Example sentences of "expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also meant that all political structures , especially the less specialized and differentiated ones found in Third World states , could be expected to perform additional functions to those which were their main raison d'être . |
| 2 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 3 | ‘ We ca n't be expected to wait six weeks for another good performance . ’ |
| 4 | The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are expected to impose strict conditions on any aid . |
| 5 | Hence , they might both have expected to receive considerable support from such sources . |
| 6 | The extent of royal jurisdiction varied enormously : at one extreme lay Roger II , the would-be autocrat , uttering absolutist doctrines out of Justinian ; or the English king , who , however tied by custom , had effective control both of the king 's court , which retained a wide jurisdiction and was capable , under Henry II , of rapid expansion , and over the old popular courts of the shire and , where they had not fallen into private hands , of the hundred ; at the other extreme was the German king , much of whose jurisdiction had been delegated to the ecclesiastical immunities , and equally much was slipping , in the twelfth century , into princely hands ; or the French king , who was expected to do high justice to all who came , but received comparatively few callers from outside the royal domain . |
| 7 | For example , a child who has difficulty perceiving pictorial materials may be expected to have considerable difficulties with any test which uses pictures as part of the elicitation procedure for reasons other than poor linguistic ability . |
| 8 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
| 9 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
| 10 | That would remove the enormous burden which was facing local councils who were expected to compile detailed maps of all the land in their boundaries showing whether it might be contaminated . |
| 11 | The ( re ) privatisation of agriculture is a major development in much of eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union , and the study is expected to throw valuable light on this development . |
| 12 | Advertised to operate on Sundays and Bank Holidays , the routing of certain buses is expected to bring extra revenue to both parties , plus the added convenience to passengers alike . |
| 13 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 14 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 15 | Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that . |
| 16 | I cos quite frankly I have never heard such an exciting R S P C A man as that last one so I do n't expect to get much response to that . |
| 17 | Two new stores have opened already and we are expecting to achieve stronger results in all area . |