Example sentences of "expect much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are so many carp anglers , all fishing with high nutritive value ( HNV ) boiled baits , attached to hair- and bolt-rigs , usually at long range , you can not afford to persist with the old baits and rigs and expect much success . |
| 2 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
| 3 | But I do n't expect much change out of £6,000 . ’ |
| 4 | Love Virgos involved in a new relationship should not expect much progress until at least early December . |
| 5 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 6 | If he condemns people who are outperforming his members , he can hardly expect much respect for their standards . |
| 7 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 8 | Not expecting much action , I had n't bothered to put on boots , let alone waders . |