Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not sufficient that someone had an opportunity to examine the goods , it must be shown that the manufacturer could reasonably expect that person to make an examination . |
| 2 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 3 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 4 | One would expect some cases to get widespread coverage , especially when there is serious re-offending after a previous life sentence . |
| 5 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 6 | MS-DOS 5 was shipped with network shells and drivers and you can expect this trend to continue with version 6 . |
| 7 | Do n't expect this router to produce complex edge patterns using one large cutter : more decorative edges can be formed if the user is patient and makes several simpler profiles which can be fixed together . |
| 8 | Of course , you get what you pay for , and no-one in his right mind would expect this garment to wear or wash as long , or as well as , a fleece jacket of double the price . |
| 9 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |
| 10 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 11 | One would expect extra income to matter more as the unemployment spell lengthens and benefits get reduced . |
| 12 | It is generally assumed that ‘ control ’ is a desirable feature and therefore has an additional premium value , ie purchasers will pay extra to acquire control and vendors will expect extra money to relinquish control . |
| 13 | Miss Cackle could n't expect ordinary guests to bring ladders with them , could she ? |
| 14 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 15 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 16 | We can expect such systems to show varying degrees of ability to acclimatize . |
| 17 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 18 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
| 19 | Where management rewards in publicly owned concerns are institutionally determined , we should expect such concerns to perform less well than privately owned firms in which salaries relate to performance . |
| 20 | Even so we do not expect such spells to lead to permanent changes in our lifestyle . |
| 21 | One would expect such energy to earn him the approval of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem . |
| 22 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 23 | One would expect natural selection to have eliminated the characteristic . |
| 24 | If genes could discover a chink of an unorthodox route through to another body ( alongside , or instead of , the orthodox sperm or egg route ) , we must expect natural selection to favour their opportunism and improve it . |
| 25 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 26 | Do not expect these wines to taste like champagne . |
| 27 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 28 | Normally we 'd expect these buoys to move west in the south equatorial current under the influence of the south easterly trade winds but during alminio winds become weak and westerly and buoys putting off the coast of Peru seemed to wander about aimlessly . |
| 29 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 30 | He said er but of course the thing is they do n't expect elderly ladies to notice their car numbers and remember them . |