Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] expect [adj] [noun] [verb] " 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 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
5 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |