Example sentences of "not expect the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told police he had not expected the fires to spread so quickly , and blamed hot summer weather . |
| 2 | He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time . |
| 3 | In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate . |
| 4 | But you can not expect the taxpayers to provide extra help for one-parent families unless someone tries to ensure that the money only goes to families which really do have only one parent in them . |
| 5 | Ferguson said : ‘ It will be a very tight game and I do not expect the Russians to be too adventurous . |
| 6 | He told Mr Justice Michael Davies and the jury he did not expect the Cossacks to be massacred without trial — the fate of many thousands . |
| 7 | We do not expect the elders of our own party to join this unhelpful cause . |
| 8 | Naturally , I do not expect the apologists on the Government Front Bench to criticise the Government 's policies , still less to condemn their actions . |
| 9 | Using this as a starting point , we would not expect the kinds of social pressure defined by anomie-type theories to force change from one finite state to the other . |
| 10 | I noted the Handbook clearly stated that you were not to expect the police to break into a sweat over your losses . |
| 11 | The police came within half an hour and the officer was sympathetic although he advised me not to expect the thieves to be caught . |
| 12 | But Mr Szilagy and his staff are not expecting the citizens of Budapest to flock in their thousands to see the collection of ugly lifeless forms . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't expected the papers to pick up on Thomas 's birth , ’ she went on , ‘ but when they did and when it was taken for granted that he was Simon 's I let that be , too . ’ |
| 14 | What I had n't expected was the reaction we got here today which is that erm whilst there are smiling dis , he 's smiling now , there are smiling districts who might be pleased to be named as areas in which a major exception might be accommodated and I had n't expected the others would like a bit of it if there was one going too . |
| 15 | Even if I had n't expected the gunships , their colours would have told me what they were . |
| 16 | They had n't expected the terrorists to turn up for at least another two days . |
| 17 | Erm , specialist newspapers , I really do n't expect the Times erm , to have any effect on the F T's sale . |
| 18 | That means joint commissioning , you have an example later on in your agenda in relation to learning disability services , I think it 's items nine , nine and eleven , erm , er , perhaps the most controversial part of the proposals that I 've , I 've put before the authorities , is that you do n't expect the structures for joint care planning to carry the full weight of joint commissioning when you 're talking about main budgets . |
| 19 | ‘ We expected Uri to bend a few spoons but we did n't expect the viewers to bend the truth , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Although I did n't expect the floods to be as high as they were my friend , Matthew , and I had planned to go out in this American style canoe . |
| 21 | This confirms previous reports last week strenuously denied by both Digital and Ingres UK management : both parties say ‘ negotiations ’ on the deal are currently under way at the DECWorld extravaganza in Boston , but do n't expect the cards to fall any other way . |
| 22 | The company troubled by problems of getting the database off the mainframe and running on local area networks and Unix , did n't expect the modifications to be so extensive . |