Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That is to say , for 100 feet of water one could only expect 240 feet of sediment of normal density .
2 The organisation concerned would normally expect these roles to be occupied by men .
3 If he condemns people who are outperforming his members , he can hardly expect much respect for their standards .
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 Even if it has , you should not always expect reliable reading of a file on a 5.25 inch disk when it has been written on a 1.2MB drive and you are attempting to read the file on a 360K drive .
7 It is not sufficient that someone had an opportunity to examine the goods , it must be shown that the manufacturer could reasonably expect that person to make an examination .
8 Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no .
9 We once set a case involving a highly seasonal business which ended up with no cash , a big overdraft , lots of creditors and no hope of any more revenue for at least six months : those students who did n't recognize that some pretty drastic immediate action was required ( surprisingly , there were several ) could n't reasonably expect any marks !
10 You may also expect more love and support than of late .
11 Moscow could also expect Iraqi interest in Brezhnev 's initiative since Baghdad had floated a ‘ Pan-Arab Charter ’ early in 1980 , which inter alia had asserted the need to keep the Gulf free from all superpower bases .
12 Some 70 per cent of Borders properties can also expect reduced demands for water tax .
13 Any answer to this question depends very much on how many workers can realistically expect permanent employment and in what sense pay is related to age .
14 On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour .
15 Might we now expect some clarification regarding Trident .
16 Merseytravel finance director John Wilkinson said he did not now expect another toll increase to be even considered for another 12 months .
17 But City law firm Berwin Leighton , acting for the National Union of Journalists and the Graphical Paper and Media Union , said yesterday that all fund members could now expect full payment .
18 ‘ Then he 'll surely expect some sort of explanation from me , ’ Harry said quietly .
19 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 ) .
20 This is not to overlook , however , the fact that the parties to these relationships , may legitimately expect some form of sexual gratification from their partners and should have grounds for complaint if it were denied .
21 We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved .
22 As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods .
23 We must therefore expect certain aspects of computer design to reappear throughout the book , to be seen from a slightly different angle each time .
24 We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors .
25 From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring .
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