Example sentences of "[vb mod] not 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 | You 're in prison , you should n't expect luxury . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 13 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 14 | One would not expect coral thickness exceeding 90 m ( 300 ft ) if only glacial control had been involved in the formation of coral islands . |
| 15 | It was obviously very cheap , so she would n't expect compensation . |
| 16 | DJ Supreme from Hijack 's offering is particularly raw , and seems mightily generous : you would n't expect Terminator X to give away his secrets , after all . |
| 17 | " Well , keeping the place straight , " Siegfried said ; " I would n't expect perfection but you could tidy up each day , and of course prepare the meals . " |
| 18 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 19 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 20 | I hope Sarah would n't expect Julie to stay any later would she ? |
| 21 | You ca n't expect miracles . |
| 22 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But you ca n't expect Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to help us if we show we do n't trust him ! ’ |
| 24 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 25 | We ca n't expect gratitude , any more than we want charity from others . |
| 26 | When you 've had an industrialist as a father and you know how a business works , you ca n't expect farmers to ignore every business principle to be Green . |
| 27 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 28 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |
| 30 | I know this is a bit of an affront to our high opinion of ourselves as human beings , er , of course many people regard it that way , but erm my view is that er we ca n't expect science necessarily to tell us things we want to hear . |