Example sentences of "expect [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For various reasons , we expected little of the sitting hen . |
| 2 | He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . |
| 3 | Lisa had not expected that of him . |
| 4 | But then Ronni had never expected that of Arnie . |
| 5 | Many people expect this of The Smiths . |
| 6 | I expect some of us will be moving off soon , going to the places where summer work 's to be found . |
| 7 | Managers need to feel , for example , that for teachers , maybe not directly involved but who , perhaps in primary schools , know that parents are aware of TVEI and expect some of their children to benefit from it , nonetheless know about any significant lack of governmental co-ordination . |
| 8 | I expect some of those boys in the village have probably been shooting vermin . |
| 9 | Although the company has a plant in London , it is expected some of the work will go to the company 's French factories . |
| 10 | It is expected some of the Manual will be suitable to be offered to the Contracts and Purchasing Working Group charged with producing their own procedures document for BS5750 . |
| 11 | And we expect hundreds of people queueing today in person . ’ |
| 12 | Japan 's real GDP shrank 0.1% in the fourth quarter of last year and few expect much of a recovery before the end of this year . |
| 13 | I am sorry to say that I often broke the tenth commandment for I really coveted that model and expect many of my contemporaries were also guilty of that sin . |
| 14 | We should also remember that we expect many of the elderly to function under circumstances of stress which would strain people of any age : bereavement , repeated as contemporaries gradually die , worry about money , fear of increasing infirmity , isolation and death . |
| 15 | All of the grooms , except one who was asleep on some hay bales , had chosen not to sit in the car with their charges , and I imagined it was because of Leslie Brown 's daunting presence : racing lads on the whole felt a companionable devotion to their horses , and I would have expected more of them to be sitting on the hay bales during the day . |
| 16 | Her solar had also been much improved , as if her commissioner had expected more of her than her designers . |
| 17 | Jacqueline Sanchez , of the Ministry of Education , also points out that ; ‘ Over the years , since the revolution , many people have become much more demanding as far as education is concerned , and despite all the difficulties , are more critical and expect more of their schools . ’ |
| 18 | I expect one of the old ladies was up there and dropped a fag end or something , and just forgot it . |
| 19 | We have invited six major consultancies to submit proposals and expect one of these to be selected , and work to begin , in January . |
| 20 | , I expect one of those will be alright , were they stripy ones we saw the other day ? |
| 21 | Though I was , having expected one of the great historic documents of planning , bitterly disappointed with the Plan when I first studied it , I now think that in the circumstances Abercrombie did as well as any man , of the type who can survive in planning practice , could have done . |
| 22 | As might be expected most of the Palaeozoic gastropods belong to primitive groups : a few of these primitive snails survive today as inconspicuous members of the Recent fauna . |
| 23 | From the moment I could understand the human voice 1 — and I expect most of my generation — was told to be ‘ seen and not heard ’ … ‘ consider others before yourself ’ … ‘ never complain' and if you were a boy child , then you were exhorted to be a man , to show no emotion , and not to be a sissy . |
| 24 | I expect most of my wheat will be destroyed in this rain . ’ |
| 25 | First of all , I expect most of you have heard that the proposed holiday to Torbay has had to be cancelled cos we did n't have enough support . |
| 26 | I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones . |
| 27 | Most auction companies appear to be waiting until the transfer legislation is in place before they too offer sheep quota — and they expect most of 1993 trading to concentrate on leasing . |
| 28 | ‘ We expect thousands of people will turn up for this rave , which has been organised and advertised without the school 's knowledge . |
| 29 | You can expect each of these products to have all the basic functions , so they 're pretty similar in those terms . |
| 30 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |