Example sentences of "not expect [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | He told police he had not expected the fires to spread so quickly , and blamed hot summer weather . |
| 3 | We had not expected the Prime Minister to look at her watch and say , ‘ I see it 's only eleven , so we have half an hour in hand . |
| 4 | I had not expected the level of exposure , the narrowness of the arêtes , the commitment . |
| 5 | They had not expected the newcomer to speak so soon . |
| 6 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 7 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 8 | You would not expect a well-made machine like this to be light , and at 2.8kg ( 6.2lb ) it is n't , so you need the two handles moulded into the case of the machine to help hold it . |
| 9 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 10 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 11 | But on March 20th , a week before the hearing was due , he withdrew his request , saying that he could not expect a fair hearing from the governor and had no wish to take part in an ‘ empty game ’ . |
| 12 | If you have had a weight problem for a long time , do not expect a miracle in a few weeks . |
| 13 | It is important not to be brutal in this respect : one can not expect a puppy to go all through the night and be clean in the morning — it is physically impossible . |
| 14 | Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success . |
| 15 | The mind does not expect a swallow until after a chew so now I chew a small piece of biscuit and then pop in the Paracetamol and swallow without difficulty . |
| 16 | With goals so limited , one should not expect a revolution in residential environments to emerge from current British research . |
| 17 | It is difficult to differentiate between flight performances of many of the third generation designs , particularly when one can not expect a constant windspeed . |
| 18 | In the Muslim republics , nationalism was espoused first and foremost by fundamentalist religious groups from which the urban population did not expect a market economy and democracy . |
| 19 | Bedi believes India should concentrate on spin and forget hopes of a ‘ mediocre ’ pace attack making any dent in the England batting , saying : ‘ Kapil Dev is an exception , but you can not expect a one-man army to win for you all the time . ’ |
| 20 | They generally do not expect a short-term return . |
| 21 | Given their portrayal by trade unionists as rich members of the bourgeouisie who were concerned only over the value of their property , they did not expect a sympathetic reception from workers . |
| 22 | Officials insisted they did not expect a Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 23 | Do not expect a comfortable time . |
| 24 | Viktor Chernomyrdin , the prime minister and leading Gosplanner , said before the referendum that he did not expect a majority to support Mr Yeltsin 's economic policies . |
| 25 | Immigrants will be required , as before , to send their children to French schools , and officials do not expect a significant increase in exceptions being allowed . |
| 26 | The Keynesians would therefore expect a close relationship between the demand for money and the yield ( rate of interest ) on near-money substitutes , but the monetarist would not expect a significant relationship because of the belief that money is a substitute for all assets alike . |
| 27 | After all , you simply do not expect a newly-arrived wild fish , especially one being subjected to a ‘ blue period ’ , to be so tame . |
| 28 | Burun did not expect a serious answer . |
| 29 | The second is that you must not expect a large metropolis . |
| 30 | But if expectations are rationally formed , the government can not expect a policy of linking the change in the money supply to the previous price level to succeed , for people will not be fooled by it . |