Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main cause of these differences is the hotel guests who come and go according to their own personal arrangements and who quite rightly expect high standards and quality service to be maintained throughout their stay . |
| 2 | Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events . |
| 3 | We made amendments to our procedures on the advice of the support group , but we still expected negative comments . |
| 4 | They 'll hardly expect separate cards from the two of us , though since you 're likely to be sending them one it would n't hurt to add my name to yours . |
| 5 | In an interspecies cross like the mule one would always expect marked differences between the two parents ' white cell antigens , and on the analogy with humans , habitual abortions should be rare . |
| 6 | Insurance companies understandably expect proper precautions to be taken for the security and safe storage of musical instruments . |
| 7 | Some 70 per cent of Borders properties can also expect reduced demands for water tax . |
| 8 | Larder , who has given the captaincy to tough utility forward Paul Hulme , is also expecting great things from giant Welsh second rower Paul Moriarty . |
| 9 | Tower Hamlets ' GP Sue Anderson is also expecting massive problems due to the government 's formula for allocating funds to local authorities . |
| 10 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
| 11 | Finally , where there are important divisions between kinds of culture and society , one might well expect systematic differences between the associated languages for example , it is likely that literacy has systematic effects on the lexical , syntactic and semantic structure of languages , even if these have never been spelt out ( see Goody , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | You do n't climb aboard a Rolls or Bentley today expecting state-of-the-art answers . |
| 13 | We almost expected Red Indians ’ . |
| 14 | We must therefore expect certain aspects of computer design to reappear throughout the book , to be seen from a slightly different angle each time . |