Example sentences of "to expect any " in BNC.

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1 But with grown-ups there is nothing to expect any more .
2 She flew back to Lima and wrote to all her clients telling them not to expect any more craft goods : she was quitting and going to work in the jungle .
3 Second , although there is no reason to expect any model to be other than linear and additive , there is an argument , presented by Flowerdew ( 1988 ) , which says that since the response variable compromises count data , the appropriate regression model should combine a Poisson error distribution with an identity link function ( see Aitkin et al. 1989 ; 217 ) .
4 It is quite hopeless to expect any news which they are either not ready nor sufficiently interested to share .
5 ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’
6 It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life .
7 The company is out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any real deliveries until at least October .
8 The company has been out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any serious deliveries at least until October .
9 The study identifies few holdings where the occupiers could claim ‘ primary dependence on farming as a livelihood ’ , and that there was no valid reason for those farmers to expect any benefit from the CAP .
10 While it may be too much to expect the applicant to appreciate the wider impact and implications of his proposal , and while it may be unreasonable to expect any but the most steadfast defender of National Park principles to resist continual local pressure for change , CPRW hopes that this Inquiry will enable a more far- sighted view of what is at stake , to prevail .
11 She suddenly remembered that she had n't thought to offer him a tip — although , unlike the awful Elise , he had n't seemed to expect any payment .
12 It is impractical to expect any party to draw trouble on himself by notifying the other of a potential claim .
13 For if we have no reason to believe that any more of the debts will be paid during the intervals of peace , than have hitherto been : Nay the whole of the Sinking Fund , by such an increased debt , becoming absolutely anticipated , together with numbers of additional oppressive taxes , we have less reason to expect any of the old debts to be discharged , as we go on contracting of new .
14 This time , however , Baghdad had no reason to expect any such present .
15 It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more .
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