Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says there is flu in the community at this time of year so expect children to have flu symptoms . |
| 2 | He says there is flu in the community at this time of year so expect children to have flu symptoms . |
| 3 | ‘ In a bear market you normally expect shares to drop 15 to 25 per cent over 18 months . |
| 4 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 5 | A creditor does not generally expect P Notes to flood in by mail . |
| 6 | I know that a lot of blacks are just expecting things to come to them ; they 're sort of free living , it 's our nature to sit down and enjoy life . |
| 7 | Few people ever expected Sally-Anne to do as she was told . |
| 8 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 9 | Only Prof Congdon thinks the Chancellor should raise taxes next month to balance a loose monetary policy , and the other six advise against a rise , though all agree the Chancellor needs to explain his strategy clearly and three more expect tax increases in 1994 . |
| 10 | I still expect Italy to win this group . |
| 11 | You can hardly expect lightning to strike twice in the same family . ’ |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 13 | We can hardly expect adolescents to have respect for the possessions of others if they have no hope of attaining any of their own . |
| 14 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 15 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 16 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you still expecting Adam to join you ? ’ he enquired , an edge of frost creeping into his tone . |
| 18 | Cynically , Leila considered Lazar probably expected Nathan to indulge in a little snooping for him , find out what Roirbak was working on nowadays . |
| 19 | Brokers Peter Joseph of Smith New Court and Paul Heath of UBS Phillips & Drew both expect profits to rise to £125m this time . |
| 20 | B's reply would be taken to mean that he would not completely agree with what A said , and A would probably expect B to go on to explain why he was reluctant to agree . |
| 21 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 22 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 23 | In requesting , A must ( a ) want B to come now , ( b ) think it possible that B can come , ( c ) think B is not already there , ( d ) think B was not about to come anyway , ( e ) expect that B will respond with an acceptance or rejection , and if B accepts , then A will also expect B to come , ( f ) think that his ( A 's ) asking may be a possible motive for B to come , ( g ) not be , or be pretending not to be , in a position to order B to come 4 . |
| 24 | It was a very contrary thought ; after all , she had been so vague that last night together , making excuses to go back to England and honestly expecting Fernando to override them and come charging after her , exercising the caveman approach that a lot of women , in spite of their liberation , still craved — in this case Ruth , astonishingly , being one of them . |
| 25 | This does not mean that SCOTVEC also expects centres to adopt BS 5750 . |
| 26 | And I do n't think I really expected Feargal to go down to Rosslare ! |
| 27 | As one senior manager said : ‘ Employees now expect managers to take decisions on a commercial basis and recognize that their interests as employees — and in many cases shareholders — demand it . |
| 28 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 29 | She had a " tremendous capacity for absorbing work " , often expecting others to achieve the " impossible yesterday " . |
| 30 | In the last few years , attitudes have changed and society now expects smokers to wipe out 70 years of brainwashing overnight . |