Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
| 2 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 3 | I never see why people should expect interesting preachers in Lent . ’ |
| 4 | Those who participate in such campaigns must expect substantial sentences . |
| 5 | They are so frequent these days in London , which has eight of 20 First Division clubs , that we must expect aesthetic considerations to be overridden . |
| 6 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 7 | Accepting even a weak Whorfian view that language used influences thought and representation to some degree , then one might expect great differences in the way that deaf people structure information . |
| 8 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 9 | With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent . |
| 10 | Where both husband and wife have substantial commitments to the job world , one might expect domestic responsibilities to be shared . |
| 11 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 12 | If this is true we might expect paired males to be more vigilant than bachelor males . |
| 13 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 14 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
| 15 | He also talked in Morocco to Barbara Walters of ABC news , Walters was among those Western journalists with whom the Shah was on good terms and who could expect exclusive interviews when they came to Teheran , as well as personal attention from the Iranian ambassador in their won countries . |
| 16 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 17 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 18 | She made Johnson feel doubly at home , as she had ‘ lived many years in England ’ , therefore he could expect English manners and sense of comfort . |
| 19 | If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located . |
| 20 | If interest is earned in a separate account from the cheque account I would expect automatic transfers to keep the cheque account at an agreed limit . |
| 21 | We would expect temporary workers employed on open-ended contracts to do so as well . |
| 22 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 23 | He pointed out that Mr Evans ' salary was many times higher than that of the Prime Minister and that massive increases meant others would expect similar rises . |
| 24 | Although the blood groups of the parents are almost certainly incompatible , one would expect diseased foals to be very exceptional because the first offspring is rarely affected . |
| 25 | From what we know about their audience and their content , we would expect major differences between the influence of television and the influence of the press , and major differences also between the influence of highbrow and lowbrow sources . |
| 26 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 27 | We would expect different groups involved in the policy process to have power on different issues . |
| 28 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 29 | In drawing these three threads together , it is fair to say that if , as we have shown , the Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus , we shall expect similar marks in the Church of our age and every age as the Spirit displayed in the life of our Lord . |
| 30 | Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her . |