Example sentences of "expect [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general condition was extremely dangerous and one could expect difficulty in trying to gain any access as the stairway was so derelict . |
| 2 | We can therefore hardly expect change from individual departments : they lack an appreciation of the curriculum as a whole and are inherently inclined to defend their own interests . |
| 3 | Explain why you might expect division to perform better than a ‘ perfect ’ randomizing algorithm , and by how much . |
| 4 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 5 | Neither semantics nor logic requires V P structure , a priori , that is there 's no particular reason why you 'd expect verb phrase structuring in particular from either of those two enterprises , because either could get by with er either the flat structure Florence teased Dougal , that 's the structure in T three three separate constituents , or teased Florence Dougal where teased is one constituent and Florence Dougal is another which is the way we most standardly do it calculus and that works fine . |
| 6 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 7 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 8 | Directors do not normally expect payment for their services though a small gift might be appropriate . |
| 9 | Expatriates returning home at the end of their tour of duty can expect payment of travel expenses to their homes and hotel accommodation if necessary . |
| 10 | ‘ I will bring the shoes I am making for you now , the ones with the amethysts as decoration and I will expect payment for the work I 've done , mind . |
| 11 | Some sub-contractors , particularly when paid on the lump or a daywork basis , may expect payment on a Friday , up to and including that day , but from the builder 's point of view it is preferable to keep a week in hand . |
| 12 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 13 | You can expect 24–hour room service served up on time and with the minimum of fuss . |
| 14 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 15 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |
| 16 | Given that the net flow of support is normally from older to younger generations , we should expect support in this direction to be more extensive . |
| 17 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |
| 18 | You may expect direction and advice which will not be forthcoming . |
| 19 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 20 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 21 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
| 22 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't expect sympathy . |
| 24 | WHEN we cast our votes at election time , we do n't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue but we do expect honesty and integrity — traits completely lacking in this discredited Government . |
| 25 | With a Basis Loan our proportion of the equity is normally 10–20% — and Barclays will not expect board representation . |
| 26 | From the teeming slums of Rio de Janeiro to hurricane-blasted Florida and Louisiana … almost anywhere can expect coverage by the aptly named Shell World . |
| 27 | He saw that the man was one who would expect privilege . |
| 28 | Could he expect Nebamun to do it for him ? |
| 29 | People with AIDS or HIV infection can expect progress in therapy against HIV and the conditions found in AIDS — anti-viral drugs like Zidovudine are in use . |
| 30 | As the action of an LCR is postulated to be mediated by a variety of transacting factors interacting with promoter/enhancer type sequences , with subsequent effects on chromatin domains ( 25 , and references therein ) ; we would expect chromatin structure analysis ( DH sites ) to be of particular use in localising regions of regulatory interest . |