Example sentences of "[adv] expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By contrast one can normally expect a mini to have good on-line facilities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We always expected an appeal to An Bord Pleanala and we are well prepared for it ’ . |
| 10 | Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment . |
| 11 | ‘ Loads of women still expect a man to pay when they go out for dinner . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We usually expect a marriage to last — yet things can change ! |
| 14 | Mrs Burke 's daughter , Mrs Doreen Leverton , 63 , said : ‘ You always expect a parent to die sometime but not in this way . |
| 15 | Sometimes , though , doctors prescribe more medicines than are necessary because they think that most of their patients always expect a prescription . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | ‘ They ca n't possibly expect an answer . ’ |
| 18 | We would usually expect a book such as Suckers to sell around 1,500 copies , but we now expect it so sell substantially more than that . ’ |
| 19 | He clearly expected a reply in the negative . |
| 20 | According to the poll , conducted among directors of the leading 500 companies , 96 per cent of business leaders think a Labour victory would bring higher interest rates , while 83 per cent also expect a fall in the value of the pound against the German mark . |
| 21 | Though Young could have reasonably expected a bishopric , he was repeatedly passed over and in 1626 apparently offered £15,000 for the vacant see of Winchester . |
| 22 | If you do decide to stop before this happens , perhaps someone else can put him to bed , so he does n't automatically expect a breastfeed before going to sleep . |
| 23 | In the case of a young man of 25 in a managerial or professional occupation with good job prospects one could reasonably expect a multiplier of 17 or 18 . |
| 24 | Of the higher officers of state in the fourteenth century most were in holy orders and many could reasonably expect a bishopric as the reward of their secular labours . |
| 25 | So , if the rational person thinks that the aggregate demand curve will be at AD 1 he must also expect a price level of P 2 . |
| 26 | But here one may also expect a degree of individual variation . |
| 27 | Additional targets set by Minister for Social Security Peter Lilley include : the identification of at least 40,000 extra self-employed people who should be registered ; a £12m increase in returns from identified Class 1 NI underpayments ; a £13.3m increase in payments of arrears ; and efficiency savings of £2.6m. 95% of customers can also expect a response to their enquiries within 10 working days . |
| 28 | One would also expect a difference in attitudes between general managers of state corporations and those of transnationals . |
| 29 | Scot Colin Montgomerie 's wife Eimear is also expecting a baby at around the same time . |
| 30 | We had been wakened as on my first morning by the hideous 6 a.m. clattering of dustbin lids ; I had n't really expected a bugle but I found this noise intolerable . |