Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
2 | As you 'd expect with this age group , there is an immediate barrage of responses . |
3 | The JD Tele wins out on knobs , since the Signature 's volume control is horribly graunchy — again , not what you 'd expect for this kind of money . |
4 | As you 'd expect in this part of the world , the route passes through spectacular countryside . |
5 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
6 | The BBC Diet , as you would expect with this sort of title , is a very reliable sound diet that is recommended . |
7 | Plugging in a 4-string bass the tone is generally tight , controlled and correct , much as you would expect at this price . |
8 | Jimmy was creative in attack , as you would expect of any protégé nurtured at Upton Park , and he possessed a fierce shot . |
9 | Located right in the city centre , convenient for the city 's air terminal and main railway station , the Warsaw Marriott is as luxurious as you would expect from any hotel managed and operated by Marriott Hotels . |
10 | ‘ Mr Clinton has already emphasised the areas of continuity we can expect in foreign policy under his presidency . |
11 | Then we 'd be able to see what our harvest has brought from London , what we can expect from this place , and from the King . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | … 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 . |