Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Namely , wherever there is a difference in form , they should expect to find some difference in meaning . |
| 2 | If what Jespersen suggests were true , however , one might expect to show some tendency to be dropped in the uses where it is " meaningless " and there is no sign of this occurring in any of the functions listed either by Buyssens or by Jespersen . |
| 3 | In rural districts and in manufacturing towns charity schools could expect to make little progress against the competition of child employment and complaints of this came repeatedly from clothing and mining districts . |
| 4 | In both blue-collar and white-collar employment , the long-predicted world in which nobody could expect to have one job for a lifetime has now arrived . |
| 5 | Going by their logic , we would expect to see riotous behaviour by stressed small business owners and financial investors at rugby union or American football matches . |
| 6 | If the secularisation of the working-class had gone ahead as rapidly as Engels wished to believe , one would expect to see some reflection of this in figures showing the growth of Rationalist and Secularist Societies . |
| 7 | Nobody expects councillors to be able to do sums involving three hundred and fifteen or fourteen million erm without professional help , just like any business would expect to use professional help for that . |
| 8 | ‘ And while we would expect to win that game at home , I 'm under no illusions . |
| 9 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 10 | Moderators will expect to see some form of unseen testing within these schemes . |
| 11 | After their retirement from employment , people in the UK can expect to receive some form of pension . |
| 12 | In our own case , if we can wash our face on our UK print run we can expect to make some profit from foreign licences . |
| 13 | Schools in ‘ well off ’ areas can expect to raise more money in direct appeals and in fund raising activities than schools serving poorer communities . |