Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] expect [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , I 've come to the conclusion that he , I mean , his work is , it was absolutely superb , but I must n't expect that . |
| 2 | " I would n't expect many dirty coats , not on a Thursday . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't expect any dramatic response initially , ’ she says . |
| 4 | I would n't expect this to happen in a capitalist country so why expect anything different from the USSR ? |
| 5 | ‘ Traditionally games against Meath are always close , and I would n't expect this one to be any different . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would not expect that . |
| 7 | I would not expect these decisions to be uniform across the country because of different local circumstances and the likelihood of different clinical views on the efficacy of particular treatment . |
| 8 | I would not expect this work to be on a contingency basis and would expect the fees to fall in the range of £ [ ] — £ [ ] per hour . |
| 9 | I ca n't expect any favours from Graham Gooch in that direction . |
| 10 | Naturally you should not expect this to be a full consultation , but it should give you time to see how you relate to the particular therapist concerned and how much confidence you feel in him . |
| 11 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
| 12 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 13 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 14 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 15 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 16 | But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else . |
| 17 | It must be emphasised that you can not expect any financial support from the University . |
| 18 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 19 | But one should not expect such economic movements to determine the details of changing musical practice in any mechanical way . |
| 20 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 21 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 22 | The numbers and types of printers have increased rapidly in the last three years , but we would not expect any rapid increase in numbers in the next three years . |
| 23 | But he said : ‘ We would not expect this to be the case when the ambulance station is within a few hundred yards of the person who made the call . ’ |
| 24 | But we can not expect any Psalm reflecting the years of oppression and revolt to be exactly comparable with the situation described from a later point of view in the Books of Maccabees ; and if we can not use the Books of Maccabees in this way any certain terms of comparison are lacking altogether . |
| 25 | This new world will also be one in which we can not expect any new carrier to be able to enter the airline market to any competitive extent owing to lack of the large resources required . |
| 26 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
| 27 | I would have hoped that the Minister might have spelt out more clearly the fact that he would not expect any more private works Bills to be introduced . |
| 28 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |