Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 2 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 3 | Their commitment to each other was made , after all , and she could n't expect Rohan to jettison every other aspect of his life in her favour . |
| 4 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 5 | When you 've had an industrialist as a father and you know how a business works , you ca n't expect farmers to ignore every business principle to be Green . |
| 6 | You ca n't expect people to tell you this , tell you that . |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't expect people to come out of prison and go dashing to the social security — not on the day of their release . ’ |
| 8 | You ca n't expect Merrill to alter her arrangements at a moment 's notice . |
| 9 | But you can never expect Horowitz to toe the party line which is why , in the end , he succeeded in making so many first-rate recordings . |
| 10 | You can hardly expect lightning to strike twice in the same family . ’ |
| 11 | You can hardly expect people to make a journey of six hours round trip for an afternoon 's event unless it is very special . |
| 12 | The imagination must be fed ; we should not expect children to go on drawing from imagination or memory without directing his attention to the things he does and sees , and tries to imagine . |
| 13 | Of course this can never be true if the occupation has been entered upon for what one can get out of it — one must never expect virtue to bring a reward . |
| 14 | As the anticipated " crisis " fades from memory , we might also expect managers to show less concern for improving the career prospects and conditions of work of nurses . |
| 15 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 16 | We could hardly expect Jennifer to want to go to that place if he 's going to be there . ’ |
| 17 | We can not expect Britain to influence the direction the Community takes in the next decade unless it is a full and enthusiastic member . |
| 18 | Here the modest claim is made that without the social services , a section of the population will be permanently unemployed because in advanced industrial societies ‘ we can not expect industry to create many extra jobs because of the speed of technical change and job-saving investment . ’ |
| 19 | We have come to appreciate that we can not expect children to live by our adult standards too early , or too quickly , without doing them harm ; but nor should we expect them to socialize themselves . |
| 20 | We can not expect pupils to learn the sophistication necessary for handling difficult concepts if we constantly draw a veil over them and shut pupils off from the real debate . |
| 21 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 22 | We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth . |
| 23 | We can hardly expect adolescents to have respect for the possessions of others if they have no hope of attaining any of their own . |
| 24 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 25 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |