Example sentences of "expect [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if the weather is already hot and the water temperature is 70° F. or more , then the wind suddenly springs up and brings a drop in water temperature and a rise in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water , you can also expect fish . |
| 3 | BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish warned the rest of his expensive stars last night they ca n't always expect £3.3million striker Alan Shearer to save them with one of his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 4 | At the same time we can expect people 's interest in green issues and concern for their local environment to grow . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't see how you can expect people to follow your lead , to trust you , to commit themselves to the business unless they believe that all of these things are dear to your heart . ’ |
| 6 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 7 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 8 | We would , of course , expect people to judge that the passages in which there was a conflict were badly written . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 10 | How do they expect people to visit ? ’ |
| 11 | But do n't expect people wo n't notice , love . |
| 12 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 13 | How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ? |
| 14 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
| 15 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 16 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 17 | ‘ If you will make such a mystery man of yourself , ’ Robbie retorted , ‘ you must expect people to be curious . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ How can you expect people to take you seriously , if you do n't have any convictions about anything ? ’ |
| 19 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 20 | But be warned — he 's an unashamed surrealist and does n't expect people to understand his paintings now any more than they did then . |
| 21 | You have to sell yourself and your ideas this year so do n't expect people to automatically recognise your merit and worth . |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |
| 23 | But how you can expect people to become more sociable by just being , you know , shut behind closed walls , and and not having to actually , fend for themselves and cope with life outside prison walls . |
| 24 | From last year 's figures , the retailer knows that she can expect sales to drop in late February , but to begin to climb again at the end of April . |
| 25 | The longest serving clerical workers , whose responsibilities include juggling patient admissions with spare beds , can only expect £6,235 , that 's even after 25 years ' experience . |
| 26 | One would expect works on Religion , Philosophy and the English Classics in the library of a scholar but it is surprising to find that there are only a handful of books in Gaelicin the collection of one of the translaters of the Holy Scriptures into that language . |
| 27 | Boats fishing the Goodwins Sands can expect codling , thornback ray , whiting and dabs . |
| 28 | It 's an exciting opportunity to see a country that came in from the cold — just do n't expect 130mph plus autobahns ! |
| 29 | This means that German coal producers can expect DM 550 million as coking coal aid and DM 184 million as investment help in 1984 but the government has expressed a disinclination to subsidise exports , which it plans to phase out . |