Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 It had always been generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems , though it expected high standards of dress and deportment and lateness , absenteeism and incivility were not tolerated .
2 Individuals use their radio and television sets in different ways and for different purposes , and expect different things of them .
3 They expect high levels of performance .
4 Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour .
5 ‘ The Church must stand alongside every family like that — not actually put the Royal Family on a pedestal and expect impossible things of them . ’
6 Analysts expect full-year profits of £250m compared with Pounds 222m .
7 If you expect larger numbers of simultaneous QA activities , increase this parameter before running CREFDL .
8 We expect great things of you . ’
9 But expect five days of fast , highly tactical racing between Brussels and Mulhouse .
10 Expect several hours of points of order , disruption and bad tempers galore this afternoon and evening .
11 So expect two years of dull , decent , gritty competence , explain the Major-domos — and steady , unspectacular results .
12 I expect most women of your age have had lovers ; not so many would admit it . ’
13 As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge .
14 Though you might expect some echoes of a Telecaster or a Les Paul Junior , it actually sounds like neither .
15 With such differences in the quantity and quality of mosaics one might expect different levels of stylistic affinity — and combinations of these levels — to be prominent .
16 In retirement we must achieve a state of calm , for we can not expect large segments of our lives to be filled with ecstasy .
17 We should not expect three classes of behaviour corresponding to the three processes of adaptation .
18 Sentencing , Judge David Bryant told the gang : ‘ Dishonest people like you who choose to make your living out of stealing , transforming and selling other people 's motor cars can expect substantial sentences of imprisonment . ’
19 Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere .
20 In the fruit line , you can expect small helpings of peaches and pears .
21 Hello darling , come on I said to her when she goes back to Tumbletots I shall expect big things of her .
22 That is to say , for 100 feet of water one could only expect 240 feet of sediment of normal density .
23 If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor .
24 We must therefore expect certain aspects of computer design to reappear throughout the book , to be seen from a slightly different angle each time .
25 If the contention of Pollak and others is correct that the roles of women reduce the public display of deviance , then it is indeed in such ‘ private ’ areas that one would expect female forms of deviance to be located .
26 Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable .
27 Those who are caring for the bereaved need to be prepared to expect all kinds of strange reactions and uncharacteristic behaviour from them occasionally .
28 College Principal Clive Brain says there 's a growing demand for technological education and he 's expecting large numbers of applicants .
29 But I 'm expecting great things of you , too . "
30 Fifty thousand went to America last year , the stricter regulations there have switched attention to Israel , which expects three quarters of a million in the next five years .
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