Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] expect [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is that you must not expect a large metropolis . |
| 2 | The football stable must be cleansed and further breakages of the law regarding payments will be dealt with in such a severe manner that I now give warning that clubs and players must not expect the slightest leniency … |
| 3 | Patients must not expect an endless supply of alternative drugs . |
| 4 | Moreover , one should not expect the liberal ideology of today , as revealed in ordinary discourse , to reflect the universalistic aspirations of the Enlightenment . |
| 5 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 6 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 7 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Hence , we may reasonably expect a resultative flavour when an adverbal adjective is combined with a change-of-state verb . |
| 12 | You would not expect a self-respecting La Paz office worker to walk down a main street fondling a doll 's house three-piece-suite or a Dinky-sized Toyota jeep . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | While the possibility of a court injunction did not in itself upset the takeover schedule , the panel would still expect a formal takeover document . |
| 17 | In addition to the acoustic-equivalence problem , we would also expect the island-driving aspect of the density algorithm to exacerbate the search problem . |
| 18 | ‘ All the same , I would n't expect a young girl like you to feel that . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't expect a sympathetic hearing from you , anyway . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Well , you would n't expect an industrial manager to be made Attorney General , would you ? ’ |
| 21 | Different types of shops are laid out in different ways — you would n't expect an expensive dress shop to be laid out in the same way as a supermarket , for example . |
| 22 | Rather , we would simply expect the relative demotion of conformity ( in terms of both goals and means ) as against deviance , because it offers less . |
| 23 | In the circumstances , I ca n't expect a warm welcome , Sabine thought wryly , as Ernestine silently accepted her light wrap , then conducted her to the salon where Gaston de Rochefort was waiting . |
| 24 | Equally , you ca n't expect a workable accessibility . |
| 25 | ‘ After six years of marriage , Clare , you ca n't expect the same relationship as on your wedding day . ’ |
| 26 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 27 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average . |
| 30 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |