Example sentences of "not [be] expect [to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Association would regard the professional responsibilities of the librarian to include full discretion over the acquisitions made by the library service within the terms of the general guidelines laid down by an employer : in the case of public libraries these guidelines should not be expected to allow local censorship . |
| 2 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
| 3 | The left argued that children who speak dialect at home could not be expected to speak Standard English , which they regarded as middle class , and that it was improper to make this an essential attainment target in a national curriculum . |
| 4 | Over one thousand qualified , committed and underpaid young men and women can not be expected to exercise greater patience . |
| 5 | The market can not be expected to exercise self- restraint — this is the duty of government . |
| 6 | While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career . |
| 7 | It is not right to assume that those in inner-city areas can not be expected to achieve good examination results . |
| 8 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |