Example sentences of "not expect [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She knew that junior deacons in their second curacies , even if they came from distinguished clerical families , were not expected to make contributions uninvited when in the presence of very senior clergy . |
2 | As part of the preparation for this programme , which is not expected to commission projects until spring 1987 , a number of position papers have been written and conferences held . |
3 | During the meetings ministers were not expected to raise objections to decisions affecting other ministries , much less to challenge the chair . |
4 | The nobility , clergy and communes of the region were not expected to produce justifi-cations for their tenures , and there was no waving of rusty swords by irate tenants-in-chief ( as in England ) . |
5 | We can not expect to detect boundaries bottom-up , since there seem to be few reliable cues to word boundaries . |
6 | Other Japanese companies-Hitachi , Toshiba , Matsushita — have treated LC TVs more as a design exercise , and do not expect to market models for a while . |
7 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
8 | Hewlett-Packard Co has seen off one of those contemptible shareholder class-action lawsuits : it was filed last August and alleged securities laws violations after the company said that it did not expect to meet analysts ' fiscal third quarter estimates ; the judge dismissed the case after Hewlett persuaded the plaintiffs that they were wasting their time and that of the court . |
9 | But we should be very careful not to expect to send troops all over the world . |