Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I really expected them to ; I could hardly expect the Umpire to side with me so soon . |
| 2 | You must not expect the state alone to cope with them . |
| 3 | After all , you 'd not expect the woman to use the name of one of her real lovers , would you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've seen that dress before , ’ whispers a disappointed woman in front , but you could scarcely expect the Queen to wear a new suit for each of the fourteen investitures each year as well as all her other official functions . |
| 5 | But surely you ca n't expect the government , now that the ambulance dispute in the public sector is in its sixth month to get what you 'd call a substantial , possibly double figured settlement ? |
| 6 | As Diana Gilbert , Ricoh 's product manager for Group 4 fax wryly observes : ‘ You ca n't expect the world to change overnight just because the technology is perfect ’ . |
| 7 | So is n't the only way you could do it would be to issue it secretly to cadres you would then expect the cadres to take this up and promote it but you have n't actually broken the conditions in the United Front . |
| 8 | The key ability is to know to address problems early and to know what you can reasonably expect the banks to do . |
| 9 | But you can not expect the taxpayers to provide extra help for one-parent families unless someone tries to ensure that the money only goes to families which really do have only one parent in them . |
| 10 | You can not expect the world always to come to you — you must go out and meet it sometimes if you are going to have a full social life . |
| 11 | You can also expect the fish to feed along the shore towards which the wind is blowing . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , given that it will not do to define law as a means to institutionalise dispute-resolution and so inhibit unregulated conflict , we may surely expect the control of force to be a major objective of law . |
| 13 | Perhaps we should also expect the officials to provide a vision for the organisation even though less grandiose in scope . |
| 14 | Above all , we should not expect the ideology to be straightforward , for it is an ideology , which includes the word ‘ prejudice ’ and the associated value attached to the word . |
| 15 | From these two ideas alone , Friedmann showed that we should not expect the universe to be static . |
| 16 | Therefore , we should not expect the centre to be omniscient . |
| 17 | In consequence , one should not expect the discourse of racism to be necessarily marked by the ponderous unsubtlety of thought described by Adorno et al . |
| 18 | If we pursue the doctrine of the orogeny/regression couple , then we must also expect the corollary that the wearing down of mountain ranges and the spread of continents by marginal sedimentation must lead to widespread transgressions . |
| 19 | Given the author 's centre-right political stance ( he is a potential Presidential candidate in Peru ) one could hardly expect the portrait be sympathetic . |
| 20 | For instance , if a new service is building up a clientele base then one could naturally expect the efficiency ratio to improve over time . |
| 21 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 22 | Apart from the societal context within which the organisation operates we would also expect the history of the organisation to influence its present culture . |
| 23 | We would probably expect the dispersion in Β to be considerably larger than in N ; on the other hand , this may be offset by its lower degree of serial correlation . |
| 24 | Using this as a starting point , we would not expect the kinds of social pressure defined by anomie-type theories to force change from one finite state to the other . |
| 25 | Once again , we would not expect the perception to be a problem . |
| 26 | In this atmosphere , one would not expect the criticisms and justifications of the monarchy , qua monarchy , to be sharpened into explicitness , for they are not presently needed in debate . |
| 27 | Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’ |
| 28 | This is because it is to the equilibrium rate of national income ( Y e ) that we can reasonably expect the macroeconomy to tend . |
| 29 | Hence in such cases we can not expect the twin goals to be met ; in fact it may be that some compromise position has to be reached . |
| 30 | If some risky activities are uninsurable at any price , again we can not expect the price system to guide society to an allocation at which social marginal costs and benefits are equal . |