Example sentences of "not expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In India , ’ concludes the Mirza Nama , a gentleman ‘ should not expect intelligence and good behaviour from those who put big turbans on their heads . ’ |
| 2 | I tell you this because I know that I can not expect trust if I do not give it . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 4 | After Auschwitz , would you not expect Germans to take every conceivable care to stop German arms filtering through to where they could threaten Israel ? |
| 5 | And if a man permits his personal belief to distort , alter or transform historical fact , he can not expect others , whether or not they share his belief , to condone the process . |
| 6 | The committee do not expect members participating to be put to any expense or undue trouble , the proposal is merely to be an ‘ old boy ’ friend in a strange town or country . |
| 7 | He did not expect forgiveness . |
| 8 | Shieldaig did not expect visitors and there was no welcome for strangers . |
| 9 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 10 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 11 | He will not expect miracles , only a reasonable standard of proficiency . |
| 12 | In his inaugural address Konare warned that the country should not expect miracles ; although he wished to bring hope to the country , he said , he was not a " pedlar of illusion " . |
| 13 | He does not expect miracles from Lennie and is not at all surprised when Lennie forgets things , even though he gets angry at him . |
| 14 | We do not expect prices to rise generally for a further two years . |
| 15 | ‘ We did not expect Faith to have any money at all . |
| 16 | I do not expect King Arthur to rise fully accoutred from the cave in which he lies asleep , any more than I expect my father to clamber out of his shallow pit of prison lime . |
| 17 | Recalled from America in 1806 by the Grenville–Fox government , Merry , a Pittite , did not expect reassignment . |
| 18 | He did not expect Osman openly to agree but he thought it quite likely that the Sheikh might indicate his willingness to accept Owen 's proposition . |
| 19 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 20 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 21 | Do not expect equipment to withstand abuse , if it did it would be unaffordable . |
| 22 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 23 | We do not expect doctors to run an intensive care unit simply by measuring the pulse rates of their patients . |
| 24 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 25 | With a Basis Loan our proportion of the equity is normally 10–20% — and Barclays will not expect board representation . |
| 26 | She did not expect letters but on hearing from her the news of Hal 's birth , they had at once despatched an enormous bearskin : a gift for the child . |
| 27 | The Zande do not expect things to work unless they are properly made . |
| 28 | The government , which did not expect Sweden to gain admission to the EC before 1994 , had previously expressed interest in framing a joint application with Norway and Finland . |
| 29 | Hence we can not expect markets and prices to ensure that the marginal benefits of making a noise are equated to the marginal cost of that noise to other people . |
| 30 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |