Example sentences of "to expect [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say that since deregulation there is no evidence to suggest that safety standards have been significantly affected , and there is no reason to expect that privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group would affect safety . |
| 2 | One analyst of these matters has noted that ‘ Stalin had little reason to expect that control of Communist countries would differ markedly from control of Communist parties . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime . |
| 4 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 5 | It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic . |
| 6 | Since their work on cats had conditioned them to expect all parts of the visual cortex to contain orientation selective cells this oversight is , perhaps , understandable . |
| 7 | Those who are caring for the bereaved need to be prepared to expect all kinds of strange reactions and uncharacteristic behaviour from them occasionally . |
| 8 | Lawrence described Pears as marvellous ‘ but then we have come to expect those sort of saves from him . ’ |
| 9 | Yet it is also unrealistic to expect one hour of teaching time per week to be sufficient to cover the information required for good patient care . |