Example sentences of "[adj] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 4 August 1914 few expected the war to last long — a matter of weeks , perhaps , or months at the longest . |
| 2 | When thwarted he would rage , shutting his eyes tight , opening his mouth and holding his breath before letting out a bellow of such terrifying power that Neil half expected the whole of Lydsett to come running to see which of them was tormenting the child . |
| 3 | When he removed the thumb from his lips , Jackie half expected the puffiness to subside with a gush of escaping air . |
| 4 | Party officials half expected the trade talks to break down eventually , at which point Mr Abe would make his entrance . |
| 5 | I still half expect the food to be doped . |
| 6 | Bankers would be foolish to expect the Bank of Japan to improve their spreads by cutting the official discount rate ( ODR ) again if the economy fails to recover as quickly as many now expect . |
| 7 | Government departments are now so vast that it is unrealistic to expect a minister to know all about matters of administration . |
| 8 | That is why commercial organisations are avoided if at all possible since it is quite unrealistic to expect a manufacturer to comment critically on his own product or not to view a rival 's product with a jaundiced eye . |
| 9 | The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme . |
| 10 | Here again it is unrealistic to expect the law of any state to list modes of service which are not allowed ; the policy of the authors of the draft that only a positive prohibition should ‘ stand in the way of granting a request for service ’ gives inadequate weight to the interests of the state of destination . |
| 11 | In the case of a young child it is unrealistic to expect the child to comply with the supervisor 's directions without the co-operation and commitment of the person caring for him . |
| 12 | It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings . |
| 13 | It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State , in the letter he sent to all hon. Members , said that it would be unrealistic to expect the removal of all differences between brewers and their tenants . |
| 15 | In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’ |
| 16 | In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’ |
| 17 | I believe it is unrealistic to expect the community care reforms to transform services according to the wishes of service users . |
| 18 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 19 | Rodo glanced confusedly up at the ceiling , half expecting the roof to collapse in on him . |
| 20 | So it may be asking too much to expect a re-rating . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 23 | In circumstances of group disorder , in particular , it may be quite impractical to expect the constable to issue a request for the actor to desist before making his arrest . |
| 24 | It was not possible to expect the group to act with ‘ responsible autonomy ’ — to be self-regulating — because of the elaborate division of labour . |
| 25 | It 's absurd to expect a heron to behave like a blackbird ! " |
| 26 | For Simeon Kokhba , it would have been perfectly natural to expect the adherents of an earlier Messiah — the rightful king dedicated to freeing his country from the Roman yoke — to aid him in just such an enterprise . |
| 27 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 28 | It is unfair to expect an adult dog to appreciate that such actions are no longer welcomed if you have allowed them since it was a puppy . |
| 29 | Troops loyal to the breakaway faction , led militarily from the town of Nasir , on the Ethiopian border , by Cdr Riek Machar , are now on alert expecting an attack from the town of Malakal ‘ at any time ’ , Dr Akol said . |
| 30 | They all expect the Government 's public sector borrowing requirement to rise in the coming financial year to anywhere between £40 billion and £55 billion , and interest rates by the end of 1993 to range from 4.5 per cent to the current 6 per cent . |