Example sentences of "expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the economy as a whole , we can expect the total demand for money for transactions purposes to depend directly on money national income . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hence , one might expect the middle class to opt for the political party most likely to conserve the existing state of affairs . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Instead , the times when one would expect the ultradian rhythm to produce a burst of activity or feeding drop out . |
| 13 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We would expect the best response from people who are re-evaluating their lives — a change of work , home or relationship — allowing their beliefs to be re-considered , ’ says Henry . |
| 18 | With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ? |
| 19 | In long-run equilibrium , we would expect the real return on a firm 's investments to equal its cost of capital , i.e. r= p . |
| 20 | Prolonged rainfall , on the other hand , provides massive dilution and little visibility , and in these circumstances the field officer will expect the first flush of urban run-off to bring oil , solids , and other matter washed from streets and buildings into his streams . |
| 21 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
| 22 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 23 | Or do you expect the poor beast to get off and skip round on its own for you ? ’ |
| 24 | Memorex reported a $120m net loss for the nine months to December and the New York rating agency says that it does not expect the fourth quarter net outturn to be much better . |
| 25 | But how can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? |
| 26 | It was disappointing , though , that he seemed to be knocking the efforts of those with other aims : ‘ How can we expect the Brazilian Government to care for trees when it does n't care for many of its people ? ’ |
| 27 | The football stable must be cleansed and further breakages of the law regarding payments will be dealt with in such a severe manner that I now give warning that clubs and players must not expect the slightest leniency … |
| 28 | When does the right hon. Gentleman expect the next tranche of type 23 orders , to which he did not refer in his statement , to be in the pipeline and when can we expect the next round of tendering to start for those ? |
| 29 | Perhaps , as with the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , this is where we may expect the next rifting , though I doubt if it will happen soon enough to substantiate my idea . |
| 30 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |