Example sentences of "expect [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 2 | With her enchanting grin , which had , sadly , not been much in evidence of late , she added , ‘ I expect Sheila from down the road had been in with her ‘ Mr Sheen ’ … ’ |
| 3 | We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn , and we expect saintliness from them as well . |
| 4 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect news from Rivera within two days at the outside . |
| 6 | NURSES EXPECT PRESSURE FROM DRUG GIANTS |
| 7 | Nevertheless , he expected assistance from him . |
| 8 | We can therefore hardly expect change from individual departments : they lack an appreciation of the curriculum as a whole and are inherently inclined to defend their own interests . |
| 9 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 10 | SIR ANTHONY Hidden QC has omitted one place to lay the blame for the Clapham disaster — the law lords who decided in the ‘ Fares Fair ’ case that an ‘ economic ’ transport system was one that made a profit or broke even on fares charged , rather than one that could expect support from ratepayers or taxpayers . |
| 11 | But he believed that pacifism could expect support from all the major vested interests in a modern capitalist society . |
| 12 | If we house them we need to look after all the people , we make no apologies for the fact that this is a budget slanted towards equal opportunities and to an anti-poverty strategy and that is something that we will fight to preserve and we would expect support from at least some quarters in order to achieve an egalitarian status in this city . |
| 13 | The Purchaser will normally expect warranties from all Vendors — whether or not they worked or will work in the business . |
| 14 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |
| 15 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 16 | None of us can expect assistance from a Vala ; nevertheless in any kind of Mordor it is one 's duty to go on . |
| 17 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 18 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 19 | The NCC said that at best one in seven problem debtors can expect help from money advice centres . |
| 20 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 21 | We do expect organisations from the projects in the programme to attend . |
| 22 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 23 | I do n't want to come here too often , but I 'll expect messages from you in the usual way . |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'd got engaged to anybody else , any of these young girls you cite , they 'd expect things from me I 'm not prepared to give — ’ |
| 25 | How can we expect people from developing nations to make sacrifices for the good of mankind , while we continue to squander and pollute ? |
| 26 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 28 | The Christians were beholden to the Syrians for this service — for the moment at least — and thus the Syrians could expect compliance from them . |
| 29 | One might as well expect mercy from a killer shark or warmth from a cube of ice . |
| 30 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |