Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] expect no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may expect no mass media to crusade , no millions of strangers to become suddenly familiar with my name and anxious for my cause . |
| 2 | To the watching girl it became increasingly obvious that she could expect no more help . |
| 3 | On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour . |
| 4 | But Voyager is more than just a pretty face ; one would expect no less from Volker Schlondorff . |
| 5 | Seek not after new light for the searching into the private records of God … the event is registered in heaven , and we can expect no other certain notice of it , but that it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared by the Father of mercies . ’ |
| 6 | We can expect no more than that , and we can certainly ask for no less . |
| 7 | Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine . |