Example sentences of "[conj] expect [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he did n't like something , he 'd let the musicians know exactly what he wanted or expected from them . |
| 2 | Many who are required to study social policy are , or expect to be , involved in its implementation . |
| 3 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 4 | As the TOM allows investors to avoid purchasing shares , the higher the actual and expected levels of interest rates the greater the incentive to use options and delay the acquisition of shares in order to benefit from the rates of return prevailing or expected in the money markets . |
| 5 | Section 3 provides : ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , a person who , knowing that payment on the spot for any goods supplied or service done is required or expected from him , dishonestly makes off without having paid as required or expected and with intent to avoid payment of the amount due shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 6 | And you know , as we come and submit ourselves to God , and as we look back , whether it 's back on a day , on a week , on a month , on year , on a lifetime , he has given to us far , far more than we could ever have asked or expected from him ! , as the apostle said , he is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think ! |
| 7 | They have least to offer the family in return for all the help and support they may need or expect in return . |
| 8 | Detection in the heteroplasmic strain of a new transcript whose size matched that expected of the fusion transcript indicated that the deleted genomes were indeed transcribed . |
| 9 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 10 | There is no classical explanation for the slowing down ; however , the rate of energy loss is exactly that expected via gravitational radiation . |
| 11 | Output is thus affected by the deviation of the price level from both that expected by workers in period t - 1 and in period t - 2 . |
| 12 | It leaves out the whole class of voluntary obligations where no such change occurs , such as promises which are not relied upon , nor expected to be relied upon . |
| 13 | Bassoonists presumably neither want nor expect to be anything but bassoonists . |
| 14 | The coup was apparently neither instigated nor expected by the Soviet authorities , and it brought a regime to power which was bitterly divided by factional differences . |
| 15 | A CONFEDERATION of British Industry survey out this morning shows that new orders and output among small manufacturing firms have declined at a greater rate than expected since July . |
| 16 | The spectra of solid samples often contain more bands than expected on the basis of the molecular symmetry of single , isolated molecules . |
| 17 | If unions or individuals bargain for , and receive , wages on the basis of an expected rate of inflation that does not occur , then real wages will be higher or lower than expected over the period of the bargain . |
| 18 | A weight loss of only 1 lb ( 0.4 kg ) in the previous week ( less than expected for the effort put in ) . |
| 19 | Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 . |
| 20 | It took much longer than expected for the population to be reduced by deaths , occasional discharges and transfers to new units . |
| 21 | Survival curves were identical for patients who were and were not operated on and were only slightly worse than expected for the general population matched for age . |
| 22 | Inevitably this procedure , in the early years , worked less than smoothly , with budgets drawn up hurriedly under the pressure of reorganisation , and the Ministry being quite glad on occasion if they were exceeded , since this simply meant that the industry had achieved more than expected with limited physical resources . |
| 23 | It made 50 per cent more than expected at £5.5m and every lot was sold . |
| 24 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 25 | SHARES in Waste Management International , the waste disposal group being floated in London by its American parent , were priced a shade lower than expected at 585p yesterday , before jumping to 612p on the grey market . |
| 26 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 27 | President Bush has won the New Hampshire Republican primary by a narrower margin than expected after tough competition from the Right-winger , Pat Buchanan . |
| 28 | The prevalence reported among first degree relatives seems to be much higher than expected from the prevalence in the background populations . |
| 29 | We report here that ganglion cells near the fovea were allocated 3.3 to 5.9 times more cortical tissue than more peripheral ones , and conclude that the cortical representation of the most central retina is much greater than expected from the density of its ganglion cells . |
| 30 | Unemployment was higher than expected by 3 per cent or more at Ulster ( 5.5 ) , Liverpool and Queen Mary College , London ( both 4.8 ) , East Anglia ( 3.4 ) and Sheffield , Aberystwyth and the London School of Economics ( all 3.2 ) . |