Example sentences of "not expect [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not expected the level of exposure , the narrowness of the arêtes , the commitment . |
| 2 | They had not expected the newcomer to speak so soon . |
| 3 | He told police he had not expected the fires to spread so quickly , and blamed hot summer weather . |
| 4 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 5 | It is important not to be brutal in this respect : one can not expect a puppy to go all through the night and be clean in the morning — it is physically impossible . |
| 6 | We would therefore not expect a yield curve to be constructed using both government and corporate bonds , since these would be from different risk classes . |
| 7 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 8 | Normally you 'd not expect a problem in those circumstances . |
| 9 | Viktor Chernomyrdin , the prime minister and leading Gosplanner , said before the referendum that he did not expect a majority to support Mr Yeltsin 's economic policies . |
| 10 | The mind does not expect a swallow until after a chew so now I chew a small piece of biscuit and then pop in the Paracetamol and swallow without difficulty . |
| 11 | With goals so limited , one should not expect a revolution in residential environments to emerge from current British research . |
| 12 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 13 | But if expectations are rationally formed , the government can not expect a policy of linking the change in the money supply to the previous price level to succeed , for people will not be fooled by it . |
| 14 | If you have had a weight problem for a long time , do not expect a miracle in a few weeks . |
| 15 | In Lamb , above , the accused pulled the trigger of a gun and killed his best friend , but there was no assault because both did not expect a bullet to come out of the barrel . |
| 16 | Since the subjects in Study 2 did not expect a recognition phase it was clearly not sufficient to simply repeat the study without subjects making any judgments , instead judgment tasks had to be found that were not related to risk and were still sufficiently engaging for subjects not to suspect a memory test afterwards . |
| 17 | In the Muslim republics , nationalism was espoused first and foremost by fundamentalist religious groups from which the urban population did not expect a market economy and democracy . |
| 18 | Officials insisted they did not expect a Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 19 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 20 | Clearly it is not every year that the government introduces massive changes to social security legislation and the IPG would not expect an exercise of this size again for many years . |
| 21 | He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer . |
| 22 | A rhetorical question is a question you ask in order to create an effect ; you do not expect an answer and instead offer one yourself . |
| 23 | From these two ideas alone , Friedmann showed that we should not expect the universe to be static . |
| 24 | Hence in such cases we can not expect the twin goals to be met ; in fact it may be that some compromise position has to be reached . |
| 25 | If some risky activities are uninsurable at any price , again we can not expect the price system to guide society to an allocation at which social marginal costs and benefits are equal . |
| 26 | And they can not expect the spread between the rates at which they borrow and the rates at which they lend to widen further , helping to pay for these lingering credit problems . |
| 27 | He could not expect the support of the Allies , but , more importantly , neither would he face active hostility . |
| 28 | He certainly did not expect the shock of a gunshot , cutting through the sounds of the grass . |
| 29 | This enabled them to control the activities of people who did not expect the Navigation Acts to be taken seriously . |
| 30 | Indeed he does not expect the firm to derive any long-term revenues from object services , common management services or common interface layers . |