Example sentences of "expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent did n't expect the twelve thicknesses of cotton sheet to last but each minute that they held would gain precious distance . |
| 2 | For the economy as a whole , we can expect the total demand for money for transactions purposes to depend directly on money national income . |
| 3 | From common sense one would not expect the mere possession of a regular , orderly arrangement of atoms or molecules to be a cause of weakness , and of course it is n't . |
| 4 | Coun Scott , who is also a Tory member of Darlington Council , said : ‘ The plans for the unit are proceeding as expected and we would expect the tender documents to be in within a few days . ’ |
| 5 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 6 | Just as you would expect the fabulous Theme Park combined America 's colourful past , present and future in one glorious location , and those same world famous attractions you can see in California and Florida — MAIN STREET USA , FRONTIERLAND , ADVENTURELAND , FANTASYLAND , DISCOVERYLAND — will all be lovingly re-created right here in Europe . |
| 7 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 8 | Hm , I 'll expect the other friends will take something . |
| 9 | Indeed , how much longer can we expect the other provinces to continue carrying us ? |
| 10 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 11 | In such a situation , action is likely to be the product of internal negotiation , with variable dependence upon rational analysis , and one might expect the rational analysis undertaken to have a different orientation according to the stakeholder for whom it is performed ( Hall , 1973 ) . |
| 12 | Since the Soviet Union had no forces in the region , or only token forces in the 1950s and 1960s it is likely that Soviet leaders did not expect the Western allies to take these early proposals altogether seriously . |
| 13 | Although Sir Campbell did not expect the strong sales growth of the first half to continue , he anticipated satisfactory results for the full year . |
| 14 | Whichever of the possibilities is realised in practice , we would expect the two languages — Creole and unrelated Standard — to retain their integrity as languages and not to converge linguistically to any great extent , except in terms of vocabulary : in other words , they are likely to remain fundamentally dissimilar in their grammar and phonology . |
| 15 | Managers did not expect the two pieces of equipment would compete with each other . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 17 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 18 | In effect , as McKay and Cox indicate ( 1979 , p. 255 ) , ‘ no sensible observer inside government or out could expect the limited measure announced in 1977 to transform the inner city ’ . |
| 19 | On average , one would expect the faint sources to be the more distant ones . |
| 20 | Will the Leader of the House confirm that although few people in Britain would expect the Prime Minister to match President Yeltsin bottle for bottle , they will find it odd that the Government insist on increasing or doubling Britain 's nuclear fire power when both the Russians and the Americans see good reasons for cutting theirs ? |
| 21 | This consists of : The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Although there is no legal requirement for companies to comply with SSAP9 , auditors will expect the financial accounts of companies to meet the guidelines laid down . |
| 22 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 23 | TOURISTS going abroad can expect the following rates for sterling : |
| 24 | Eventually we can expect the central mark ( which tells us which region we are in at the moment ) to have moved to parts of the two sequences which are quite different . |
| 25 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 26 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 27 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 28 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 29 | Ignorance is not a credible excuse and any practitioner found in serious breach of regulations — which have been with us now for more than four years — can expect the Joint Monitoring Unit to be less than sympathetic . |
| 30 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |