Example sentences of "[adj] expect the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bankers would be foolish to expect the Bank of Japan to improve their spreads by cutting the official discount rate ( ODR ) again if the economy fails to recover as quickly as many now expect .
2 Here again it is unrealistic to expect the law of any state to list modes of service which are not allowed ; the policy of the authors of the draft that only a positive prohibition should ‘ stand in the way of granting a request for service ’ gives inadequate weight to the interests of the state of destination .
3 In the case of a young child it is unrealistic to expect the child to comply with the supervisor 's directions without the co-operation and commitment of the person caring for him .
4 It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings .
5 It would be unrealistic to expect the majority of researchers from overseas to maintain their UK research interests when they return to their country of origin , or move elsewhere , as many of them do , to the extent that they would wish to complete a paper or papers based on their UK findings .
6 The Secretary of State , in the letter he sent to all hon. Members , said that it would be unrealistic to expect the removal of all differences between brewers and their tenants .
7 In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’
8 In such circumstances I consider it quite unrealistic to expect the taxpayer to make its payments ‘ under protest . ’
9 I believe it is unrealistic to expect the community care reforms to transform services according to the wishes of service users .
10 And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer .
11 ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ )
12 In circumstances of group disorder , in particular , it may be quite impractical to expect the constable to issue a request for the actor to desist before making his arrest .
13 It was not possible to expect the group to act with ‘ responsible autonomy ’ — to be self-regulating — because of the elaborate division of labour .
14 For Simeon Kokhba , it would have been perfectly natural to expect the adherents of an earlier Messiah — the rightful king dedicated to freeing his country from the Roman yoke — to aid him in just such an enterprise .
15 knows or has reasonable cause to believe that because of the insider 's connection and position it would be reasonable to expect the person in his position not to disclose the information except in the proper performance of his duties ; and
16 However , a Commissioner may still investigate if he is satisfied that it is not reasonable to expect the complainant to use or have used this right .
17 The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses .
18 Where perishable goods are to be despatched to the buyer by carrier , it is reasonable to expect the goods to be of such a quality as to be able to withstand a normal journey — Mash & murrell v. Joseph Emmanuel ( 1961 Q.B. ) .
19 I would expect someone who claimed to believe in ghosts to give some evidence for their existence , and it is reasonable to expect the theist to give evidence for God 's existence .
20 But I do not consider it reasonable to expect the theist to prove the existence of God , something that would effectively remove the element of trust which I have also highlighted .
21 It will , in all cases , be a question of pure fact as to whether the re-training involves the acquisition of such esoteric skills that it would not be reasonable to expect the employee to acquire them .
22 The Court of Appeal supported this view , Lord Justice Purchas saying that it was ‘ clearly established ’ that the circumstances in which the court would intervene by judicial review were ‘ severely circumscribed ’ , though remitting the cases to the local authority for them to state correctly their reasons for determining that it was reasonable to expect the applicants to continue to occupy their settled accommodation in Bangladesh .
23 ‘ In the light of these realities , is it really reasonable to expect the police to apply to the Irish population in this country the presumption of innocence that they apply to other citizens ?
24 Given their manpower resources , it is not reasonable to expect the police to be able to enforce rigorously a large-scale , blanket speed limit in residential areas and it is apparent that they do not try to do so .
25 It is hardly reasonable to expect the children to concentrate on sharing out the last of their emergency rations if the dinner ladies are putting out tables for lunch .
26 ‘ It would however be quite unreasonable to expect the accidents were never to happen when the wire gauze lamps are used ; for it must be remembered , setting aside the chance of their being damaged by some of the casualties incidental to coal mining , they are to be entrusted to the management of a body of men among whom negligent individuals will be found . ’
27 It is suggested that where the premises form part of a number of properties insured by the landlord under a block policy , it would be unreasonable to expect the landlord to produce the policy and this is accepted .
28 But it would be unreasonable to expect the Ibrox players to scale the heights again this afternoon in the aftermath of their ten-man win over Brugge .
29 It would be unreasonable to expect the reader to believe that so many professional scientists and administrators could be taken in to such an extent as the tale required .
30 We believe that , where a request for information has been inadequately answered , it is insufficient to expect the applicant to ‘ seek a remedy through the usual democratic channels or through a judicial review ’ .
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