Example sentences of "[adv] expect a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
2 | In Nottingham city centre you 'll find space to park at the Broadmarsh Centre and Fletchergate you wo n't have to queue for the Victoria Centre car park but Trinity Square that 's proving to be fairly busy so expect a short wait to park there . |
3 | Trinity Square still proving to be very busy so expect a few minutes wait if you want to get yourself parked in there and have a couple of minutes wait if you want to get into the Victoria Centre that 's at the York Street entrance . |
4 | In primary care prescribers rightly expect a safe and accurate dispensing service , but they have lost the regular advisory service and are most often given drug information by drug company representatives . |
5 | The railway buildings at the hill stations , on the other hand , only expected a European clientele ( together with servants ) and were organized accordingly . |
6 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
7 | The book is set in the 1940s and this is how things were then , so to expect a different kind of portrayal would be unreasonable . |
8 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |
9 | ( a ) because the rights of preference shareholders are subordinated to those of loan stock holders , preference shareholders normally expect a higher yield to reflect the difference in risk . |
10 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
11 | They generally do not expect a short-term return . |
12 | Burun did not expect a serious answer . |
13 | It does not expect a frail humanity to be capable of loving our neighbours more than ourselves : that would be a task of saintly dimension . |
14 | You would not expect a self-respecting La Paz office worker to walk down a main street fondling a doll 's house three-piece-suite or a Dinky-sized Toyota jeep . |
15 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
16 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
17 | Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success . |
18 | Do not expect a comfortable time . |
19 | After all , you simply do not expect a newly-arrived wild fish , especially one being subjected to a ‘ blue period ’ , to be so tame . |
20 | But on March 20th , a week before the hearing was due , he withdrew his request , saying that he could not expect a fair hearing from the governor and had no wish to take part in an ‘ empty game ’ . |
21 | It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed . |
22 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
23 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
24 | Immigrants will be required , as before , to send their children to French schools , and officials do not expect a significant increase in exceptions being allowed . |
25 | The Keynesians would therefore expect a close relationship between the demand for money and the yield ( rate of interest ) on near-money substitutes , but the monetarist would not expect a significant relationship because of the belief that money is a substitute for all assets alike . |
26 | The second is that you must not expect a large metropolis . |
27 | Given their portrayal by trade unionists as rich members of the bourgeouisie who were concerned only over the value of their property , they did not expect a sympathetic reception from workers . |
28 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
29 | Berowne had seemed not to expect a reciprocal confidence , indiscretion traded for indiscretion . |
30 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |