Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I think of my previous existence — of all I thought I could reasonably expect of the rest of my life , an allowed place at the extreme corner of someone 's drawing-room carpet , a Servant 's garret or no better , I give thanks for every little thing , which is unspeakably dear to me . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , beggin' your pardon , ma 'm , but with a name like Queen 's Old Castle I could hardly expect you to like it . ’ |
| 4 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 5 | ‘ I could hardly expect her to eat alone , ’ I said . |
| 6 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 7 | The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal . |
| 8 | ‘ I would normally expect to put in about 1,000 hours on a case . |
| 9 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 10 | I would therefore expect that at the time of the next recession , markets will be much less vulnerable to cost-cutting . |
| 11 | All I would say is that , when the plan reaches modification stage , the Department will be looking at that the situation very closely indeed , and at that stage I would fully expect that even though I wo n't be here to do it myself , as I shall have retired by that stage , |
| 12 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 13 | I believe there are enough pictures to represent this School adequately in three collections , as I would naturally expect the best of post-World War I British pictures to be present in the new Modern Art Museum . |
| 14 | But by extrapolation , I can reasonably expect to find a third of the British insect fauna . |
| 15 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 16 | " I hate to cut you short , " said Richard from the hatch , " it 's only that I can hardly expect my staff to be in time if I 'm late myself . " |
| 17 | But , with the Great War looming , the future will be harsher than any of them could ever expect … |
| 18 | You may also expect more love and support than of late . |
| 19 | If you travel in the Arctic you must never expect to succeed every time . |
| 20 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 21 | At the very best they would dismiss her , as Miss Ernestine Baker had done , with an icy reminder that she must never expect to work in Frizingley again . |
| 22 | In the situation where the family member is married to the primary sufferer , the family member may tolerate progressive destruction of all that he or she should reasonably expect from married life . |
| 23 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |
| 24 | As you might well expect , Microsoft Windows played a key role at the COMDEX exhibition , a single section of which was dedicated to the largest ever demonstration of third-party Windows applications . |
| 25 | For all of this , you might well expect to pay a premium price , but with a recommended price of £149 , which is very likely to be discounted to under the £100 mark , DesignWorks lies in the ‘ affordable ’ bracket . |
| 26 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |
| 27 | No hint that she was about to walk into the last surprise party that she could ever expect to see . |
| 28 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 29 | He found the service ‘ exceptionally good ’ , but added : ‘ You have to expect that when the cricket is on you do n't quite get the service you 'd normally expect because they 've all got a radio stuck in their pocket and the ear-piece stuck in their ear . ’ |
| 30 | You 'd hardly expect it to rely on a laboratory analysis of the ingredients to assess the flavour . |