Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a great deal to be learnt about committee work and the new councillor must expect to undergo a probationary period in some of the less important committees of the council . |
| 2 | We may expect to generate a better estimate by using pseudo-costs . |
| 3 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 4 | The great man might expect to play a major part in the design of the building , as Maxwell did when the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was built following his appointment in 1871 , as the first professor of experimental physics . |
| 5 | A 400-year-old school for boys in Shrewsbury is hardly the place you might expect to find a true example of hi-tech living . |
| 6 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 7 | Davy at the end of his life remarked that the service of the laboratory was a service of danger ; that few chemists could expect to retain a quick eye and a steady hand for very long , and would have to rely on the hands and eyes of assistants . |
| 8 | They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term . |
| 9 | It could expect to defeat a lesser power like Argentina , but taking on Communist China was unthinkable . |
| 10 | Only operators able to fill their trains could expect to make a reasonable profit . |
| 11 | Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did . |
| 12 | This practice was only varied if there was some known defect in the title , and if that was so , one could expect to find a special condition on the contract , indicating that the buyer would take the title as it stood , and would not raise requisitions after contracts were exchanged . |
| 13 | This comparative static result suggests that in empirical work we would expect to observe a positive correlation between alternative wages or unemployment benefits , and union wages and membership , but also possibly a sharp discontinuity in this relationship . |
| 14 | Students may then be asked in what physical form and in what situation they would expect to find a given piece of discourse . |
| 15 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 16 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 17 | Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work . |
| 18 | You can expect to see a visible improvement within a few months of regular practice . |
| 19 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |
| 20 | Apart from these and some other editions and issues remarkable in one way or another , the collector can expect to have an easier time financially than in many other fields of collecting . |