Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [adj] expect [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discouraged , Jinny bent to her picking , telling herself that she was stupid to expect faces at the window or dramatic voices calling . |
| 2 | However , I agree that it 's unreasonable to expect people to pay good money for a forecast that is no longer relevant and we shall look at ways of eliminating this problem . |
| 3 | He is , however , prepared to recognize that it is unreasonable to expect McDonald 's to make one p.p.m . |
| 4 | Democrats , whilst welcoming Bush 's retreat on the tax issue , argued that it was unreasonable to expect Democrats to associate themselves with spending cuts and tax increases , if they could not be certain that the President could hold his own party to such a deal . |
| 5 | But it was crazy to expect oddness from the day to match her own . |
| 6 | I did n't know whether it was fair to expect Toby to come and visit me . |
| 7 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |