Example sentences of "[pron] expects [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in Japan only one senior figure is to stand trial ; nobody expects a referendum . |
| 3 | Nobody expects a paragon of virtue but the nurse is meant to be realistic , is meant to have self-knowledge because the ‘ self ’ must be used in the relationship . |
| 4 | That cost will now be shared with MCI , which expects the venture to be profitable after two years . |
| 5 | Offer her one hundred , Mr Palmer , and do n't bother me again if she expects a penny more . ’ |
| 6 | Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures . |
| 7 | The ward sister can explain what she expects the nurse to learn during the allocation , and can set objectives . |
| 8 | Today she expects the delivery man will bring her customary greeting from the Queen . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , most studies expect that such policies will result in a cut in the growth of global GDP ( none expects an increase ) . |
| 10 | Election Focus : Labour Boyo Tactics James Langton watches the remarkable transformation of Neil the Wild Man of the Valleys into Kinnock the Man You Can Trust , a figure of international standing who expects the key to Number 10 |
| 11 | One expects a child who mastered four notes in his first week to master four more in the second ; a child who has achieved doggy-paddle with both feet off the bottom to progress logically to breaststroke . |
| 12 | No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies . |
| 13 | Normally one expects the individual to acquire a structure then practise it until he achieves competence in it in communication ; but the input hypothesis says the opposite is true : in order to acquire structure , we first need to deal with meaning . |
| 14 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 15 | Stuff of nightmares No one expects the life of a Peruvian gold prospector to be easy , but I doubt if many would expect to die from the bite of a rabid vampire bat . |
| 16 | No one expects the petition to amend the indenture to Barnes ' will to get a court hearing before June . |
| 17 | He expects a ruling from Ian Lang , Secretary of State for Scotland , on the proposals by the end of this month . |
| 18 | Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more . |
| 19 | He expects a place in a Labour cabinet : Chief Whip for a short time , perhaps , then a portfolio of his own ‘ something where I could really help the North . ’ |
| 20 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 21 | Cruising at 150–185 mph , he expects the circumnavigation to take five and a half days . |
| 22 | If he expects the price of dollars — the exchange rate — in the spot market to be the same as the current forward price , then a rational agent would be indifferent between the transactions under certain conditions . |
| 23 | He expects the journey of three thousand miles to take up to a month . |
| 24 | He expects the jump from county to Test cricket to be another step up in terms of bowling and concentration . |
| 25 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
| 26 | He expects the demerger to be an accomplished fact by the beginning of next June . |
| 27 | McCaw Cellular Communications Inc chairman Craig McCaw says talks are continuing with AT&T Co on an expected June signing of the deal for AT&T to acquire 33% of McCaw : he expects the deal to be completed by year-end 1993 at the latest ; issues still under discussion include how to resolve the future of the Cellular One marketing brand name , which McCaw shares with Southwestern Bell Corp ; McCaw will use AT&T 's name and it will have access to the skills of Bell Laboratories . |
| 28 | He expects the effort to eliminate duplicated research and development efforts and allow resources to be transferred to the development of middleware technologies . |
| 29 | While he could provide no time scale for this , he did say that he expects the business to grow at 20% per annum . |
| 30 | Their routine is quite demanding and in some ways it expects a level of determination on the part of the rehabilitee that would probably be high enough to get him back to work without a course of formal rehabilitation . |