Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] 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 | You may also expect more love and support than of late . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
| 13 | Mrs Mitchell added : ‘ When you move into a new house you could reasonably expect all the locks to work . |
| 14 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 15 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 16 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But you can not expect another to carry out a task if he or she is constantly being observed by someone else . |
| 19 | It must be emphasised that you can not expect any financial support from the University . |
| 20 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 21 | But one should not expect such economic movements to determine the details of changing musical practice in any mechanical way . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 24 | We might also expect that , unlike university students , the polytechnic students are given an increased awareness of the social nature of science , as the CNAA has made a ‘ science and society ’ type module compulsory on science courses . |
| 25 | We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved . |
| 26 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |