Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They are right , but they should expect no gratitude after it is over .
2 If this approach is anywhere near correct , we should expect a correlation between the class of people who are prohibited as sexual partners and the likelihood that they will be familiar or extremely novel ( see Fig. 24.6 ) .
3 I thought all the world smelt of onions ; I should expect a writer to choose a less ubiquitous smell to show observation .
4 ‘ I suppose I should expect a remark like that from you , but nevertheless — ’
5 We should expect a student to tackle a problematic discourse in the same way as we would ourselves : that is to say top-down , starting with general ideas of the discourse and filling in details — like difficult word meaning — later .
6 ‘ The Commission does not think that we should expect an increase of prices …
7 The majority voting equilibrium is then the public goods quantity demanded by the person with median income , and — if tastes are unchanged — we should expect the level of spending to vary with median income .
8 Students should expect the Government to meet living costs , but not to cough up for the extra beer and nightclubbing which Richard regards as an important part of student life .
9 Given our findings on perceptions we should expect the press to have more influence than television on attitudes .
10 Hence we should expect the Andrade equation to hold for small temperature increments only .
11 In short , we should expect the demand for bank lending to vary inversely with the rate of interest charged .
12 I do n't think ye should expect the teacher to do everything .
13 If we now think about a crack proceeding inwards from the surface of a stressed material ( Figure 1 ) we should expect the area of material in which the strain is relaxed to correspond roughly to the two shaded triangles .
14 But having been called and commissioned , we should expect the programme to take shape .
15 Probably it should have been , as this is a use which the producer should expect the product to be put to .
16 So the bacterial genes share a common destiny with their host 's genes , and in my interpretation we should expect the bacteria to cooperate with their beetles in all aspects of life .
17 These days , we should expect the drivers of all trains to have two-way communication at all times with the signal box and those who are in control of the track .
18 ‘ In the public service you must expect the clock to go somewhat slower than in any other organisation .
19 Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species .
20 In a contested bid , an offeror which offers consideration shares must expect the target 's board to turn its attention to the offeror 's financial condition and performance in an effort to dissuade shareholders from accepting the offer .
21 For such a duty to be imposed , however , the corporation must expect the outsider to keep the disclosed nonpublic information confidential , and the relationship must at least must imply such a duty .
22 ‘ I warn the abolitionists ’ , says South Carolina , ‘ … that if chance shall throw any of them into our hands he may expect a felon 's death …
23 Patients with high risk rectal cancers who undergo curative surgery and receive adjuvant therapy with 5-flourouracil and radiotherapy may expect an improvement in survival .
24 These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us .
25 Latham ( who went on to prepare the Revised Medieval Latin Word List for the British Academy ) wrote in the Amateur Historian Vol.1 , No.11 , p.332 : ‘ The student who strays from the beaten track in the realm of Medieval Latin may expect the trials and joys of the pioneer .
26 One might expect a docile or sensible horse , or even a friendly one , to be willing .
27 In Scotland , with its concentration of electronics firms , an observer might expect a cluster of companies supplying the electronics and semiconductor business with equipment .
28 I mean , as the company had its origins in Jordan , you might expect a preponderance of Jordanians on the board .
29 They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions .
30 Energy is thus dispersed and so we might expect an increase in entropy and not a decrease .
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