Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 2 | With a Basis Loan our proportion of the equity is normally 10–20% — and Barclays will not expect board representation . |
| 3 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 4 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 5 | Lawson says do not expect EMS news |
| 6 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 7 | They do not expect security guarantees . |
| 8 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 9 | It is a sound maxim that you do not ask the barber whether you need a haircut , and if Prof Paulos is not a wholly disinterested party in matters of numeracy , you will certainly not expect Arno Penzias , a distinguished physicist and vice-president for research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of AT&T , to be less than sanguine about the remorseless advance of information technology . |
| 10 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 12 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 13 | BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish warned the rest of his expensive stars last night they ca n't always expect £3.3million striker Alan Shearer to save them with one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 14 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 15 | The Right will clearly expect Mr Hamilton to keep in check some of Mr Heseltine 's more interventionist policies . |
| 16 | He could also expect record damages after being jailed for almost 10 months . |
| 17 | Do n't expect Schedule Express to go into the fine details of resource management . |
| 18 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 19 | DJ Supreme from Hijack 's offering is particularly raw , and seems mightily generous : you would n't expect Terminator X to give away his secrets , after all . |
| 20 | I do n't expect John Major to do so , but the TUC will . ’ |
| 21 | Doctors did n't expect John Fillon-Payoux to survive . |
| 22 | I did n't expect Mr Meredith Williams to stay , ’ he said curtly . |
| 23 | So what , when you 're paying that much for the hi-fi you do n't expect sound quality you 'll get from a tape to tape , it 's thought , the sound quality is so crap you might as well just do it on a shit thing |
| 24 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 25 | We might therefore expect B's utterance to be interpreted as a non-co-operative response , a brushing aside of A's concerns with a change of topic . |