Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] expect [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Clinton has already emphasised the areas of continuity we can expect in foreign policy under his presidency . |
| 3 | A short ‘ idiot 's guide ’ to fundraising ( of the sort this idiot would need ) with suggestions about events and methods of fundraising ( including how much they can expect from house-to-house collecting ) , any rules they need to know , how to link with CA , how to do a bit of educating through a display or briefing meeting or a good enjoyable social occasion to launch the effort and raise the level of interest and understanding . |
| 4 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 5 | … a boy or youth who is induced by means of gifts whether in money or in kind to participate in homosexual behaviour as a source of easy money or as a means of enjoying material comforts or other pleasures beyond those which he could expect by decent behaviour , and we have encountered cases where this has happened . |