Example sentences of "[modal v] not expect [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love Virgos involved in a new relationship should not expect much progress until at least early December . |
| 2 | The West should not expect outstanding interest to be paid off before 1993 . |
| 3 | He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him . |
| 4 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |