Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Five years , ’ ( Kenneth 's back in deep-freeze ) , ‘ but I would expect you to do better . ’ |
| 2 | There may be some , but I would expect that this time sum , er or close to it , will be the final balance , and that , of course , will flow into the general balances of the County Council , and er , a one million pounds was allocated from the contingency , that finance sub-committee in October , to meet the price , er , to meet a prices inflation . |
| 3 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
| 4 | But I shall expect film directors to call me Sir Anthony . |
| 5 | As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging . |
| 6 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 7 | But you 'd expect , when he unpacks a python , there 's pandemonium . |
| 8 | But you 'd expect me to ask it . |
| 9 | He has sub-titled his talk ‘ A Layman 's View ’ , but you can expect some thought-provoking views . |
| 10 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 11 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 12 | But who would expect it to have a place in fire extinguishers and on oil rigs ? |
| 13 | Clearly there is considerable travel within the UK but we would expect you to spend one or two days a week in our offices so you would need to live within a 100 mile radius of Bracknell . |
| 14 | But we would expect potential partners to be sympathetic , because surely healthy and sustainable stocks are to the advantage of everyone with a long-term interest in Namibia 's fisheries . ’ |
| 15 | That 's right , but we would expect it to be subsumed in the numbers of overall requirements for housing . |
| 16 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 17 | Given our financial priorities , we will not be challenging the big six in Europe but we can expect to be an increasingly strong player . |
| 18 | Cloud amounts will vary but we can expect some warm sunshine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The mill at Ballygrant is of the nineteenth century but one would expect that there was an older one at Baile Grana Grain Township , and one at Cornabus Corn Farm , comes as no surprise . |
| 21 | This may not be covered in the initial simple descriptions of the portfolio grids , but one would expect the underlying risk analysis to include such matters . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But they will expect rewards for their loyalty later , which augurs badly for forthcoming debates on both the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , which many liberals oppose , and on welfare reform . |
| 24 | Erm , I have n't yet visited the archivist department , but they can expect me , |
| 25 | They are right , but they should expect no gratitude after it is over . |
| 26 | But he might expect you to trust your estuary lands more than you should , and give him battle west of Dunedin where he would have you between his ships and his army . |
| 27 | ‘ But he must expect that every week now . |