Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 2 | In his inaugural address Konare warned that the country should not expect miracles ; although he wished to bring hope to the country , he said , he was not a " pedlar of illusion " . |
| 3 | ‘ In India , ’ concludes the Mirza Nama , a gentleman ‘ should not expect intelligence and good behaviour from those who put big turbans on their heads . ’ |
| 4 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 5 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 6 | You 're in prison , you should n't expect luxury . |
| 7 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 8 | Of course this can never be true if the occupation has been entered upon for what one can get out of it — one must never expect virtue to bring a reward . |
| 9 | We may not expect consumer behaviour , right , to be the same at all prices and quantities basically but er , nevertheless , you will probably see more linear demand curves than nonlinear ones because they are somewhat simpler . |
| 10 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 11 | Those who know southern England might well expect Wallingford to be already a mere dormitory of London . |
| 12 | We might therefore expect B's utterance to be interpreted as a non-co-operative response , a brushing aside of A's concerns with a change of topic . |
| 13 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 14 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 15 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |
| 16 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 18 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 19 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 21 | He could also expect record damages after being jailed for almost 10 months . |
| 22 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 23 | Their commitment to each other was made , after all , and she could n't expect Rohan to jettison every other aspect of his life in her favour . |
| 24 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 25 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 26 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 27 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 28 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 29 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 30 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |