Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] expect [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have said , if you invest a pound , then on sheer rational expectations you should expect on average to get back thirty pence . |
| 2 | Many of the features you 'd expect from fully-blow programs , like Symantec Timeline , are missing . |
| 3 | Unique pieces , as you 'd expect from Just Desks . |
| 4 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 5 | . Now what I 'm now going to do , I 'm going to tell you what these initials are , so if you , on the back of the piece of the paper , you make some notes , because some of these obviously are going to be what you , your personality is , but you also need to note , if you look at the type of things that you can expect from different people in the teams , or the strengths and weaknesses that some people may have in your team . |
| 6 | This will give some intuitive idea of the amount of change that we can expect in real natural evolution . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Clinton has already emphasised the areas of continuity we can expect in foreign policy under his presidency . |
| 8 | Women currently outlive men by about six years , so that as they retire five years earlier they can expect on average to spend twice as long as men in retirement . |
| 9 | A short ‘ idiot 's guide ’ to fundraising ( of the sort this idiot would need ) with suggestions about events and methods of fundraising ( including how much they can expect from house-to-house collecting ) , any rules they need to know , how to link with CA , how to do a bit of educating through a display or briefing meeting or a good enjoyable social occasion to launch the effort and raise the level of interest and understanding . |
| 10 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 11 | … a boy or youth who is induced by means of gifts whether in money or in kind to participate in homosexual behaviour as a source of easy money or as a means of enjoying material comforts or other pleasures beyond those which he could expect by decent behaviour , and we have encountered cases where this has happened . |