Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think ye should expect the teacher to do everything .
2 No new actor should expect more .
3 Investors should expect to shoulder responsibility for any damage or injury arising after privatisation , and demarcation disputes were likely over liabilities from the past , he said .
4 As the educators of a larger student body , we should expect to ensure that arts graduates are numerate , scientists literate , and both fluent in a foreign language .
5 So we should expect it to have a stronger influence on public information and perceptions than on public attitudes and choices .
6 So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers .
7 We should expect the mass-selling tabloid press to have a stronger influence on public attitudes and choices than on public information and perceptions .
8 Given our findings on perceptions we should expect the press to have more influence than television on attitudes .
9 A new artist with this sort of deal should expect to receive a royalty rate of 10–14 per cent of the retail price .
10 As the Warriors moved on , the section commanders continued to tell their men over the vehicle briefing system what they were to do and what they should expect .
11 Students should expect the Government to meet living costs , but not to cough up for the extra beer and nightclubbing which Richard regards as an important part of student life .
12 AS ARGUMENT over the Government 's health reforms shifts to Parliament , and with line-by-line combat over the National Health Service and Community Care Bill , so attention is focusing on the quality of care we should expect and receive .
13 History suggests that Hongkong Bank should expect the worst after 1997 ; it lost all but one of its 33 branches in mainland China in 1949 .
14 They are right , but they should expect no gratitude after it is over .
15 Iraq is a grim model of what kind of thing the next secretary-general should expect to have thrown at him .
16 But when he says that the real and nominal essences of a mode , such as a triangle , coincide , he really does mean what we should expect him to mean : that our idea of a triangle is like the horologist 's idea of the Strasburg clock , an idea of its real essence , and not like that of the gazing countryman , an idea of some of its properties .
17 However , more aggressive horses , especially colts and stallions , will be more likely to respond to our aggression with aggression , which we should expect .
18 ‘ The market should expect open and honest reporting as a matter of right and those who fall below the required standard should be brought to account , ’ said the Governor .
19 One can understand why people at risk should wish to have these things , but not why they should expect to be given them free .
20 Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity .
21 Where we should expect to match France and Germany for industrial growth , we are about to fall below the levels of Greece and Portugal ’ .
22 Can you please phone me to let me know when Corby should expect to see the title ?
23 An organism able to check the growth of a competing species is fortunate and better equipped to survive , so we should expect that many living organisms are successful exponents of chemical warfare .
24 This is just what we should expect if they are playing Tit for Tat .
25 The payoff matrix in Figure D is what we should expect if they were .
26 So the bacterial genes share a common destiny with their host 's genes , and in my interpretation we should expect the bacteria to cooperate with their beetles in all aspects of life .
27 Just as we should expect , in Chlorohydra the algae transmit themselves to the next generation by means of the hydra 's egg .
28 Few people write a first draft perfectly and you should expect to complete several revisions .
29 Normally you should expect to see percentages shown alongside the original number .
30 Whereas the least you should expect is that any type of funding should be tailor-made for you .
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