Example sentences of "expect [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive . |
| 3 | You ca n't expect ordinary people in this situation to live like hermits , and it would be unreasonable to expect Charles and Diana to live like hermits . |
| 4 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 5 | This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k . |
| 6 | Time was when such books could expect reasonable sales . |
| 7 | Labour will expect all staff in the civil service , and publicly-owned industries to carry out each policy irrespective of their point of view . ’ |
| 8 | Although a company can not expect all staff offered transfers to other parts of the country to accept them , it can take steps to improve employees ' attitudes towards relocation . |
| 9 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 10 | Hungarian-born Mr Soros , 62 , told a London news conference : ‘ I do n't expect other people to make donations of this size . |
| 11 | We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness . |
| 12 | No , we did n't sack anybody who worked in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 13 | of our officers who work in children 's homes , we did n't sack anybody who was at the front line of s services and we certainly did n't expect other people to pay for our circus tickets . |
| 14 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 15 | I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures . |