Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the same , I would n't expect a young girl like you to feel that . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't expect a sympathetic hearing from you , anyway . ’ |
| 3 | The turbo is not just a bolt-on ‘ goodie ’ for a normally aspirated engine The turbo engine has uprated valve gear , bearings , fuel pump and manifolding as well as improved cooling and lubrication systems I would not expect the normal 2 5 engine fitted with an after market turbo to have the same longevity as the factory built turbo diesel engine |
| 4 | I believe there are enough pictures to represent this School adequately in three collections , as I would naturally expect the best of post-World War I British pictures to be present in the new Modern Art Museum . |
| 5 | In the circumstances , I ca n't expect a warm welcome , Sabine thought wryly , as Ernestine silently accepted her light wrap , then conducted her to the salon where Gaston de Rochefort was waiting . |
| 6 | The second is that you must not expect a large metropolis . |
| 7 | Equally , you ca n't expect a workable accessibility . |
| 8 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 9 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 10 | ‘ After six years of marriage , Clare , you ca n't expect the same relationship as on your wedding day . ’ |
| 11 | You would not expect a self-respecting La Paz office worker to walk down a main street fondling a doll 's house three-piece-suite or a Dinky-sized Toyota jeep . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you would n't expect an industrial manager to be made Attorney General , would you ? ’ |
| 15 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 16 | Next came an accusation , which Niki reports as follows , with Dennis saying , ‘ If you pay somebody such an amazing amount of money , you can surely expect a little friendship in exchange . ’ |
| 17 | Now I can not say whether you will have a secondary school , and the reason I can not say that er is because the education authority will , quite properly , and quite reasonably , look at the existing pattern of secondary education er in the area , and will bear in mind that secondary school children , not unreasonably , as they do now , can be expected , erm to travel , er some distance , er to a school facility , that is the real world , you can not expect a local education authority to spend vast amounts of money erm on er a high range of facilities , which are not justified by the size , er , of the community , and all these social , recreation , er an an and education facilities appropriate to the size erm of the community , need to be expressed in a pattern of land use which is well integrated , and well designed , in other words , it 's a good design concept er , and how do you do that ? |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |
| 20 | Hence , we may reasonably expect a resultative flavour when an adverbal adjective is combined with a change-of-state verb . |
| 21 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 22 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 23 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 24 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 25 | We might therefore expect a commemorative poem in his honour to contain melancholy , death , and a churchyard , but the whole mood of Wordsworth 's poem is different from , say , Gray 's Elegy , a stanza of which was inscribed on Taylor 's tomb . |
| 26 | In addition to the acoustic-equivalence problem , we would also expect the island-driving aspect of the density algorithm to exacerbate the search problem . |
| 27 | Rather , we would simply expect the relative demotion of conformity ( in terms of both goals and means ) as against deviance , because it offers less . |
| 28 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 29 | From common sense one would not expect the mere possession of a regular , orderly arrangement of atoms or molecules to be a cause of weakness , and of course it is n't . |
| 30 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |