Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [pron] expect " in BNC.

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1 And how long would you expect me to stay there ?
2 So we come back around the circle to the capital side of the balance of payments , and the operationally interesting question : for how long can we expect the world 's savers to make up our domestic shortage ?
3 So can we expect to hear soon that other national railways are introducing similar schemes of their own ?
4 So can we expect a glorious future where dreams and technology merge or are the implications more sinister ?
5 So can we expect the silence of the Buddha from Mike Harding ?
6 All that needs to be said here and now is — how soon may we expect you ? ’
7 What exactly would he expect from her ?
8 it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ?
9 But how far can we expect institutions to fulfil the needs of historians in this area ?
10 How far can I expect the audience to share the desired meaning of the work ?
11 How could they expect him to perform with someone like that ?
12 How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ?
13 How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ?
14 How could you expect anyone to trust you with their conveyancing ? ’ she had said to him , only last week .
15 But then how could you expect someone like David Mellor to give up his sort of games for those they 're playing in Spain ? — .
16 ‘ But if you never told them what turned you on , how could you expect — ‘
17 How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ?
18 And if he was n't in control , how could he expect to control her ?
19 How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ?
20 In that event , how would they expect to protect the consumer ?
21 ‘ — so how would you expect Harriet Shakespeare to feel now ? ’
22 How would you expect the February 1988 changes in building society regulations to affect their sources and destination of funds ?
23 Stick with that scenario , how , how would you anticipate , or how would you expect that strategic guidance to be given as to where development should be appropriately located to serve the needs of Greater York , what mechanism is there in place for being
24 Ho how would you expect to see that expressed ?
25 When we come back to there then and only then can we expect , er to experience God 's blessing for us .
26 How can they expect their leader to devote his energy to attacking the Tories when he has to spend time dealing with his own rancorous , ill-disciplined colleagues ?
27 I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense .
28 How can we expect her to adopt the thought patterns of an earlier age ?
29 How can we expect to be lifted by the language of prayer ‘ if the sentence itself needs to be lifted — by a stretcher ? ’ he asked .
30 How can we expect to be lifted by the language of prayer ‘ if the sentence itself needs to be lifted — by a stretcher ? ’ he asked .
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