Example sentences of "[modal v] expect [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 2 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 4 | The Christians were beholden to the Syrians for this service — for the moment at least — and thus the Syrians could expect compliance from them . |
| 5 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 6 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |
| 7 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |
| 8 | Since eating sugar will give the yeast a burst of growth and therefore precipitate symptoms such as bloating within a few hours , one would expect sufferers from candidiasis to be averse to sugar . |
| 9 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |
| 10 | None of us can expect assistance from a Vala ; nevertheless in any kind of Mordor it is one 's duty to go on . |
| 11 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 12 | The NCC said that at best one in seven problem debtors can expect help from money advice centres . |