Example sentences of "[adj] expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |
| 2 | It was accepted from the outset of the study that it would be unrealistic to expect changes to be made overnight , and that a gradual evolution to the desired state would be necessary . |
| 3 | Thus , it would be unrealistic to expect officials to be responsive to the market when their traditional activity has been conditioned by the need to follow statutes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is too much to expect musicians to deliberately cast aside the fringe benefits of success . |
| 6 | It is inappropriate to act as though consensus exists ( or should exist ) over good practice , and doubly inappropriate to expect conformity to a particular version of it . |
| 7 | We all expect others to be like ourselves . |
| 8 | Discouraged , Jinny bent to her picking , telling herself that she was stupid to expect faces at the window or dramatic voices calling . |
| 9 | ( iv ) Time limits.In assessing the reasonableness of clauses which require compliance with procedural requirements , such as imposing time limits on notification of claims , the court will consider whether , at the time the contract was made , it was reasonable to expect compliance with the term . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it would be unwise to expect managers of publicly owned firms to act in the selfless way modelled above . |
| 11 | It is not to be confused with various autobiographies but those expecting warts to be exposed will be disappointed . |
| 12 | In many instances , however , it would be unreasonable to expect people to be readily able to articulate the rules which guide their behaviour . |
| 13 | But it was crazy to expect oddness from the day to match her own . |
| 14 | Lord Hope , the Lord Justice-General , said : ‘ Banks in this country and their employees are entitled to expect support from the court and they will receive that support . |