Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] expect [adj] [noun sg] " 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 this work to be on a contingency basis and would expect the fees to fall in the range of £ [ ] — £ [ ] per hour . |
| 3 | You may also expect more love and support than of late . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly . |
| 5 | ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us . |
| 6 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 7 | It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays . |
| 8 | You ca n't expect one person to satisfy all your needs . ’ |
| 9 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
| 10 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 11 | You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers . |
| 12 | We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances . |
| 13 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 14 | We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved . |
| 15 | Just because John was a journalist we could n't expect special treatment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 19 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |
| 20 | ‘ Then he 'll surely expect some sort of explanation from me , ’ Harry said quietly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But he ca n't expect any help form the Borough Council . |
| 23 | If he condemns people who are outperforming his members , he can hardly expect much respect for their standards . |