Example sentences of "expect [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Expect whoops of absurd self-congratulation if they do . |
2 | Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis . |
3 | We can therefore hardly expect change from individual departments : they lack an appreciation of the curriculum as a whole and are inherently inclined to defend their own interests . |
4 | Further , we can expect interactions between pure deictic M-tense concepts and cultural divisions and measures of time to show up in L-tenses . |
5 | So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers . |
6 | If songs have been evolved by males because of competition for mates , one would expect males of polygamous species to have more complex songs than monogamous species . |
7 | How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ? |
8 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
9 | We do n't expect videos from emerging artists because they can be very expensive , ’ explains Gatfield . |
10 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
11 | It is a ludicrous situation of expecting people in high areas of unemployment like the Falls or the Shankill to look for jobs that do n't exist , to train for jobs that are not there . |
12 | By 2001 the government expects 90% of new jobs to be filled by women and that women will form 45% of the labour force ( Employment Gazette April 1990 ) . |
13 | Nobody expects Brigadoon with tartan-skirted villagers singing softly as they fill your arms with sweet heather and invite you in to their fireside . |
14 | By contrast , the panel expects output in continental Europe to tumble by 1% this year . |
15 | It sees no recovery in the world economy in 1993 and expects sales in real terms to be flat . |