Example sentences of "[adv] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile . |
| 2 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 3 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
| 4 | Tae kwon do is the Korean art of self-defence and Britain 's rather good at it , so expect a lot of that on your screens . |
| 5 | On the other hand , people naturally expected a return to prewar " normality " — prewar living standards , the old way of life , and elements , at least , of the old political system . |
| 6 | Two hundred separate regulations have been introduced since nineteen seventy eight but factory inspectors have been severely cut where the average workplace now can only expect a visit once every eleven years that 's why we 've got ta get a backup service right right for our sa safety representatives . |
| 7 | Any players worth their salt will obviously expect the suits of armour to animate and attack , so do n't disappoint them here . |
| 8 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 9 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 11 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
| 12 | The brake and clutch are too close together for my modest size sevens , and there 's a huge foot-rest where I would normally expect a clutch pedal . |
| 13 | By contrast one can normally expect a mini to have good on-line facilities . |
| 14 | If the offeror is a subsidiary , or a company controlled by a consortium , the offeror should normally expect the Panel to look through the corporation and require disclosure of the ultimate holding company or members of the consortium . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've seen that dress before , ’ whispers a disappointed woman in front , but you could scarcely expect the Queen to wear a new suit for each of the fourteen investitures each year as well as all her other official functions . |
| 16 | So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases . |
| 17 | Taxi drivers on the resort island of Jerba , close to the Libyan border , are already expecting a windfall from the transit of foreigners working in Libya . |
| 18 | He can usually take for granted initial student motivation , educational level and intelligence ; he is part of a system which already expects the student to spend a considerable proportion of his time in private study , and which usually provides at least minimal facilities for this to take place . |
| 19 | Any Romanian had learnt instinctively to expect the opposite of what the Party assured them the future had to offer . |
| 20 | We always expected an appeal to An Bord Pleanala and we are well prepared for it ’ . |
| 21 | After being so intimately associated with Christ and hearing his parables of the Kingdom and private commentary interpreting those stories , his disciples still expected the Kingdom to come in the material and nationalistic terms of the Old Testament ( Acts 1:6 ) . |
| 22 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
| 23 | Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment . |
| 24 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 25 | As Mann says , this may be acceptable if the only evidence consists of a ‘ one-sided dialogue ’ where the suspect refuses to answer any questions at all , but where some , a significant number perhaps , are answered , it may be highly impracticable to sever a conversation in this way and still expect a jury to make sense of it . |
| 26 | We usually expect a marriage to last — yet things can change ! |
| 27 | Mrs Burke 's daughter , Mrs Doreen Leverton , 63 , said : ‘ You always expect a parent to die sometime but not in this way . |
| 28 | Sometimes , though , doctors prescribe more medicines than are necessary because they think that most of their patients always expect a prescription . |
| 29 | How could she possibly expect a girl of Cissie 's years to understand how a woman could love so deeply that there seemed no shame in it at all ? |
| 30 | ‘ They ca n't possibly expect an answer . ’ |