Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 2 | I would not expect these decisions to be uniform across the country because of different local circumstances and the likelihood of different clinical views on the efficacy of particular treatment . |
| 3 | I would not expect this work to be on a contingency basis and would expect the fees to fall in the range of £ [ ] — £ [ ] per hour . |
| 4 | I readily acknowledge that I can not expect definitive statements from the Minister when the answers given by his ministerial colleagues , who have greater legal experience than the Minister and I possess , are , to say the least , somewhat circumspect . |
| 5 | If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever . |
| 6 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |
| 7 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 8 | We should not expect three classes of behaviour corresponding to the three processes of adaptation . |
| 9 | However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched . |
| 10 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 11 | The representation is , of course , implicit and we would not expect any child to be able to state explicitly the phrase structure rules and transformations generating the sentences of his language . |
| 12 | But we can not expect any Psalm reflecting the years of oppression and revolt to be exactly comparable with the situation described from a later point of view in the Books of Maccabees ; and if we can not use the Books of Maccabees in this way any certain terms of comparison are lacking altogether . |
| 13 | In retirement we must achieve a state of calm , for we can not expect large segments of our lives to be filled with ecstasy . |
| 14 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 15 | The idea that the colonies might be told to go their own way was not considered ; an administrative system was set up to make sure that the King 's orders were obeyed on the far side of the Atlantic as much as in the more distant parts of the British Isles — it was realized that he could not expect complete obedience , and in some respects the system was losing its impetus even by the beginning of the eighteenth century , but the shift from the Greek pattern of virtual independence to the Roman pattern of general obedience in the colonies had been made and there was no reason to think it would be reversed . |