Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we should reconsider whether it is necessary to give women a precise date on which they should expect their baby to arrive . |
| 2 | In these cases , writers may expect their readers instantly to recognise such ALLUSIONS . |
| 3 | Any society embarked on wholesale transition might expect its progress to be punctuated by intermittent chaos . |
| 4 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 5 | A single man might be useful for attacking the marauders that Winnie feared , but then he might expect his washing and ironing to be done , and his socks darned , and Winnie was beginning to feel rather too old for such mothering . |
| 6 | Yes , I would think that if a person had a normal personality , if the interaction between the in institution and the personality was normal , you 'd expect their interaction with other people to be normal . |
| 7 | He 'd expect your engagement to be followed by marriage . ’ |
| 8 | The young working-class man in industrial employment could expect his income to reach its peak in early manhood and stay constant thereafter , barring disasters such as unemployment . |
| 9 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 10 | Given a large aquarium , a varied diet and a lot of it , you could expect your Snakehead to reach almost its full length of about 100cm . |
| 11 | Again , we would expect its level of use to be inversely related to the level of union organisation in an establishment . |
| 12 | Since all mammals evolved from a common ancestral stock we would expect their brains and bodies to have large numbers of common features which could be the basis of a reasonable level of extrapolation ( Sarnat and Netsky 1981 ) . |
| 13 | There were considerable dangers in the project , but Warner and Wallis would expect their writers to mould the original story-lines into the Hollywood format and any obvious problems would be worked out with the representatives of the various censoring agents who normally read every script prior to production . |
| 14 | The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education . |
| 15 | Ninety one per cent ( 3096 ) would expect their doctor to be understanding . |
| 16 | We wish to distance ourselves from such inferences , even though naturally we would expect our findings to generate constructive discussion about the effective use of pupils ' and teachers ' time in primary schools . |
| 17 | In America , a sensible country , the president would expect his budget to be top of the evening news only on a very slow day . |
| 18 | Well we would expect his group to be against it . |
| 19 | He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen . |
| 20 | After that they would expect His Majesty to grant a dissolution . |
| 21 | For instance , I admit freely that I would expect my desktop publisher to be able to flow and reflow copy from one column to another automatically ; that seems a basic requirement for general-purpose DTP and PagePlus ca n't do it . |
| 22 | If I carry you down to the garden I shall expect your life story in full , a complete and truthful exposé . ’ |
| 23 | A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension . |
| 24 | Someone is sure to ask you how long it takes to knit a jumper , but do n't tell them the exact number of hours and minutes , or they will expect their jumper by tomorrow ! |
| 25 | Expect a mess : Your doctor will expect your home to be clean but it is not necessary to sterilise everything . |
| 26 | Remember that other people will expect your support in return for backing you . |
| 27 | Candidates in local elections can expect their followers not only to vote for them but to campaign for them as well . |
| 28 | Companies that arc heavily involved in foreign trade , or whose markets are seasonal , can expect their banks to be responsive to variations in liquidity and generally act as financial advisers . |
| 29 | The unpredictable nature of the fashion industry means Canan can expect her work to be anything but regular . |
| 30 | ‘ She can expect her husband at her side , and that 's what she 's going to get . ’ |