Example sentences of "[adv] expect [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 2 | Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material . |
| 3 | The railway buildings at the hill stations , on the other hand , only expected a European clientele ( together with servants ) and were organized accordingly . |
| 4 | Looking after the status quo is rather more their tendency , so we can perhaps expect a greater emphasis on defence with rather less activity from the operatives up front — the strikers . |
| 5 | The book is set in the 1940s and this is how things were then , so to expect a different kind of portrayal would be unreasonable . |
| 6 | The Ukraine , which announced the competition , apparently expects the international community to foot the bill for the construction of the winning project ( at least 30 large companies from the United States , France , Canada , Italy and Germany have submitted entries ) . |
| 7 | This is the deadly period when you can most expect a good take . |
| 8 | ( a ) because the rights of preference shareholders are subordinated to those of loan stock holders , preference shareholders normally expect a higher yield to reflect the difference in risk . |
| 9 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 10 | Ordinary shareholders can not normally expect the same kind of safe , steady return on their investment as a preference holder might . |
| 11 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 12 | ‘ Now you leave Yugoslavia and still expect the Yugoslav Army to protect you . ’ |
| 13 | But then no one should ever expect a criminal organization to be trustworthy . |
| 14 | Asked if the UN-mandated troops could do more to protect aid workers , Mr O'Reilly said : ‘ One can hardly expect a military escort can travel with every possible aid worker in Somalia … |
| 15 | This will go some way to draw the fire of the Government 's critics , but he can still expect a rough ride for the bill on the House of Lords . |
| 16 | While the possibility of a court injunction did not in itself upset the takeover schedule , the panel would still expect a formal takeover document . |
| 17 | The custodian of the birds , dozing in the sun and hardly expecting a long-distance message so soon after this morning 's arrival , jerked to his feet and looked up . |
| 18 | The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future . |
| 19 | The analysts have now downgraded their inflation forecasts for the rest of this year , but many are still expecting the underlying rate to creep back up to the top of the Chancellor 's target range of 4 per cent and above this summer . |
| 20 | Sunderland also expect a big crowd for Friday night 's £5,000 marathon challenge match . |
| 21 | Hence , we may reasonably expect a resultative flavour when an adverbal adjective is combined with a change-of-state verb . |
| 22 | Different manufacturers claim widely different life expectancies for both materials , but you can reasonably expect a five-year life from most types ( but as some manufacturers claim a life of only half this , and others double , check before you buy ) . |
| 23 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 24 | Her attitude was one with which the reader will now be familiar : that women could not reasonably expect the same pay as men : That we know would be impossible , at least in the meantime , as up to now all girl apprentices have only served an apprenticeship of three years , whereas a boy serves seven . |
| 25 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 26 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 27 | In addition to the acoustic-equivalence problem , we would also expect the island-driving aspect of the density algorithm to exacerbate the search problem . |
| 28 | In turning the Polish armies back , the Red Army crossed the border and advanced on Warsaw , vainly expecting a Polish rising to support its advance . |
| 29 | Mr Litman refused to discuss details of the money involved but his Russian associates are clearly expecting a considerable boost to their meagre pensions . |
| 30 | The board also expects the quarrying side to pick up . |