Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 2 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 3 | He did not expect domestic coal supplies to be insulated from world price trends — especially as government grants to the National Coal Board will have to rise over the next few years . |
| 4 | When Qaddafi abolished the state he did not expect Libyan society to collapse into fragments . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We do not expect any component buying problem to be encountered by constructors of the Vehicle Watchdog . |
| 7 | No , and it says erm I really did not expect any Grace to answer . |
| 8 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 9 | Evans & Sutherland is also expected this week to announce similar OGI-compliant graphics software aimed at the high-end graphics market . |
| 10 | It is not sufficient that someone had an opportunity to examine the goods , it must be shown that the manufacturer could reasonably expect that person to make an examination . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You ca n't expect one person to satisfy all your needs . ’ |
| 14 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 15 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
| 16 | Do n't expect this router to produce complex edge patterns using one large cutter : more decorative edges can be formed if the user is patient and makes several simpler profiles which can be fixed together . |
| 17 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 18 | I half expected some floosie to open it but no , it was Charles . |
| 19 | Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down . |
| 20 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |