Example sentences of "if [pron] [be] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 2 | Every day it was : ‘ If she 's expecting I 'll rescue her off the streets … ’ |
| 3 | She wondered for a moment if she was expected to answer . |
| 4 | If you are expecting jokes , they are seldom as good in fact as in prospect . |
| 5 | If the interviewer remains silent then look at her or him as if you are expecting the next move to come from their side . |
| 6 | If you are expecting to hear tracks from their ‘ Ptooff ’ or ‘ Disposable ’ classics here then be prepared to be mightily disappointed . |
| 7 | 6 The current whereabouts of the picture if you are expecting it to be returned , and a regular reminder procedure . |
| 8 | If you are expecting thousands of entries the format will need to be such that it is easy to eliminate incorrect entries . |
| 9 | If you 're expecting trouble it 's worth consulting your doctor early as some treatments work best if started in advance . |
| 10 | But if you 're expecting to import data from a PC , then first check the long list of unsupported 1-2-3 commands , each of which generates an error message on the Portfolio . |
| 11 | ‘ You must think I 'm an inconsiderate devil if you 're expecting to be thrown in at the deep end to struggle as best you can . ’ |
| 12 | because if you 're expecting it to perform like , I mean it 's not gon na perform like that if it 's the sixteen hundred in a heavier body car is it ? |
| 13 | If you were expecting to find a neck something akin to a telegraph pole with one side levelled off , you 'd be pleasantly surprised — this is an extremely comfortable and well-shaped laminate of mainly flamed maple . |
| 14 | If you were expecting the graceful and chaste fluidity of Swan Lake , you would surely have got the right gunk . |
| 15 | Sunwatchers : if you were expecting Texas Instruments to formally announce the Viking chip before Sun trots out its Viking boxes May 19 , take heart . |
| 16 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 17 | Clearly , if we are expecting our advertising to work in a particular way , against a particular sub-group of consumers , we should do our research in such a way that it will show up this sort of effect . |
| 18 | If we are expecting a good level of practice from proprietors , whether private proprietors or statutory , then we have not to expect them to be out of pocket at the end of the day as a result . |
| 19 | John rather 's expectations regarding the amounts , they 're very ambitious indeed and I ca n't speak for Salisbury Park but if we 're expected to pay a share of any alterations and so forth erm it would be very difficult for us to meet that commitment . |
| 20 | And they 'd only be significant if we were expecting a significant disproportion anyway |
| 21 | If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index . |
| 22 | It 's as if they 're expecting you to fail academically ; and , if the teacher expects you to fail , then you begin to believe it yourself and you do . |
| 23 | If they are expecting something that they have n't got , it may well be that their expectation is wrong . |
| 24 | If they are expecting something that they have n't got , it may well be that their expectation is wrong . |
| 25 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 26 | The difficulty over these cars had arisen because the Brush Co. had demanded an appropriate charge if they were expected to store them at their works in Loughborough . |
| 27 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 28 | Affectivity is only incomprehensible if it is expected that emotions can be translated into thoughts with a proposition contained within them . |
| 29 | Was it only their affectation , to be afraid of it , as if it was expected of them . |
| 30 | But she said that almost as if it were expected of her rather than with conviction — and the family knew it . |