Example sentences of "[vb base] expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course they deny responsibility , blaming any trouble on weekend ravers who they say expect ‘ something for nothing ’ . |
| 2 | Social workers appear to expect few benefits to accrue from residential care . |
| 3 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 4 | Well , obviously that s all I can say — Kuemann ( ? ) has a good strike too etc , but look at that company … all allegedly world class players … youd expect them to have a half decent free kick : - ) All those players are acclaimed too . |
| 5 | The tippee need not only knowingly obtain the information from an individual connected with a company ( as defined above ) who he knows or has reasonable cause to believe holds the information by being so connected , he must also know or have reasonable cause to expect that individual not to disclose that information save for the proper performance of that individuals duties . |
| 6 | In other words the tippee must , first , obtain from an individual , information which he knows to be unpublished price sensitive information ; secondly , he must know that the individual is a ‘ connected individual ’ within the meaning of the legislation ; thirdly , he must know or have reasonable cause to believe that that individual holds the information by virtue of being so connected ; and finally , he must know or have reasonable cause to expect that that individual should not have disclosed the information save for the proper performance of that individual 's duties . |
| 7 | Stop expecting anything from them . |
| 8 | People communicate mainly verbally , and tend to expect horses to understand not only precise commands like ‘ whoa ! ’ and ‘ trot ! ’ , but also words with a more abstract meaning like ‘ steady ! ’ and ‘ easy ! ’ . |
| 9 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 10 | Since Caliban is often performed in the modern theatre as if he were a later version of Thersites , we tend to expect him to be a prose-speaker . |
| 11 | We tend to expect pupils to find words in dictionaries , because we assume it is a skill which is simply acquired . |
| 12 | Doctors , matrons and sisters in hospitals tend to practise an autocratic style ; managers/directors who own their company also tend to expect things to be done their way ; |
| 13 | I think perhaps one difference is they 've become much larger and more complicated and I certainly think that parents in particular tend to expect far more of schools now than they used to . |
| 14 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 15 | ‘ I seem to expect the whole happiness and sweetness to come from you ’ , he wrote as he warned Helen that she should find a real need for patience with him . |
| 16 | You and Daddy seem to expect a freedom for yourselves you have no intention of awarding me . ’ |
| 17 | Indeed the public seem to expect those committed to a particular service to extol its virtues . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're surprised , when you seem to expect other people to be naïve enough to remain blind to what you 're trying to do , ’ Maria flared edgily , thinking of Cavell especially . |
| 19 | However , members of the public and councillors still seem to expect me to know every detail about every file in the department — an impossible task for anyone ! |
| 20 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 21 | He suggested that when subjects know to expect verbal stimuli , attentional mechanisms prime the left hemisphere for reception of this material and it is this attentional bias , rather than any inherent perceptual advantage , which gives rise to the right hemifield superiority in word and letter recognition typically obtained with unilateral stimulus presentation . |
| 22 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 23 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |
| 24 | So when the actual rate of inflation rises to 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 , people continue to expect zero inflation for a while and only in the long-run do they revise their expectations upwards towards 4 per cent . |
| 25 | And as you say , all we can do is wait , and continue to expect Doctor Morris to turn up in his own good time . |
| 26 | You keep expecting the spell to be shattered , especially as Michael Kitchen is around looking much like the villains he has played lately , but it remains intact . |
| 27 | Normally , I would n't care two hoots , but having come home unexpectedly , and with the thought of our marriage dazzling me , I 'm so happy that I keep expecting some obstacle to turn up . |
| 28 | I keep expecting to hear you and Cora-Beth are making a go of it ? |
| 29 | I keep expecting the world to make sense . |
| 30 | The young prune wears his tie crooked , and I keep expecting the policeman to lean forward and straighten it . |