Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expect British Rail to give urgent consideration to the timing of the placement of that order . |
| 2 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 3 | I was more surprised than gratified , for without having really considered it I would have expected unsolicited adoration to annoy Nour , to lead to stone-throwing … |
| 4 | His bosses , the directors , say they look forward to next year , when they expect new business to increase . |
| 5 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 6 | It is generally assumed that ‘ control ’ is a desirable feature and therefore has an additional premium value , ie purchasers will pay extra to acquire control and vendors will expect extra money to relinquish control . |
| 7 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 8 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 9 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 10 | On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour . |
| 11 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 12 | Just how that 's going to be accomplished we do n't know , we 're not party to the discussions , we understand that the Greater York authorities do plan to meet shortly after the end of this examination , but just what further work is necessary before they then get onto the location aspects we do n't know about that , all I would say is that we would expect final plan to have the general location of a new settlement embodied in in that plan before it is approved . |
| 13 | Williams , who saw his initial Derby prospect , Pond Tornado , eliminated , said : ‘ I would expect New Level to win his heat but Pond Pavarotti is on a wing and a prayer . |
| 14 | Why , why might we expect structural change to occur in this example ? |
| 15 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 16 | They also wished and expected charitable effort to grow . |
| 17 | It would be too much to expect convergent evolution to have produced a single thrifty genotype in all populations by chance , and the most likely situation is that several genes have been selected in different combinations , in different populations , to produce a phenotypically similar syndrome . |
| 18 | It is perhaps unreasonable to expect Continental evidence to represent accurately the styles of dress worn in early Anglo-Saxon England . |
| 19 | On June 5 in Oslo , in a speech accepting the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize , Gorbachev said that " now that perestroika has entered its critical phase , the Soviet Union is entitled to expect large-scale support to assure its success " , and warned that " if perestroika fails the prospect of entering a new peaceful period in history will vanish " . |
| 20 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |