Example sentences of "[adv] expect [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We naturally expect British Rail to attach the greatest importance to safety considerations . |
| 2 | The firm works to relatively short product life-cycles , but still expects some learning to occur . |
| 3 | Evans & Sutherland is also expected this week to announce similar OGI-compliant graphics software aimed at the high-end graphics market . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen , people who could previously expect full-time work have found themselves excluded from paid employment , often for considerable periods . |
| 8 | I half expected some floosie to open it but no , it was Charles . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From the heat death of our Universe we can therefore expect another universe to spring . |