Example sentences of "[conj] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never ask or expect the patient to perform actions that his physiotherapist considers are too hard for him . |
| 2 | In simple terms , battery is the application of unlawful force to another person , whereas assault consists of causing another person to apprehend or expect the application of unlawful force . |
| 3 | Thus the hospitals , schools and universities should learn how to help these conscientious citizens to provide financial assistance rather than expect the Treasury to be constantly replenishing their begging-bowls . |
| 4 | Mr Rowland may be right to think that the worst is over ; it is increasingly recognised that to expect the insurance industry to foot the entire bill for pollution would bankrupt it . |
| 5 | ‘ To argue that workers displaced by machines should necessarily be able to find work building those machines makes no more sense than to expect the horses displaced by mechanical vehicles to have been employed , directly or indirectly , in various branches of the expanding automotive industry , ’ says Leontief ( 1978 ) . |
| 6 | This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it . |
| 7 | The Republic had supplanted a symbolic structural feature — the monarchy , it attacked another — the church and expected the compliance of the army . |
| 8 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 9 | You can simply ask yourself this question , sit quietly with pen and paper at hand , and expect the answers to come to you . |
| 10 | Panorama ( BBC-1 , Monday , 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for thousands of single mothers like these , who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ? |
| 11 | PANORAMA ( BBC1 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for the thousands of single mothers who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ? |
| 12 | It is very rarely sufficient just to put the product on the table and expect the photographer to get on with photographing it . |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't do that sort of thing and expect the ref not to take strong action . ’ |
| 14 | And they are concerned that the media and the public will take the proposals floated in the paper as cast iron and expect the APB to implement them all . |
| 15 | I wonder how many teachers do give consideration to ‘ what the boys will like ’ when choosing a class text , and expect the girls to be more tolerant of the choice made . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah , yes , but you ca n't very well knock on a monastery gate and say , ‘ May I have some poison ? ’ and expect the father abbot or prior to hand it over without a question . |
| 17 | This teacher afterwards remarked that she could not just ‘ set ’ activities such as problem-solving or project work of this kind and expect the children to be able to manage on their own . |
| 18 | Under the YT programme , the Government are paying less and expect the employer to pay more . |
| 19 | Er , to expend money on a project over , that is going to last thirty forty years , and expect the people today to pay for it . |
| 20 | He writes it all down , he sends it all in and expects the system to handle it . . |
| 21 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 22 | Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better . |
| 23 | The Safrane goes on sale in January and prices have still to be announced , but expect the RT to cost about £18,500 , the RXE £25,500 . |
| 24 | The King takes a disliking to the cheshire cat but expects the cat to show respect towards him . |
| 25 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 26 | John is always fair to the horse he is training , but expects the horse to be fair in return … as Skipper found out . |
| 27 | As expected the CU has strengthened the manufactured trade balance of West Germany ( D ) . |
| 28 | When the dark-blues did turn up the fun started but as expected the Cambridge crew were carrying far more weight . |
| 29 | As expected the reception given to the Pakistan team on its return was unprecedented . |
| 30 | As he disrobed in the vestry , Quentin paused more than once , glancing at the closed door , as though expecting the boy to appear with his smile . |