Example sentences of "[pron] expect of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three more informants identified the clash of registers in " the sort of description you expect of old Salzburg and the simile " " like a half-eaten lunch " " " , which , again , they were unable as yet to resolve . |
| 2 | The growth of the industrial proletariat convinced him that state education for all was essential , though in 1809 he asked : ‘ What can you expect of national education conducted by a government which for twenty years resisted the abolition of the Slave Trade ? ’ |
| 3 | It is interesting that although idioms consist of more than one word , they display to some extent the sort of internal cohesion that we expect of single words . |
| 4 | Not the sort of thing one expects of this generation , so all the more pleasing when one comes across it . |
| 5 | Our experience of particular communicative situations teaches us what to expect of that situation , both in a general predictive sense ( e.g. the sort of attitudes which are likely to be expressed , the sort of topics which are likely to be raised ) which gives rise to notions of ‘ appropriacy ’ , and in a limited predictive sense which enables us to interpret linguistic tokens ( e.g. deictic forms like here and now ) in the way we have interpreted them before in similar contexts . |
| 6 | They give details of what to expect of various opportunities open to you , and how to obtain further information on professional qualifications , future prospects , etc . |