Example sentences of "to expect people " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 2 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 3 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 4 | In many instances , however , it would be unreasonable to expect people to be readily able to articulate the rules which guide their behaviour . |
| 5 | But to expect people to live reasonably is like asking them to live on paregoric . ’ |
| 6 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 7 | It is ridiculous to expect people to put on hard hats to walk through the countryside . |