Example sentences of "not expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
2 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
3 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
4 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
5 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
6 | But do n't expect the unassuming islander to back you up on that view . |
7 | He does n't expect us to succeed , but on the other hand he does n't expect the German attack to succeed , either . |