Example sentences of "[not/n't] expect [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revenues , from reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear fuels , are not expected to exceed £5.2 billion . |
| 2 | She returned to the liver unit ward just before noon but was not expected to regain conciousness for some hours . |
| 3 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 4 | These were not expected to take place until December or possibly January 1993 . |
| 5 | The Commission went into recess on Aug. 14 and was not expected to hear evidence on the events in Boipatong until November . |
| 6 | She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy . |
| 7 | As part of the preparation for this programme , which is not expected to commission projects until spring 1987 , a number of position papers have been written and conferences held . |
| 8 | The Chancellor 's policies are not expected to bear fruit until the spring . |
| 9 | During the meetings ministers were not expected to raise objections to decisions affecting other ministries , much less to challenge the chair . |
| 10 | Escobar , accused of responsibility for the murder of hundreds of people over a 10-year period , including a Justice Minister , an Attorney General , at least one presidential candidate [ see p. 36844 ] and 107 passengers aboard a domestic flight [ see p. 37041 ] , was not expected to stand trial for at least a year . |
| 11 | The nobility , clergy and communes of the region were not expected to produce justifi-cations for their tenures , and there was no waving of rusty swords by irate tenants-in-chief ( as in England ) . |
| 12 | We can not expect to detect boundaries bottom-up , since there seem to be few reliable cues to word boundaries . |
| 13 | In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets . |
| 14 | Those constraints have gone now , and yet Haines says for various reasons we should not expect to see future AS/400s challenging the top-end mainframe market , although it will become a stronger challenger around the low-end and middle of Enterprise System 's territory . |
| 15 | Moreover , in the national survey , almost 60% of those who responded did not expect to take part in further training and only 8% identified specific topics they expected to cover in the future . |
| 16 | The Duc de Choiseul did not expect to occupy England , much less incorporate it in Louis XV 's empire , but merely to distract his enemy from further conquests overseas and encourage an early peace . |
| 17 | When the examiner looks at your written answers , he does not expect to find evidence of great original skill or perfection ; he is interested in your powers of argument , deduction and logical exposition . |
| 18 | But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid . |
| 19 | To reach such a target audience we probably need , at the minimum , ( a ) about two pages of description by the authors of each unit , telling the user how to load the program , how to drive it , and its limitations both educationally and technically this information could be included on the disc or tape that loads the program ( b ) some incentive to the programmer to document the program to this level , perhaps through its resulting acceptance into a ‘ library ’ ( c ) assurance from those receiving the program that they will be prepared to deal with the problems that such draft programs impose — this implies that they must be fairly competent users of their computer system : they could not expect to get software support from the author , who is likely to be another teacher whose time is fully occupied ( d ) some financial and organizational support for the distribution of programs , even if only on a cooperative basis ( e ) that users of such programs should undertake to report to the authors ( and to the library ? ) on the usefulness of each program received , and if they wish , to make recommendations for improvement . |
| 20 | Prospects for 1993 are very mixed and boss Robert Fitzpatrick does not expect to achieve profitability for the entire year . |
| 21 | While we 're out of God 's will we can not expect to experience God 's blessing . |
| 22 | Other Japanese companies-Hitachi , Toshiba , Matsushita — have treated LC TVs more as a design exercise , and do not expect to market models for a while . |
| 23 | Surely it can not expect to win sympathy for its cause . |
| 24 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
| 26 | But we should be very careful not to expect to send troops all over the world . |
| 27 | Belinda , five , had n't expected to see Santa yesterday — but then her mother and father , Gill and Paul , had not expected to be celebrating at the hospital . |
| 28 | Their local bank manager is n't expected to take part in it . |
| 29 | The move is n't expected to put SunSoft Inc 's nose out of joint , the effort is parallel to SunSoft 's unbundling of the Solaris operating system . |
| 30 | She had n't expected to have fun ever again . |