Example sentences of "[conj] expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew better than to expect a detailed answer . |
| 2 | Pope John , it is said , ‘ had not envisaged the possibility of rejection and expected a rapid and painless vote in favour of projects that he had read through and welcomed with full approval ’ ( Ratzinger Report , 1985 , p. 41 ) . |
| 3 | Here is a volume you could present to someone with no interest in science and expect a pleasurable reaction from any but the most insensitive . |
| 4 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |
| 5 | Some analysts pointed to a further fall of 13,000 in manufacturing jobs which could indicate the overall fall may be due to problems with seasonal adjustments , and expect the upward trend to resume in March . |
| 6 | Both horses and people will use what they have learnt from their own species and expect the other species to understand . |
| 7 | They tend to be European , though , or Europeanized Egyptians and expect the social style of a club on the Riviera . |
| 8 | Readers wishing to make a similar tray should note that it is not possible to assign values arbitrarily to the sides of the rectangle and ‘ rise ’ of both flaps and expect the resulting outline to be a smooth one . |
| 9 | In recent times , however , most people have come to experience and to expect an abrupt transition from full-time work to full-time retirement at an age when many of them feel reasonably fit . |
| 10 | Its chairman , Roly Smith , says that anyone buying one of the titles and expecting a practical , up-to-date guide will be ‘ sadly and quite literally misled ’ . |
| 11 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 12 | This meant that management were able to push decision making well down the hierarchy , giving those actually operating the CNC machines much autonomy , and expecting a high level of integration of the various functions such as quality control , work planning , programming of the machine , and machine setting to take place via those operatives actually on the shop floor . |
| 13 | He takes on Kenya 's former Olympic champion Paul Ereng in Hengelo , Holland , next Sunday and expects a hard race as part of his preparations for the World Championships in Stuttgart at the end of August . |
| 14 | The company adds that it is already benefiting from increased efficiency and expects a large return on its financial investment in Weldon . |
| 15 | The Channel Tunnel Research Unit at the University of Kent is also cautious in its assessment and expects the direct impact of the Tunnel to be marginal . |
| 16 | He had no clear idea what he was going to do but expected a good gathering at Linley 's house and thought an opportunity would occur . |
| 17 | Assignment , on the other hand , requires a more explicit focus on the particular property assigned ; what is assigned may be a complex property ( like fairly acceptable ) , or even a co-ordination ; but to expect a single linguistic faculty to make two separate assignments of properties to the same entity in the same phrase would be unreasonable ; it would be analogous to expecting a physical eye to focus on two different objects at the same time . |
| 18 | As yet Mr. Bowden does not know how much money he has raised , but expects the final total to be well over £250 . |
| 19 | In 1976 , the government pegged the grant for future years to the 1975 level in real terms , while expecting a comparable service to be maintained . |
| 20 | What should be expected post-operatively , e.g. if the patient will wake up in the ward or a recovery room ; whether to expect an intravenous infusion. 5 . |
| 21 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |