Example sentences of "[adv] expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst affected is your love life , so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice . |
| 2 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 3 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 4 | Directors do not normally expect payment for their services though a small gift might be appropriate . |
| 5 | The Purchaser will normally expect warranties from all Vendors — whether or not they worked or will work in the business . |
| 6 | Britain is at the stage when we must no longer expect sections of our land to be retained for the benefit of the few , when they could be used to provide jobs for the many . |
| 7 | While teachers would presumably like a class of thirty hermaphroditic paragons , they nonetheless expect pupils to ‘ deviate ’ from this — and on sex-differentiated lines . |
| 8 | The limitations of this role are considerable , and such people can hardly expect others to be receptive , forthcoming and responsive towards them . |
| 9 | We can therefore hardly expect change from individual departments : they lack an appreciation of the curriculum as a whole and are inherently inclined to defend their own interests . |
| 10 | During dinner at the Pheasantry , Ian clearly expected Clare to be frivolously entertaining . |
| 11 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's confidently expect bids of over $10 million ( £6.6 million ) . |
| 13 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 14 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |
| 15 | Some now expect £673m against £521m . |
| 16 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |
| 17 | It now expects profits of £225m against earlier hopes of £243m . |
| 18 | Those who know southern England might well expect Wallingford to be already a mere dormitory of London . |
| 19 | One might as well expect mercy from a killer shark or warmth from a cube of ice . |
| 20 | Perhaps I had naively expected headlines of the HUMPHRY DAVY INVENTS MINERS ' SAFETY LAMP , ROSSINI WRITES FIRST OPERA , HENRY THOREAU BORN , kind of thing ! |
| 21 | Well , I never expected sampling to be part of it all . |
| 22 | ‘ I never expected travelling on foot to be so arduous , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I half expected five-year-olds to be making funny remarks about them behind my back . |
| 24 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 25 | She had always laughed , enjoyed the flattery , never expecting love from any of them because she had not loved any of them herself , but this time was different . |
| 26 | No one seriously expects revolution in East Germany from below . |