Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs the plaintiff 's expert thought it was quote , extremely unreasonable to expect Mr and Mrs to continue caring as they do for their daughter , unquote . |
| 2 | But , the critic may sense , in some subject areas it is simply not appropriate to expect students to form a view of their own . |
| 3 | It is not reasonable to expect Hong Kong to continue to accept , year in , year out , large numbers of people coming from Vietnam — not because they have a well founded fear of persecution , but because they want to better the economic lot of themselves and their families . |
| 4 | German businessmen take a much more cheerful view of their economy than currency traders , who have lately driven the D-mark down : the balance of German companies expecting sales to rise over those expecting sales to fall is 69% , the widest margin in the chart . |
| 5 | In any case it is not unreasonable to expect history teachers to justify publicly to tax-payers and rate-payers why money should be spent on teaching history . |
| 6 | ‘ It is totally unrealistic to expect trainees to survive on that , ’ Mr Hanson said . |
| 7 | However , bearing these caveats in mind , it is still reasonable to expect children to have made demonstrable progress along the developmental path when they reach key stages in the education system . |
| 8 | Rather , that person is also entitled to expect others to behave towards him or her in certain ways . |
| 9 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 10 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Was it too much expecting people to watch three times a week ? |
| 14 | It is too much to expect musicians to deliberately cast aside the fringe benefits of success . |
| 15 | Yes we have obviously got problems throughout the team , and I think it was too much to expect Leeds to put in a real championship challenge . |
| 16 | This style of politics is common in Europe : it is not too much to expect Brian Wilson and others to accept this responsibility . |