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 . |