Example sentences of "[adv] expect [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these two ideas alone , Friedmann showed that we should not expect the universe to be static . |
| 2 | Above all , we should not expect the ideology to be straightforward , for it is an ideology , which includes the word ‘ prejudice ’ and the associated value attached to the word . |
| 3 | I do not expect the Minister to be helpful — |
| 4 | Therefore , we should not expect the centre to be omniscient . |
| 5 | Ferguson said : ‘ It will be a very tight game and I do not expect the Russians to be too adventurous . |
| 6 | He told Mr Justice Michael Davies and the jury he did not expect the Cossacks to be massacred without trial — the fate of many thousands . |
| 7 | Once again , we would not expect the perception to be a problem . |
| 8 | I did not expect the greeting to be quite so enthusiastic . |
| 9 | They are not dissatisfied with the job content because they did not expect the job to be intrinsically rewarding . |
| 10 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 11 | Additional targets set by Minister for Social Security Peter Lilley include : the identification of at least 40,000 extra self-employed people who should be registered ; a £12m increase in returns from identified Class 1 NI underpayments ; a £13.3m increase in payments of arrears ; and efficiency savings of £2.6m. 95% of customers can also expect a response to their enquiries within 10 working days . |
| 12 | One would n't expect a clergyman to be interested in young girls of eighteen . ’ |
| 13 | Although I did n't expect the floods to be as high as they were my friend , Matthew , and I had planned to go out in this American style canoe . |
| 14 | They do n't expect the train to be back on the tracks until the turn of the century . |
| 15 | ‘ I genuinely did n't expect the team to be at the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 16 | The company troubled by problems of getting the database off the mainframe and running on local area networks and Unix , did n't expect the modifications to be so extensive . |
| 17 | ‘ Then , as we 're not , you wo n't expect an answer to your question , will you ? ’ she responded brightly . |
| 18 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |