Example sentences of "expect any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Few shopkeepers expect any upturn in the next few months , ’ said a CBI spokesman . |
| 2 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 3 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't have expected any relation of Caro 's to be such an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy . |
| 5 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 6 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 7 | Rather it was precisely to change attitudes , to stress individual responsibility — you 're on your own , do n't expect any help from us — and to reduce the state 's obligations . |
| 8 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
| 9 | Neither Mr Fallon nor Mr Bergg can expect any help from the borough council . |
| 10 | Therefore the chances are , and this is statistical , it 's a statistical chance , in general I can expect any mutation in me to be passed on to half my offspring complete . |
| 11 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 12 | ‘ Arthur does n't expect any nonsense from him till July . |
| 13 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 14 | I ca n't expect any favours from Graham Gooch in that direction . |
| 15 | The vendor will , however , expect any estimate to be reasonably accurate and may ask for our fees to be capped at a certain level . |
| 16 | Analysts do not expect any move for Ferranti until the radar contract is awarded , though one possible bidder — British Aerospace — has already ruled itself out . |
| 17 | Analysts do not expect any move for Ferranti until the radar contract is awarded , though one possible bidder — British Aerospace — has already ruled itself out . |
| 18 | I use the term " child " here in contradistinction to " parent " — not all incest involves juveniles — but one would expect any effect to be more marked the younger the child concerned . |
| 19 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 20 | The study identifies few holdings where the occupiers could claim ‘ primary dependence on farming as a livelihood ’ , and that there was no valid reason for those farmers to expect any benefit from the CAP . |
| 21 | Second , although there is no reason to expect any model to be other than linear and additive , there is an argument , presented by Flowerdew ( 1988 ) , which says that since the response variable compromises count data , the appropriate regression model should combine a Poisson error distribution with an identity link function ( see Aitkin et al. 1989 ; 217 ) . |
| 22 | Bernard Moing , Univel 's regional marketing manager for Europe says , ‘ we 're not expecting any returns on UnixWare until the first quarter of 1993 , and then the take up will be limited for a further period . ’ |
| 23 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 24 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |