Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] expect [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps unreasonable to expect Continental evidence to represent accurately the styles of dress worn in early Anglo-Saxon England . |
| 2 | Despite Clinton 's hopes for action within the first 100 days of his administration , it is more realistic to expect legislative hearings during March and April and the earliest Congressional action on any legislation in May or early June . |
| 3 | Yet it is also unrealistic to expect one hour of teaching time per week to be sufficient to cover the information required for good patient care . |
| 4 | While it may be straightforward to think of school development planning , teacher appraisal , the identifying of remediable faults and the training or retraining of teachers as one set of loosely connected but manageable disciplines , it is less straightforward but equally urgent to expect that other connections should be more systematically organized in order to give assurances of quality . |
| 5 | It is quite hopeless to expect any news which they are either not ready nor sufficiently interested to share . |
| 6 | You are fully entitled to expect these reports on progress regularly . |
| 7 | It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life . |
| 8 | It would be too much to expect convergent evolution to have produced a single thrifty genotype in all populations by chance , and the most likely situation is that several genes have been selected in different combinations , in different populations , to produce a phenotypically similar syndrome . |
| 9 | While it is probably too much to expect English politicians to learn from Scotland , I would have hoped that in Scotland we will still try to understand the problems rather than take refuge in moral outrage and simply condemn . |
| 10 | But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime . |
| 11 | But it would be too much to expect foolproof results from either method : personal assessment based on experience ; or the more objective actuarial credit-scoring system . |
| 12 | ‘ Queen Street has always been one of the main access points to the beach and it is too far to expect old people to walk around the end of the development , ’ she added . |