Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] expect [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not sufficient that someone had an opportunity to examine the goods , it must be shown that the manufacturer could reasonably expect that person to make an examination . |
| 4 | Miss Cackle could n't expect ordinary guests to bring ladders with them , could she ? |
| 5 | Besides its low-profile Object Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service application integration scheme , it thinks that COSE might like Habitat , its technology for enabling an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix System V.4 on its OSF/1 system — and it would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 6 | It would n't expect fellow COSEs to implement it right away . |
| 7 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 8 | You ca n't expect one person to satisfy all your needs . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We can not expect judicial interpretation to unravel the judicial knots … ’ |
| 11 | ( Mar 21-Apr 20 ) The situation in the heavens is rather complex , if not explosive , at the moment and you really can not expect any favours to come your way either at home or on the work front . |
| 12 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |