Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] expect [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was less severe with me than he would have been normally , but I saw I could not expect great leniency from him .
2 I would not expect these decisions to be uniform across the country because of different local circumstances and the likelihood of different clinical views on the efficacy of particular treatment .
3 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 .
4 I ca n't expect any favours from Graham Gooch in that direction .
5 I readily acknowledge that I can not expect definitive statements from the Minister when the answers given by his ministerial colleagues , who have greater legal experience than the Minister and I possess , are , to say the least , somewhat circumspect .
6 You may also expect more love and support than of late .
7 ‘ There 's no reason at all why you should n't expect good quality work , Julia , ’ David said calmly .
8 ‘ All I 'm saying , George , is that you should n't expect any help from us .
9 It 's not too tall , so you ca n't expect vast expansion potential — it has two 5.25-inch and one 3.5-inch free drive bays .
10 You ca n't expect ordinary people in this situation to live like hermits , and it would be unreasonable to expect Charles and Diana to live like hermits .
11 You ca n't expect one person to satisfy all your needs . ’
12 You ca n't expect fried eggs to be all tidy .
13 You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect .
14 You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you .
15 If , however , you are cynical enough to believe that the shelf-life of a tax efficient investment is inversely proportional to the number of national press articles highlighting its advantages , then you will not expect these rules to remain as generous as this forever .
16 You can not expect public support if you do not have the support of your own ministers .
17 We should not expect that research will come up with recipes and remedies which will work whatever the circumstances .
18 We should not expect three classes of behaviour corresponding to the three processes of adaptation .
19 However , direct coercive sanctions require continuous effort , and may in fact be a rather brittle form of social control , so we should not expect dominant groups in different societies to rely wholly and simply on such crude means of retaining their power and privilege , especially where their position has long been entrenched .
20 We must therefore expect certain aspects of computer design to reappear throughout the book , to be seen from a slightly different angle each time .
21 We might then expect that final rather than initial position in the clause is where prominence can be achieved .
22 We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors .
23 Just because John was a journalist we could n't expect special treatment .
24 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 .
25 Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said .
26 But we can not expect any Psalm reflecting the years of oppression and revolt to be exactly comparable with the situation described from a later point of view in the Books of Maccabees ; and if we can not use the Books of Maccabees in this way any certain terms of comparison are lacking altogether .
27 In retirement we must achieve a state of calm , for we can not expect large segments of our lives to be filled with ecstasy .
28 We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’
29 From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring .
30 They 'll hardly expect separate cards from the two of us , though since you 're likely to be sending them one it would n't hurt to add my name to yours .
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