Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 2 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you 'd hardly expect Jim Lancaster to ring me up and confess , would you ? ’ |
| 5 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 6 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But you can never expect Horowitz to toe the party line which is why , in the end , he succeeded in making so many first-rate recordings . |
| 10 | You can hardly expect lightning to strike twice in the same family . ’ |
| 11 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 12 | You can hardly expect commitment and company loyalty from an employee who 's been press-ganged into working for you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Of course this can never be true if the occupation has been entered upon for what one can get out of it — one must never expect virtue to bring a reward . |
| 15 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 16 | We might therefore expect B's utterance to be interpreted as a non-co-operative response , a brushing aside of A's concerns with a change of topic . |
| 17 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 18 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 19 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 20 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |
| 21 | We can hardly expect adolescents to have respect for the possessions of others if they have no hope of attaining any of their own . |
| 22 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |
| 23 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 24 | One can hardly expect newspapers not to change over four decades ! |
| 25 | He could also expect record damages after being jailed for almost 10 months . |