Example sentences of "expect from [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We get what we expect from life , according to our desires , thoughts , beliefs , attitudes , choices and decisions .
2 ‘ Meeting her ’ , reported the interviewer to his male ( presumably ) compatriots ‘ shocked me into realizing how little we normally expect from women . ’
3 Our development of complex beer flavour concentrates ensures that wherever Guinness stout is brewed in the world , consumers will enjoy the consistent taste they expect from Guinness .
4 So people have to devise ways of adapting to this gap between what they want and expect from society and the means they have available to obtain these things .
5 The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability .
6 ‘ The service exceeds by a wide margin the standards we expect from UK broadcasters and I see no reason why material of this sort should be available in the UK simply because it is broadcast from overseas . ’
7 The proposals in the consultation document will go a long way towards improving the facilities and the standards that drivers expect from motorway service areas .
8 In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time .
9 Matches at neutral venues , on the other hand , often have charged atmospheres as the contesting clubs bring along five or six thousand supporters and create the sort of scene we expect from cup semi-finals .
10 It also allows all the fading and mixing features you normally expect from broadcast television .
11 Not everyone reacts to the death of someone close by bursting into tears and behaving in the kind of way that we expect from people experiencing grief .
12 General practitioner fundholders already use contracts to spell out what they expect from hospital services .
13 It is what they expect from Robyn Penrose , and even the rugby-playing boys in the back row would be mildly disappointed if she did n't produce this kind of observation from time to time .
14 The base was run in the manner expected from Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , with no concessions to careless habits or moments of inattention which could cost lives on a beach .
15 For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure .
16 For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle .
17 Through remarks like these the police were normalizing the behaviour to distinguish it from that which cam be expected from gougers .
18 Evidence from manufacturing also indicates that drinking customs continued to be linked to beer consumption , quite often expected from employers as a perquisite .
19 Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation .
20 When he was notified that 200 unemployed marchers were expected from Ampthill , however , he arranged for them to occupy the Drill Hall in George Street for sleeping and feeding .
21 This would be expected from differences in the density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust .
22 The last thing I had expected from Karen was an imaginative feel for language , but this was almost poetic : the soap foam as fur on the skin of the water .
23 There 's nothing manly to be expected from Silvio , unless that English witch knows something the rest of us do n't .
24 Afterwards , Nicholas wondered what he had expected from Zacco .
25 Upon prolonged exposure , two faint bands expected from D β1- J β1.1 or D β1- J β1.2 rearrangements of the mutant allele were occasionally observed .
26 This provides an outline of the purpose of each module and what is expected from students .
27 long delays expected from May thirteenth for three weeks due to major resurfacing
28 And it was the last sort of confession I 'd ever have expected from Oliver .
29 In addition to relief forms , which he described as in no way different from those which might have been expected from water action , there are great waste fans at the foot of the Andes in the desert .
30 He finished his lunch , went back to his office , gave a bemused Müller a stern warning about the standards expected from state officials , buckled into a solid afternoon 's work and , when the working day was over , carried a bulging briefcase home .
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