anticipate - use in sentences

Object

  • objection: Students must develop an argument on the basis of prior case law and principle that supports their side, and anticipate objections and counter-arguments.
  • comeback: Those whose sites get de-indexed anticipate a major comeback.
  • trend: The result is a collection for boys & girls who anticipate trends and are projected into the future.
  • demand: No one can accurately anticipate demand over a typical 25 year PFI contract.
  • difficulty: I anticipate difficulties depositing my dataset, how do I overcome them?

Preposition: at

  • outset: To have anticipated at the outset of the research process that such issues might arise would have saved hours of complex editing.

Preposition: that

  • majority: It is anticipated that the majority of our trainees will still come from Bristol.
  • candidate: It is anticipated that the successful candidate will be able to make the step up to Managing Planner in the near future.
  • trainee: It is not anticipated that the F1 trainee will have out of hour's on-call commitments.

Adjective complement

  • due: The rucksacks are priced at £ 5.00 - slightly higher than previously anticipated due to the addition of more road safety features.

Modifying Another Word

  • eagerly: Gunners game off The eagerly anticipated home meeting of the Charlton women's team with title rivals Arsenal next Thursday has been postponed.
  • hotly: Despite new releases from Oasis and Foo Fighters, Coldplay ' s ' X&Y ' is the most hotly anticipated release of 2005.
  • keenly: It is anticipated keenly by many of us in those rural areas.
  • highly: Born Romantic, David Kane's highly anticipated follow up to UK hit This Year's Love closes the festival.
  • originally: Duration of the exposure was originally anticipated to last for a period of 10-12 months for retrieval in early 1985.

Used with why or when

  • where: Dangers to felling operatives must be anticipated especially where chain saws are to be used.
  • when: Maybe this couldn't have been known nor anticipated when the original quote was made.

Infinitive complement

  • commence: Testing of this final interval is anticipated to commence later this week.

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