Example sentences of "expect [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 2 | Our estate agency loss has been reduced and we expect to see some improvement in this business as the housing market responds to lower interest rates . |
| 3 | Students taking degree courses involving field work ( eg Architecture , Ecology , Geography , and Geology ) can incur expenses of £200 plus , spread over the three , four or five years of the course , but can in most cases expect to receive some help from University funds in meeting these . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 5 | For the first time , every pupil at Key Stage 1 is expected to cover some history ( see Box 1 ) . |
| 6 | Certainly , the habituation process described in Chapter 2 will be engaged during the first stage of a latent inhibition experiment and might be expected to play some part in determining the outcome . |
| 7 | As was the custom , such applicants were expected to do some work in exchange for shelter in the sleeping cell and for their food , and such work was at the discretion of the labour master . |
| 8 | It could be argued that the requirement of regularity is unduly restrictive and reflects the rationale of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , namely , the additional duties imposed on suppliers should only fall on those who can , because of the regularity of their dealings , be expected to have some competence in relation to the goods supplied . |
| 9 | As a result she was present at the important council meetings at the end of the year and it would be surprising if her voice was not heard in the discussions about the future of Aquitaine — all the more so since she could be expected to have some influence over her children , and particularly over Richard . |
| 10 | The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’ |
| 11 | This module would , Minsky suggests , alone have access to the model ( again possibly false , of course ) of how it itself related to all the other , lower , modules , and it might be expected to have some property of the type we refer to as consciousness or self-consciousness . |
| 12 | Candidates will normally be expected to have some postgraduate or teaching experience , although training will be provided by the University 's Centre for Teaching , Learning and Assessment . |
| 13 | Whether the risk is one against which the occupier may reasonably be expected to offer some protection will depend upon factors which are more usually taken into account when assessing the standard of care , e.g. the nature and extent of the risk , practicability of precautions and , possibly , the type of entrant . |
| 14 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |
| 15 | PROPERTY to be made available for a would-be council tenant is expected to raise some interest and a few eyebrows . |
| 16 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
| 17 | ‘ They should teach a guy these things at school , ’ Sam said lamely , as he was clearly expected to make some response . |
| 18 | However , you would be expected to show some knowledge of , and interest in the affairs of the authority in question and of the issues affecting local government generally . |
| 19 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 20 | As he handed Ben the bowl he almost expected to receive some kind of shock — a violent discharge of the child 's unnatural energy — through the medium of the bowl . |
| 21 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 22 | Moderators will expect to see some form of unseen testing within these schemes . |
| 23 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 24 | After their retirement from employment , people in the UK can expect to receive some form of pension . |
| 25 | Erm and I have to say that er I mean if if if for example this was to Well assuming we had H two policy then would n't you expect to make some cross-reference here to your ei policy M eight in your approved structure plan ? |
| 26 | In our own case , if we can wash our face on our UK print run we can expect to make some profit from foreign licences . |
| 27 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 28 | Ice expected to last some time , but look for a few skimmers and perch at Newport on pole and maggot . |
| 29 | ‘ What in God 's name made those noises ? ’ blurted Edgar , looking around , as if expecting to see some scene of carnage . |
| 30 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |