Example sentences of "expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was referring to ‘ prime ’ and ‘ premium ’ sausages in which you might expect leaner meat , less filler material , or less fat . |
| 2 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 3 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |
| 4 | Because three-quarters of women with gonorrhoea will have the infection in the urethra , one might expect urethral discharge to be a common finding in infected women . |
| 5 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 6 | If he is n't just amusing himself , then I can expect total siege . |
| 7 | Where hedges become very interesting , and suggest a huge meadow of fresh research , is when they appear in contexts where a priori we would expect total precision , such as in scientific lectures . |
| 8 | The marrow regenerates itself rapidly while the patient spends the next three months in a plastic bubble ; 30 per cent can expect total remission . |
| 9 | Complaints about government appointments or policies could only be met by Law with the barren reply that the party could not expect total control and that in coalition such things must happen — which is just what the critics were saying too . |
| 10 | He can expect solid support from about a third of the 1,000 delegates , with a third belonging to the camp of malcontent communists and nationalists , and about a third undecided . |
| 11 | The West should not expect outstanding interest to be paid off before 1993 . |
| 12 | Do n't expect chatty presenters on a comfy settee just yet . |
| 13 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 14 | It is not sufficient that someone had an opportunity to examine the goods , it must be shown that the manufacturer could reasonably expect that person to make an examination . |
| 15 | it is , is the policy i i is , is would you need to set this up as , as it being a long term I E ho how quickly would you expect that kind of process to work through ? |
| 16 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 17 | Although it is not a matter for me , I would hope and expect that Parliament would be similarly sensitive to the need to refrain from trespassing upon the province of the courts . |
| 18 | Erm I , I just get this feeling , you know one would expect that year eleven is a reasonable way of working out what the , the sort of workload is , and you would think that special needs would actually be something that really related quite nicely |
| 19 | We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved . |
| 20 | Now that 's fair enough because we 've actually bunged more in in terms of testing , we 're covered in testing , and we 've got temps who are less productive , so to an extent we , we , we , we ou our budget did expect that bump . |
| 21 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 22 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 23 | Our farm has shown growth right from grandfather 's day in 1921 and I would expect that growth would continue . |
| 24 | How dare she expect up-to-the-minute information when she had decided to remove herself from the scene ? |
| 25 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
| 26 | He has warned the council that unless it rectifies this situation it should expect strong opposition against the bill . |
| 27 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 28 | Those caught in the ‘ genteel poverty trap ’ can expect little sympathy from people earning the national wage of £15,790 or less . |
| 29 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 30 | Not only will the proposed reorganisation plunge local government into confusion and uncertainty for a number of years , during which we can expect little progress with the review and upgrading of old minerals permissions , but the resulting structure of small unitary authorities is very unlikely to deliver either the resources or the strategic perspective required to implement the proposed review . |