Example sentences of "[adv] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any players worth their salt will obviously expect the suits of armour to animate and attack , so do n't disappoint them here . |
| 2 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases . |
| 6 | Given the author 's centre-right political stance ( he is a potential Presidential candidate in Peru ) one could hardly expect the portrait be sympathetic . |
| 7 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 8 | We would probably expect the dispersion in Β to be considerably larger than in N ; on the other hand , this may be offset by its lower degree of serial correlation . |
| 9 | This is because it is to the equilibrium rate of national income ( Y e ) that we can reasonably expect the macroeconomy to tend . |
| 10 | The key ability is to know to address problems early and to know what you can reasonably expect the banks to do . |
| 11 | Customers will expect to pay more for a reputable brand , but they will also expect the price charged to be consistent with their perceptions of the product ; * the amount and style of advertising and sales promotion ( Promotion ) will influence the consumer 's perception of the product , which in turn must influence on-going company product and brand development activities ( Product ) . |
| 12 | If we pursue the doctrine of the orogeny/regression couple , then we must also expect the corollary that the wearing down of mountain ranges and the spread of continents by marginal sedimentation must lead to widespread transgressions . |
| 13 | He could also expect the backing of Dr John Cunningham , Labour 's campaign 's co-ordinator , and other key shadow Cabinet figures . |
| 14 | Apart from the societal context within which the organisation operates we would also expect the history of the organisation to influence its present culture . |
| 15 | Your readers will also expect the paper to investigate the causes of the epidemic |
| 16 | You can also expect the fish to feed along the shore towards which the wind is blowing . |
| 17 | Perhaps we should also expect the officials to provide a vision for the organisation even though less grandiose in scope . |
| 18 | The NZRFU can not really expect the Home Unions to agree to short tours when they place matches on the last two Saturdays of a tour , and put the tourists against top-strength sides at major venues on the two preceding Saturdays . |
| 19 | Maybe we can now expect the Government to react with some form of moratorium , at least until after April 9 . |
| 20 | The problem for the archbishop was that while the king could now expect the clergy to offer subsidies for the defence of the realm , a campaign in Flanders and Gascony did not seem to be defensive of the realm , nor could the French claims to homage for Gascony be immediately construed as imperilling the kingdom . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , given that it will not do to define law as a means to institutionalise dispute-resolution and so inhibit unregulated conflict , we may surely expect the control of force to be a major objective of law . |
| 22 | Does not he equally expect the rule of law to be observed on both sides of the Irish border ? |
| 23 | You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases … |
| 24 | Clearly , a member of parliament who could take the foul-mouthed uncle William far from the laird of Craigie 's children might legitimately expect the memory of such a favour to persist for an election or two . |
| 25 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 26 | So is n't the only way you could do it would be to issue it secretly to cadres you would then expect the cadres to take this up and promote it but you have n't actually broken the conditions in the United Front . |
| 27 | They can not however expect the Swan Hunter work force to accept the imposition of such working conditions at any price . |
| 28 | But would you seriously expect the Government to subsidise that ? . |
| 29 | After all , one can not seriously expect the status of the GDR to change radically while the status of the FRG remains the same . |