Example sentences of "expect more " in BNC.
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| 31 | The purported APLA man added : ‘ White people can expect more such activities this year . ’ |
| 32 | Is everything I did for Miss Elizabeth worthless and am I foolish to expect more of her ? |
| 33 | Already by the late middle ages the English were beginning to expect more space and more privacy in their houses than was to be normal in Scandinavia for another three centuries . |
| 34 | We have to expect more wastage , ca n't keep putting it in and out of the fridge , could poison somebody . |
| 35 | WHEN you 've dragged two successive bosses from burning office blocks , you 're entitled to expect more than a departmental memo by way of thanks . |
| 36 | His mother 's fluent , though inaccurate , English and confident manner may have led them to expect more of him . |
| 37 | It is felt by the Senior Management Team that the number of pupils achieving a very good standard of work which is reflected in high examination results could , in fact , be greater if the department were prepared to expect more of their pupils . |
| 38 | Expecting more of the same , she was n't looking forward to the seminar that followed . |
| 39 | Many young people coming into industry and commerce have a basic knowledge of marketing techniques and employers are expecting more of their marketing people . |
| 40 | I expected more of you but perhaps you deserve a second chance . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ She expected more than I was prepared to give . |
| 42 | He says that he expected more mud slinging ; Dowty has been very gentlemanly so far . |
| 43 | The travel industry expects more cutbacks as holidays are sacrificed to meet the mounting cost of household bills . |
| 44 | Roche took St Jovite into No. 1 spot , but the photo went against him and Dr Devious 's trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam expects more improvement from his horse . |
| 45 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 46 | When a mite climbs on to a worker ant 's chin , it expects more than just a free ride ( photographed at about 20 times life size ) . |