Example sentences of "[adv] expect the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
| 2 | The Ukraine , which announced the competition , apparently expects the international community to foot the bill for the construction of the winning project ( at least 30 large companies from the United States , France , Canada , Italy and Germany have submitted entries ) . |
| 3 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
| 4 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 6 | From common sense one would not expect the mere possession of a regular , orderly arrangement of atoms or molecules to be a cause of weakness , and of course it is n't . |
| 7 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 8 | The football stable must be cleansed and further breakages of the law regarding payments will be dealt with in such a severe manner that I now give warning that clubs and players must not expect the slightest leniency … |
| 9 | However , I do not expect the full effect to be felt until next year , when I am sure we can expect a megaseller each month . |
| 10 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 11 | He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war . |
| 12 | They do not expect the medical profession to be disinterested , and are disappointed if it does not provide advice and support . |
| 13 | Memorex reported a $120m net loss for the nine months to December and the New York rating agency says that it does not expect the fourth quarter net outturn to be much better . |
| 14 | Ordinary shareholders can not normally expect the same kind of safe , steady return on their investment as a preference holder might . |
| 15 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 16 | Well , she 'd been warned not to expect the welcome mat , Sabine thought , as she drove under the arch . |
| 17 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
| 18 | ‘ Now you leave Yugoslavia and still expect the Yugoslav Army to protect you . ’ |
| 19 | The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future . |
| 20 | The analysts have now downgraded their inflation forecasts for the rest of this year , but many are still expecting the underlying rate to creep back up to the top of the Chancellor 's target range of 4 per cent and above this summer . |
| 21 | Her attitude was one with which the reader will now be familiar : that women could not reasonably expect the same pay as men : That we know would be impossible , at least in the meantime , as up to now all girl apprentices have only served an apprenticeship of three years , whereas a boy serves seven . |
| 22 | In addition to the acoustic-equivalence problem , we would also expect the island-driving aspect of the density algorithm to exacerbate the search problem . |
| 23 | The board also expects the quarrying side to pick up . |
| 24 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 25 | If Susanna Jennens had encouraged her to read and write at Weston Hall , Leapor could not really expect the same sort of understanding and support from another employer . |
| 26 | He had n't expected the red carpet to be unrolled for him , but he had thought that at last he would be at work , setting up his meetings , on the move . |
| 27 | Rather , we would simply expect the relative demotion of conformity ( in terms of both goals and means ) as against deviance , because it offers less . |
| 28 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
| 29 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 30 | But do n't expect the unassuming islander to back you up on that view . |