Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [modal v] [pron] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they expect him to perform with someone like that ? |
| 2 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 3 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 4 | ‘ How could you expect anyone to trust you with their conveyancing ? ’ she had said to him , only last week . |
| 5 | But then how could you expect someone like David Mellor to give up his sort of games for those they 're playing in Spain ? — . |
| 6 | ‘ But if you never told them what turned you on , how could you expect — ‘ |
| 7 | How could I expect my friends to understand that training a bird was virtually a twenty-four-hour-a-day job ? |
| 8 | And if he was n't in control , how could he expect to control her ? |
| 9 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 10 | In that event , how would they expect to protect the consumer ? |
| 11 | ‘ — so how would you expect Harriet Shakespeare to feel now ? ’ |
| 12 | How would you expect the February 1988 changes in building society regulations to affect their sources and destination of funds ? |
| 13 | Stick with that scenario , how , how would you anticipate , or how would you expect that strategic guidance to be given as to where development should be appropriately located to serve the needs of Greater York , what mechanism is there in place for being |
| 14 | Ho how would you expect to see that expressed ? |
| 15 | How can they expect their leader to devote his energy to attacking the Tories when he has to spend time dealing with his own rancorous , ill-disciplined colleagues ? |
| 16 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 17 | How can we expect her to adopt the thought patterns of an earlier age ? |
| 18 | How can we expect to be lifted by the language of prayer ‘ if the sentence itself needs to be lifted — by a stretcher ? ’ he asked . |
| 19 | How can we expect to be lifted by the language of prayer ‘ if the sentence itself needs to be lifted — by a stretcher ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | We must have confidence in ourselves ; if we do n't , how can we expect someone else to ? |
| 21 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |
| 22 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 23 | But this poses a problem : if ‘ crimes ’ are diverse , changeable and selective , how can we expect to be able to make any general statements about the conditions that influence their prevalence ? |
| 24 | How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ? |
| 25 | And without this capacity how can we expect large scale mainframe users to down-size or right-size into open systems . |
| 26 | As a country , how can we expect to attract inward investment and have the confidence of overseas investors if we hear such remarks from Labour Members ? |
| 27 | How can one expect inward investment when no assistance is given to our existing industries ? |
| 28 | As Richard Attenborough once said to me , ‘ If you have n't learnt to play to an audience that is present , how can you expect to play to one that is n't ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How can you expect me to risk my boys ? ’ |
| 30 | If there is nothing in the potency , how can you expect an effect ? |