Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] expect [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Love Virgos involved in a new relationship should not expect much progress until at least early December . |
2 | The West should not expect outstanding interest to be paid off before 1993 . |
3 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
4 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |
5 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
6 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
7 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |
8 | Complaints about government appointments or policies could only be met by Law with the barren reply that the party could not expect total control and that in coalition such things must happen — which is just what the critics were saying too . |
9 | Just because John was a journalist we could n't expect special treatment . |
10 | His expression made it clear that any man or boy unlucky enough not to find another situation need not expect any sympathy : his place would have been filled . |
11 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
15 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
16 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
17 | You ca n't expect one person to satisfy all your needs . ’ |
18 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
19 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |
20 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The Health Minister , Virginia Bottomley has said in the House of Commons this afternoon that haemophiliacs who contracted the H I V virus through imported blood products , can not expect further compensation . |