Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 2 | He always expected other people to clean up after him . |
| 3 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 4 | Evans & Sutherland is also expected this week to announce similar OGI-compliant graphics software aimed at the high-end graphics market . |
| 5 | It is not sufficient that someone had an opportunity to examine the goods , it must be shown that the manufacturer could reasonably expect that person to make an examination . |
| 6 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 7 | I think if you all make a mess you should be severely reprimanded quite frankly expect other people to come round and pick up your mess . |
| 8 | On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour . |
| 9 | The market is now expecting pre-tax profits to emerge at about £70m this year , a far cry from the £138m taxable profits reported in 1988 . |
| 10 | In July the company had said that it then expected 32,000 people to take redundancy this year , up from the 20,000 forecast at the beginning of the year : now it says it expects 40,000 to go , 8000 of them in Europe — of which the UK share is 600 , and 4,000 of them in Asia . |
| 11 | I half expected some floosie to open it but no , it was Charles . |
| 12 | Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down . |
| 13 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 14 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |