Example sentences of "[noun sg] to expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a policeman at the bottom of the bed , so perhaps it was a silly question to expect Charley to answer . |
| 2 | When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy . |
| 3 | This is clearly undesirable for the nurse , the staff , and most of all the patient , who has a right to expect expert care and attention . |
| 4 | I AM not worried by the tactics of the Tory Whips during the Maastricht debate because any government has the right to expect members elected on its manifesto to push its business through the House . |
| 5 | Parents can abuse their right to expect obedience . |
| 6 | On the other hand heads have every right to expect staff to be well groomed and reasonably dressed at work . |
| 7 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 8 | It was , he said , beyond belief to expect pensioners to chip in to help flood victims . |
| 9 | We believe that in the present climate of great openness to the gospel and of great need in people 's broken lives , it is a godly thing to expect growth and to plant accordingly . |
| 10 | There seemed little reason to expect conditions to be more favourable further east under Mesozoic cover ; few wells enter the thrust sheets which are expected there , and none are deep enough to prove what lies beneath them . |
| 11 | Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first . |
| 12 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 13 | Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills . |
| 14 | If so , there is no reason to expect Novell to keep subsidizing Unix out of altruism . |
| 15 | If so , there is no reason to expect Novell to keep subsidizing Unix out of altruism . ’ |
| 16 | There is no obvious reason to expect sentiment in Denmark to be affected by Britain 's problems but the impression could gain ground that the UK will be able to work out an accommodation with the EC without Maastricht and that there is therefore an alternative for Denmark . |
| 17 | It is usual for the file to be arranged in ascending key sequence , and for the file creation software to expect input to the file to be physically in this order ( on initial creation ) or logically in this order ( when a file with overflow records is reorganized ) . |
| 18 | I do n't know what time to expect dad tonight . |