Example sentences of "[indef pn] expects a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party loyalty is by no means an irrelevant factor in explaining and predicting the behaviour of congressmen , but on any issue that they perceive to be contentious within their districts nobody expects a member of Congress to put party before district . |
| 2 | But in Japan only one senior figure is to stand trial ; nobody expects a referendum . |
| 3 | Nobody expects a paragon of virtue but the nurse is meant to be realistic , is meant to have self-knowledge because the ‘ self ’ must be used in the relationship . |
| 4 | One expects a child who mastered four notes in his first week to master four more in the second ; a child who has achieved doggy-paddle with both feet off the bottom to progress logically to breaststroke . |
| 5 | No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies . |