . ’ |
| 19 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 20 | We expect prices to start rising in the late summer or autumn . ’ |
| 21 | We expect surgeries to be open certain hours , and for you to undertake certain preventative health measures for all your patients whether they normally come to the surgery or not . |
| 22 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 23 | In this context , the phrase ‘ higher learning ’ is particularly helpful , because it prompts us to ask whether in higher education there is anything especially ‘ higher ’ about the learning we expect students to achieve . |
| 24 | Simply that in higher education , we expect students to go beyond the material they encompass and to form their own affinity with it . |
| 25 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 26 | We expect candidates to communicate effectively — but will not be looking for perfect Business English . |
| 27 | On the whole we expect opportunities to start paying off very quickly . |
| 28 | … we expect books to generate ideas for exploration , we try to choose books that will challenge and ask questions of our brightest children and yet provide an accessible experience for the weakest . |
| 29 | After all , we expect cuts to heal themselves , broken bones to knit , colds to clear . |
| 30 | Normal language states are not uniform , and in vernacular ( non-standardized ) states we expect alternations and other kinds of variation to exist . |