Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] expect " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 2 | I do n't think it 's reasonable to expect that you will ever get rid of jealousy or fear or anxiety . |
| 3 | In our view it 's reasonable to expect an individual who is conducting an audit , to consider information relevant to an audit which is obtained in the course of other work for the same client . |
| 4 | It 's absurd to expect a heron to behave like a blackbird ! " |
| 5 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 6 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's hard to expect you to believe it after what happened , but you can trust me . |
| 8 | Well I do n't think an ordinary school can really cope with a dyslexic child , and I do n't think it 's fair to expect them to do so . |
| 9 | It is counter-productive to expect a 50-year-old patient who is 160 per cent ideal bodyweight to join the ranks of the non-obese ; even if heroic efforts achieve this miraculous transformation , it is very unlikely it could be sustained for 20 years . |
| 10 | The only price level which it is rational to expect if the position of the aggregate demand curve is expected to be AD 1 is P 2 , since only this expectation will generate an actual price level equal to it . |
| 11 | It is ill-advised to expect high-flying academics alone to provide the necessary raw material in our communications industry . |
| 12 | In fact once it reaches a large size , or starts to breed , territoriality will almost certainly make private quarters a necessity — it is relatively peaceful in relation to its size , but — and this applies to many other Central American substrate spawners — it is unreasonable to expect a fish with a natural breeding territory of 10 or more feet in diameter to share a tank with anything else . |
| 13 | But even if that does not arise , it is unreasonable to expect care workers to accept without anxious questioning standards which fall far below those normally required . |
| 14 | It is unreasonable to expect them to tackle problems through their consultants , although if they had independent supervisors this might be possible . |
| 15 | He is , however , prepared to recognize that it is unreasonable to expect McDonald 's to make one p.p.m . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) … ‘ wasted costs ' means any costs incurred by a party — ( a ) as a result of any improper , unreasonable or negligent act or omission on the part of any representative or any employee of a representative ; or ( b ) which , in the light of any such act or omission occurring after they were incurred , the court considers it is unreasonable to expect that party to pay . |
| 17 | It is unreasonable to expect a piece of software to turn you and your computer into their equal in a matter of weeks or even months . |
| 18 | First , it is unreasonable to expect an untrained , unskilled operator to be able to create professional results from a desktop publishing system . |
| 19 | It is unreasonable to expect them to anticipate what additional rights they ought to have . |
| 20 | " Wasted costs " means any costs incurred by a party as a result of any improper , unreasonable or negligent act or omission on the part of any legal or other representative , including their employees , or any costs which , in the light of any such act or omission occurring after they were incurred , the court considers it is unreasonable to expect that party to pay ( s 51(7) ) . |
| 21 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 22 | It is impractical to expect any party to draw trouble on himself by notifying the other of a potential claim . |
| 23 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 24 | I would expect someone who claimed to believe in ghosts to give some evidence for their existence , and it is reasonable to expect the theist to give evidence for God 's existence . |
| 25 | The lesson of history is quite simple : animal experimentation has played a crucial role in many major medical advances and it is reasonable to expect that it will continue to do so . |
| 26 | Since Middle Devonian shelf-edge reefs with stromataporoids and corals outcrop in Devon ( House et al. 1977 ) , it is reasonable to expect these potential reservoirs to occur in the subsurface of the intervening tract . |
| 27 | It is reasonable to expect that public attitudes and beliefs about attempted suicide will affect its incidence . |
| 28 | It is reasonable to expect a line ferret to make a steady rather than spectacular rate of progress . |
| 29 | You ought to expect an agency to behave recognizably like a business : if it does not , it is reasonable to expect that it will be unbusinesslike in other respects . |
| 30 | The time is during the later 1970s ( so it is reasonable to expect that they will speak modern English , with Scottish accents ) . |