Example sentences of "not expect the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had not expected the level of exposure , the narrowness of the arêtes , the commitment .
2 They had not expected the newcomer to speak so soon .
3 He told police he had not expected the fires to spread so quickly , and blamed hot summer weather .
4 There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer .
5 From these two ideas alone , Friedmann showed that we should not expect the universe to be static .
6 Hence in such cases we can not expect the twin goals to be met ; in fact it may be that some compromise position has to be reached .
7 If some risky activities are uninsurable at any price , again we can not expect the price system to guide society to an allocation at which social marginal costs and benefits are equal .
8 And they can not expect the spread between the rates at which they borrow and the rates at which they lend to widen further , helping to pay for these lingering credit problems .
9 He could not expect the support of the Allies , but , more importantly , neither would he face active hostility .
10 He certainly did not expect the shock of a gunshot , cutting through the sounds of the grass .
11 This enabled them to control the activities of people who did not expect the Navigation Acts to be taken seriously .
12 Indeed he does not expect the firm to derive any long-term revenues from object services , common management services or common interface layers .
13 Indeed he does not expect the firm to derive any long-term revenues from object services , common management services or common interface layers .
14 He does not expect the effects of the Budget to be felt locally for some time .
15 Above all , we should not expect the ideology to be straightforward , for it is an ideology , which includes the word ‘ prejudice ’ and the associated value attached to the word .
16 Rumour has it that most of them are unhedged at these levels : they did not expect the currency to rise this far .
17 You must not expect the state alone to cope with them .
18 Even in 1987 voters did not expect the return of a Labour or Conservative government to make a significant difference .
19 He did not expect the lodger to return .
20 It is a modest proposition , but I do not expect the Minister to accept it .
21 I do not expect the Minister to say that the matter is outwith his ministerial remit .
22 I do not expect the Minister to be helpful —
23 On Oct. 24 , 1990 , Attali said that he did not expect the EBRD , which had capitalization of ECU10,000 million ( US$12,400 million ) , to make a profit until 1992 .
24 One can not expect the Government to accept European Community rules about the ’ economically advantageous ’ projects that should be accepted when any scheme goes out to private tender but one can expect consistency .
25 Dr Sagdeev approves , but does not expect the trend to continue , given the budget deficit .
26 Therefore , we should not expect the centre to be omniscient .
27 In practice , a notion of the " distance " between related terms is helpful : the system should not expect the person who searches for " cryogenics " to be particularly satisfied with general works on " physics " .
28 It is , however , pro-Scottish and when the Labour Party has a tiff with its Unionist bed-fellows in the Tory Party it should not expect the SNP 's automatic support .
29 But he did not expect the rice-flail , you know , the sticks joined by a chain .
30 In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate .
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