Example sentences of "expect [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest she opened the window for someone else , and did n't expect her own fingerprints to be taken . |
| 2 | Olivetti says it does n't expect its newest machine , MIPS ' ARCsystems or the rest of the ACE consortium 's MIPS offerings to have any real impact on the market for the next two or three years , leaving Intel Corp 's dynasty intact for some time to come . |
| 3 | However , Rangers do not expect their stalling tactics to deter Rovers , and they will be unable to refuse a £4m offer unless they are poised to claim honours of their own . |
| 4 | If glass vessels were prestigious drinking vessels , one might expect their cheaper equivalents to appear in the ceramic assemblage ; true skeuomorphs are not present amongst the pottery , although there is a strong similarity between the turned wooden vessels with metal rims from the Sutton Hoo mound I ship burial and the squat jars of Harden 's type VIII ( 1956b ; 1978 ) . |
| 5 | This is a difficult year for the world as a whole , so Taureans must expect their fair share of pressure . |
| 6 | the Russians — you 'd expect their nuclear power stations to go wrong . |
| 7 | A noble individual , such as Nithard himself , could reasonably expect his royal lord to look after his interests and reward faithful service with beneficia ( literally " good deeds " ) , meaning grants of lands or of honores , " offices " which carried lands with them : hence the linguistic distinction between honor and beneficium became blurred . |
| 8 | But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education . |
| 9 | I realise that there are constraints of time and problems with dissemination , but you would not expect your local GP to prescribe a drug unless he was satisfied that its use was justified by reference to the available research material . |
| 10 | She 'll expect your full attention — ’ |
| 11 | Given all the millennia we have to play with in the stratigraphical record , we can expect our periodic catastrophes to do all the work we want of them . |