Example sentences of "[pron] expects [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | anyone who expects this book to be a treatise on the history of landscape painting will be disappointed … in spite of copious rewriting , lectures these pages remain . |
| 2 | Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues . |
| 3 | If one buys a house near a railway line , one expects some disturbance from it , and that is a factor which will no doubt be reflected in the price . |
| 4 | No one expects this rump of a service to be viable . |
| 5 | Anyone who is offering a proposal that requires a " yes " effort should be clear as to why he expects that effort to be made . |
| 6 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 7 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |