Example sentences of "to expect the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
| 2 | The experience of other advanced economies would lead us to expect the increasing dominance of larger manufacturing firms who can benefit more from economies of scale as the level of output and capital investment increases . |
| 3 | It is not rational to expect the best virtue where temptation is applied in the most trying form at the frailest time of human life . ’ |
| 4 | Some SSDs recognised the need for transition to independent living services , although unfortunately it is more common to expect the disabled person to find all the motivation within themselves . |
| 5 | It was agreed that it would be reasonable to expect the new computer person to have some contribution to make towards solving our current problems . |
| 6 | The speedy ‘ wash-out ’ effect that set in showed clearly how unrealistic it is to expect the developmental course to be changed when just one period is singled out for attention and no effort is made to follow up that experience and integrate it in an individual 's total life pattern . |
| 7 | In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ . |
| 8 | Well , she 'd been warned not to expect the welcome mat , Sabine thought , as she drove under the arch . |
| 9 | ‘ I seem to expect the whole happiness and sweetness to come from you ’ , he wrote as he warned Helen that she should find a real need for patience with him . |
| 10 | Allowing for those who were too selfish to want to help even when they were well qualified to do so , and those who were manifestly unsuitable to act as foster parents , because they were too young , too old or too inexperienced — a third , say , of the total , it was unrealistic to expect the Jewish community to absorb 10,000 refugee children . |
| 11 | It has come to expect the steady increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue , but it also distrusts science because it does n't understand it . |
| 12 | We pitched tents in the dark and clambered into our sleeping bags not knowing what to expect the next day . |
| 13 | All those who receive legal services are entitled to expect the same standard of legal service irrespective of their personal circumstances ; |
| 14 | There is of course no reason to expect the same person to be the median voter as policy changes ; the identity of the median voter may alter . |
| 15 | But only one in 25 Vauxhalls sold last year was a diesel , so it would be unrealistic to expect the same level of stocks and enthusiasm from a Vauxhall dealer . |
| 16 | It 's the Government 's view that since toy safetly legislation was introduced in 1967 , buyers of second hand toys should be able to expect the same level of safety as those buying new toys . |
| 17 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |