Example sentences of "[adv] expect [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 2 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
| 3 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 4 | The book is set in the 1940s and this is how things were then , so to expect a different kind of portrayal would be unreasonable . |
| 5 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 6 | It does not expect a frail humanity to be capable of loving our neighbours more than ourselves : that would be a task of saintly dimension . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success . |
| 9 | But on March 20th , a week before the hearing was due , he withdrew his request , saying that he could not expect a fair hearing from the governor and had no wish to take part in an ‘ empty game ’ . |
| 10 | Immigrants will be required , as before , to send their children to French schools , and officials do not expect a significant increase in exceptions being allowed . |
| 11 | Given their portrayal by trade unionists as rich members of the bourgeouisie who were concerned only over the value of their property , they did not expect a sympathetic reception from workers . |
| 12 | Patients must not expect an endless supply of alternative drugs . |
| 13 | Iraq , which is thought to have capacity to produce at least twice as much oil as Kuwait , did not send its oil minister to the OPEC talks — an indication that the authorities in Baghdad do not expect an early resumption of export trading . |
| 14 | Furthermore , the above is transcribed into fine-class phonemes and , as we saw in the previous section , we can not expect the front end to be so accurate , and indeed we may not want it to try . |
| 15 | He was certainly not one of the ‘ tame ’ scholars and did not expect the young people to be so . |
| 16 | Managers did not expect the two pieces of equipment would compete with each other . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 19 | However , I do not expect the full effect to be felt until next year , when I am sure we can expect a megaseller each month . |
| 20 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 21 | He did not expect the French empire to be reconstituted at the end of the war . |
| 22 | They do not expect the medical profession to be disinterested , and are disappointed if it does not provide advice and support . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ordinary shareholders can not normally expect the same kind of safe , steady return on their investment as a preference holder might . |
| 25 | However often he and his ministers warned the population not to expect an overnight return to prewar prosperity , the head of the government was naturally held accountable for the persistence of food and fuel shortages , black marketeering , and bread rationing . |
| 26 | Your ruler , Mercury , turns retrograde on the 11th which means that from this point you must be prepared to sit certain situations out and not to expect an immediate response from people . |
| 27 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |
| 28 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 29 | This will go some way to draw the fire of the Government 's critics , but he can still expect a rough ride for the bill on the House of Lords . |
| 30 | The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future . |