Example sentences of "expect [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 2 | Further , we can expect interactions between pure deictic M-tense concepts and cultural divisions and measures of time to show up in L-tenses . |
| 3 | But how far can we expect institutions to fulfil the needs of historians in this area ? |
| 4 | There are plenty of famous faces in Debbie Frank 's new book , but do n't expect secrets . |
| 5 | But as the subject develops we can expect researchers to be more explicit about exactly how they expect a pragmatic theory to be formulated . |
| 6 | Do n't expect meetings , discussions or journeys to go smoothly between the 12th and 16th . |
| 7 | But they will expect rewards for their loyalty later , which augurs badly for forthcoming debates on both the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , which many liberals oppose , and on welfare reform . |
| 8 | Further , can we expect states to agree to accept such a system , particularly with compulsory reference to international courts and mandatory application of their decisions , even if there are not sanctions attached to non-adherence ? |
| 9 | And can we expect states to allow non-coercive jural agencies to gather information in an effective manner when this involves the divulgence of state secrets , even if this is seen as the only way to secure confidence in , for instance , disarmament treaties ? |
| 10 | The Purchaser will normally expect warranties from all Vendors — whether or not they worked or will work in the business . |
| 11 | And one does n't expect thanks , of course , but when they use the handout — and then turn round and start blaspheming , you really do want to chuck the whole business up , and go and become a monk , or something . ’ |
| 12 | It was a rough grey face , full of rifts and clefts and fissures , out of which , someone said , you might expect lichens to grow . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether two expressions do or do not mean the same is a matter of some importance , but , again , it is evidently not something we should expect informants to tell us directly . |
| 15 | This view is hedged about with reservations — and indeed few parents who know both their children 's capacities and their teachers ' helpfulness will expect schools to be measured entirely in this way . |
| 16 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |
| 17 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 18 | If this is a correct description of what is happening , we would expect speakers ' language behaviour to be characterised by : |
| 19 | So we should expect readers of different papers to be influenced in different directions depending upon the content of their own particular papers . |
| 20 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 21 | We must expect contractors to take care of all operations ON A project including : — |
| 22 | Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers . |
| 23 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 24 | You can expect ructions at home if you have been taking a partner for granted recently . |
| 25 | As has already been said , if mining or industrial activity is involved rather than agriculture , we can expect settlements nearby to minimise the access time and cost of transporting materials . |
| 26 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 27 | Certainly one would expect judges to exhaust every resource available to them to avoid committing to prison ( in this instance for six years ) a person who has not had an answer to arguable grounds of appeal . |
| 28 | Suppose we wish to put a straight line unc through the following set of experimental points : unc Suppose further that , in view of the experimental method , we may expect errors in f to be proportional to t . |
| 29 | As the Government , with their policies of dividing society , have been responsible for the breakdown in law and order , can not we at least expect bobbies back on the beat to protect us ? |
| 30 | Landlords of private accommodation may expect rents paid throughout the vacations even if you 're not resident . |