Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] expect to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newly-elected councillor must not expect to be elected to the more important committees unless he has special qualifications for any committee . |
| 2 | We who teach should not expect to be valued as ‘ professionals ’ if we can not be trusted . |
| 3 | The doctor should not expect to be able to direct and support patients and carers in all their needs . |
| 4 | In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance . |
| 5 | Faith is something which is merely believed , so it must always expect to be open to doubt . |
| 6 | But in the ordinary way we should n't expect to , of course , he is n't a writing man . |
| 7 | In effect the staff , in making this statement , are erecting a ‘ fence ’ around the unit which excludes those agencies that might otherwise expect to be involved . |
| 8 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 9 | Whereas it would have been possible to ask Harriet Finlay Johnson , ‘ What are you teaching this lesson ? ’ and the answer could easily be something like , ‘ The Spanish Armada ’ , one could not expect to be given an equivalent answer from Peter Slade , Brian Way or the Speech and Drama teachers . |
| 10 | But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming-to-terms with the long-term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second-class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . |
| 11 | While also talking of national renewal , the Communist Party emphasises its ability to concentrate resources on reviving the economy in a way that a Popular Front government could hardly expect to . |
| 12 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 13 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 14 | Children could now expect to be helped in two to eight weeks depending on the seriousness of their problems , she said . |
| 15 | He made the point that had the position been reversed he would not expect to be pestered after giving a straight answer . |
| 16 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 17 | People living in slums due for redevelopment would normally expect to be rehoused on rambling estates around the periphery of the city . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't expect to be good first time . |
| 20 | If you do n't bill on time you ca n't expect to be paid on time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm warm toward people , but you ca n't expect to be loved . |
| 22 | Potential carers will naturally expect to be thoroughly vetted and would be required to undertake an eight-week training course before being entrusted with the care of a child , which could take anything up to six months . |
| 23 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 24 | For I can not expect to be offered help , nobody else will care to take a turn at the heavy work of pushing . |
| 25 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 26 | If a surveyor does his work badly it goes without saying that he can not expect to be paid for it , but usually the client will also wish to claim damages as financial compensation . |
| 27 | Teenagers who consistently fail to let parents know when they will be home , or where they are likely to be , can not expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours . |
| 28 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 29 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 30 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |