Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1991 results are likely to be poor but , as the dominant UK credit insurer operating in the longest and deepest recession for many years , one can hardly expect to see good figures . |
| 2 | In the case of both Interleaf and Xerox 's Documenter the companies have also recognised the importance of being able to accept textual or graphic information from other sources and this is something that we would expect to see other vendors follow suit on . |
| 3 | The implications of this for employment are that we would still expect to see large-scale manufacturing in developed countries , absorbing substantial amounts of labour ( though this labour would be involved in knowledge work rather than metal-bashing ) ; and we would expect to see more labour employed again in small firms producing semi-custom-made products or services using machinery produced by the large companies . |
| 4 | Having said that er we would prefer a quota system for er Stansted because without it , we could have a large number of noisey flights into Stansted and , and also that er in terms of er both this and further consultations we would expect to see full information providing us from er , a to enable us to make a sensible conclusion . |
| 5 | Moderators will expect to see marked work which clearly and helpfully indicates to students the strengths and weaknesses of the work submitted . |
| 6 | Going by their logic , we would expect to see riotous behaviour by stressed small business owners and financial investors at rugby union or American football matches . |
| 7 | Despite food hygiene regulations and the Food Safety Act , it is surprising that one of the principal aids to compliance is often neglected ; where one would expect to see commercial refrigeration it is still not uncommon to find domestic style refrigerators and freezers . |
| 8 | Lastly , the ‘ Pre L ’ and ‘ Pre R ’ outs are the Acousticube 's only stereo outs , so they 'd expect to see considerable use . |
| 9 | Well it was just so funny , it 's just the kind of place you 'd expect to see naughty boys , there was you sitting to the |
| 10 | This becomes more important with increasing age , when people can expect to lose long-standing friends at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 11 | After my tour , I did n't expect to hit top form right away . |
| 12 | Thus one would expect to observe negative coefficients on the current and lagged . |
| 13 | If there were large regions of anti-matter in our galaxy , we would expect to observe large quantities of radiation from the borders between the regions of matter and antimatter , where many particles would be colliding with their antiparticles , annihilating each other and giving off high energy radiation . |
| 14 | As a country , how can we expect to attract inward investment and have the confidence of overseas investors if we hear such remarks from Labour Members ? |
| 15 | If these theories are by and large correct we should expect to find proteinoid globules occurring spontaneously in modern volcanic environments . |
| 16 | Well , do n't you sometimes expect to find mysterious deaths wherever you go ? ’ |
| 17 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 18 | How has modern portfolio theory been used to evaluate portfolio performance and show how and why you might expect to find different performance rankings from the different measures . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 20 | That 's where you might expect to find cold wine . |
| 21 | With her porcelain skin , china doll face and fragile figure , Josephine Mitchell is the last person you 'd expect to find strong-arming thugs around Summer Bay , let alone pinning down macho man Craig McLachlan in a passionate clinch . |
| 22 | But if the child is a paraplegic spina-bifida victim , for example , the receiving teacher should surely expect to receive additional training to equip him/her to cope with the physical implications of the condition . |
| 23 | A US congressional delegation said on Sept. 8 , after meeting both Gamsakhurdia and opposition leaders , that Georgia had to improve its record on human rights before it could expect to receive international recognition . |
| 24 | In this political struggle it is also obvious that non-urban areas can not expect to receive equal treatment because politically their numbers are too small to count against the majority , who being concentrated , can receive more social provision at cheaper cost . |
| 25 | The interviewer will expect to answer pertinent questions . |
| 26 | Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that . |
| 27 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 28 | Conversely , many younger people will be the first generation in their family who can expect to inherit substantial amounts . |
| 29 | Sound quality Do n't expect to get brilliant sound quality from a small speaker . |
| 30 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |