Example sentences of "expect any [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some reason for his bewilderment , for Anselm does not seem to have desired or expected any practical result from this consultation except a possible release from his archbishopric . |
| 2 | Society boss Geoffrey Lister said he did not expect any economic recovery in the immediate future . |
| 3 | It is arguable that it is not , because since the contract allows the seller to vary the delivery date , the seller has performed exactly in accordance with the contract , and the buyer can not reasonably expect any other peformance . |
| 4 | The patients realise this and they do not expect any effective help anymore : medicines , sutures , needles are all scarce or absent . |
| 5 | This new world will also be one in which we can not expect any new carrier to be able to enter the airline market to any competitive extent owing to lack of the large resources required . |
| 6 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 7 | So do n't expect any preferential treatment or to be invited to meet the stars at their Christmas party . |
| 8 | It must be emphasised that you can not expect any financial support from the University . |
| 9 | However , they do not expect any radical revision to emerge in the run-up to legislation . |
| 10 | The view might be held that s3 has no application to such a clause , because s3 only applies to clauses under which the proferens purports to be entitled to a performance diffferent from that reasonably expected , whereas the effect of the clause quoted above is to define the performance which may reasonably be expected of the seller , so that the buyer can not reasonably expect any particular delivery date . |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't expect any dramatic response initially , ’ she says . |
| 12 | Clyde also said that it did not expect any significant impact from last year 's Budget tax changes which restricted tax relief on future exploration spending . |
| 13 | The numbers and types of printers have increased rapidly in the last three years , but we would not expect any rapid increase in numbers in the next three years . |
| 14 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 15 | This time , however , Baghdad had no reason to expect any such present . |
| 16 | She flew back to Lima and wrote to all her clients telling them not to expect any more craft goods : she was quitting and going to work in the jungle . |
| 17 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 18 | I know of no realistic reason for expecting any sixth-form college to introduce charges of the kind described . |
| 19 | Thus , we would suggest , there is , as yet at least , little basis for expecting any particular change in the political attitude and behaviour of these workers apart , perhaps , from the spread of the more calculative — more rational — outlook ’ |
| 20 | If he expected any other price level he would not be acting rationally since he would not be forming his expectation of the price level in line with the process determining it ; that is , the aggregate supply and demand process depicted in figure 4.4 . |
| 21 | Sir Peter Holmes , Shell 's chairman who admitted that he was ‘ astonished ’ to discover that the irregularities had occurred through an associate company failing to follow strict rules against speculative dealing , said that he expected any further exposure to be limited to a £65 million charge which the company would take in its accounts for the first quarter of 1993 . |