Example sentences of "expect a [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You still have to be on top of your stuff , though — judges expect a certain level of competence to staging a little-girl-lost act in court will do no good whatsoever . |
| 2 | Event organisers , The Ivory Tower , in association with ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ Steam Locomotive Trust and Crewe Heritage Centre , expect a large number of visitors and supporters to come and cheer them on . |
| 3 | ‘ Our customers expect a high level of knowledge . |
| 4 | This increase seems to be part of a broader social trend in which clients increasingly expect a high quality of service from professional people . |
| 5 | You expect a whole speech of explanation . |
| 6 | Find one in good condition and it will give endless pleasure but , being an old design , expect a fair amount of maintenance . |
| 7 | Ferry lines expect a huge rush of passengers taking advantage of the new freedom . |
| 8 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 9 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 10 | Very few professional men then could expect a net income of £2,000 a year by the age of forty . |
| 11 | Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ? |
| 12 | What appalling style , even twenty years ago one could expect a better standard of English . |
| 13 | Thus , one might expect a similar kind of opening of the iron-free structure to expose charged ligands and to allow entrance of ferrous ions . |
| 14 | If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that . |
| 15 | For example , scales a tritone or a semitone apart have only two notes in common ; all other notes are different , and so one can expect a considerable degree of conflict unless ( as in the Bartók example ) adequate vertical consonance can be maintained . |
| 16 | Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success . |
| 17 | The level of tuition fees charged to students gives them the right to expect a professional standard of service , particularly with regard to test-marking ; the Education Service is judged , to a considerable extent , by that criterion . |
| 18 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 19 | Even homeless people have a right to expect a reasonable standard of accomodation . |
| 20 | There are signs that users may come to expect a reasonable tolerance of miskeyings from any interactive computer system . |
| 21 | In that case , there is no reason to expect a general form of explanation linking our cognitive faculties to the truth , explaining the reliability of our natural abductive sense . |
| 22 | The book is set in the 1940s and this is how things were then , so to expect a different kind of portrayal would be unreasonable . |
| 23 | It is also possible that late nineteenth and early twentieth-century working class women expected a greater degree of drunkenness and violence on the part of husbands than would be tolerated today . |
| 24 | Melissa half expected a vigorous defence of Dora 's protective friendship , but the reaction was precisely the opposite . |
| 25 | If we are expecting a good level of practice from proprietors , whether private proprietors or statutory , then we have not to expect them to be out of pocket at the end of the day as a result . |
| 26 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |
| 27 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 28 | These parties of mine have become something of an institution , and I am expecting a large number of people to come in and give their comments on the results in various constituencies . |
| 29 | Hence the Council expects a significant proportion of staff involved in teaching of courses leading to its awards to be engaged in research ; moreover , colleges are expected to provide a high standard of specialized accommodation , library provision , academic , technical and administrative staff and good working conditions generally . |
| 30 | The company expects a steady flow of orders follow ing recent decisions by the West German government to participate in various space efforts and several European military-aircraft projects . |