Example sentences of "expect [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would we , for example , expect adaptors to feel better when working on projects in the Q4 area , and innovators in the Q1 area ( Kirton , 1976 ) ? |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you had never expected Faith to have any money of her own ? ’ she asked . |
| 3 | I expect Joseph knew that and took advantage of it . ’ |
| 4 | Expect things to go wrong a lot of the time . |
| 5 | I expect people to regard this as my house and not to abuse my privacy . |
| 6 | Dictionary authors expect users to perform regular morphological processing themselves . |
| 7 | I still expect Italy to win this group . |
| 8 | Audiences today expect choreographers to satisfy current demands . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have expected claims to become due before 2005 or 2010 , so the payment has been accelerated . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In a bear market you normally expect shares to drop 15 to 25 per cent over 18 months . |
| 11 | This year we expect consumers to spend some £80 billion on leisure — almost one quarter of consumer spending . |
| 12 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 13 | And can we expect states to allow non-coercive jural agencies to gather information in an effective manner when this involves the divulgence of state secrets , even if this is seen as the only way to secure confidence in , for instance , disarmament treaties ? |
| 14 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 15 | Given his belief that the idea that objects exist independently of a perceiving mind contains ‘ a manifest contradiction ’ , one might expect Berkeley to provide some explanation of why anyone should mistakenly have it . |
| 16 | Can we expect individuals to enjoy equal rights and participation in their social lives and yet work under an authoritarian structure at the workplace that gives them little responsibility and allows them little scope for participation ? |
| 17 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 18 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 19 | We are now in DIP 's third phase of evolution where we can expect vendors to supply comprehensive workflow software , providing intelligent automation of office tasks and complete integration with other computer systems in the business , as well as the automatic routing of document images to those who need to work with them . |
| 20 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 21 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 22 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 23 | One might expect politicians to talk fast and academics endorsing the view that the European Community is something so new and sui generis that the age old problems of the rivalry between peoples and states can be overcome through it . |
| 24 | I hope Sarah would n't expect Julie to stay any later would she ? |
| 25 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 26 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 27 | It is unrealistic to expect GPs to fund such studies , although some have been undertaken by central government ( Anderson , 1989 ) . |
| 28 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 29 | It would be quite wrong to expect society to pay potential polluters ( minerals companies ) hundred of millions of pounds to compensate them for not damaging the environment . |
| 30 | To expect SARFU to squeeze first-world profits from the new third-world South Africans , when the 1991 World Cup did n't achieve the expected profits — even from first-world venues — would , in my long held view , not only be unrealistic but immoral . |