Example sentences of "[adv] expect a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do not expect a cast-iron guarantee of success . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |
| 13 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sunderland also expect a big crowd for Friday night 's £5,000 marathon challenge match . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Mr Litman refused to discuss details of the money involved but his Russian associates are clearly expecting a considerable boost to their meagre pensions . |
| 18 | Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles . |
| 19 | This increase seems to be part of a broader social trend in which clients increasingly expect a high quality of service from professional people . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ All the same , I would n't expect a young girl like you to feel that . |
| 22 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't expect a sympathetic hearing from you , anyway . ’ |
| 24 | Many players are guilty of having a lesson and almost expecting a magical remedy to their problems . |
| 25 | We certainly expect a big uplift in sales through the group as a result . ’ |
| 26 | Even if the company had too much money for its own good and wanted to go way over the top it should certainly expect a finished block of 60,000 square feet for £9.4m . |
| 27 | The Keynesians would therefore expect a close relationship between the demand for money and the yield ( rate of interest ) on near-money substitutes , but the monetarist would not expect a significant relationship because of the belief that money is a substitute for all assets alike . |
| 28 | 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 . |