Example sentences of "[adv] expect the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Users rightly expect the same standard of packaging as is found with other resources such as books and audiovisual material .
2 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 ) .
3 Ordinary shareholders can not normally expect the same kind of safe , steady return on their investment as a preference holder might .
4 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 .
5 ‘ Now you leave Yugoslavia and still expect the Yugoslav Army to protect you . ’
6 The Russian campaign started , in fact , while most people were still expecting the final show-down with Britain to begin in the near future .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 In addition to the acoustic-equivalence problem , we would also expect the island-driving aspect of the density algorithm to exacerbate the search problem .
10 The board also expects the quarrying side to pick up .
11 He also expects the three versions to be interoperable by 1995 .
12 He also expects the three versions to be interoperable by 1995 .
13 I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also .
14 It is not always so obvious in relationships , where we often expect the bright flames of love to burn out of their own purity and spontaneity , but they too need refuelling in what may be quite prosaic ways .
15 If Susanna Jennens had encouraged her to read and write at Weston Hall , Leapor could not really expect the same sort of understanding and support from another employer .
16 Rather , we would simply expect the relative demotion of conformity ( in terms of both goals and means ) as against deviance , because it offers less .
17 Whatever publishers ' position on the question of ‘ partner or competitor ’ , Richard Heath , of Heath Educational Book Supplies , stressed that ‘ booksellers are not asking for favouritism , we simple need a level playing field ’ , and , he warned , ‘ Publishers like Heinemann Educational , who attempt to gain market share for key national curriculum titles by offering schools 20 , 25 , 33 or even 50% discount for buying direct , can not then expect the same support from booksellers as we will give to publishers who show commitment to booksellers . ’
18 Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be .
19 West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope .
20 ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said .
21 So entranced was he by all this technology that he half expected the same voice to thank him .
22 David was loyal to a fault , and in his naive understanding quietly expected the same kind of loyalty in return .
23 Whether anyone in Berlin seriously expected the French government to believe this is certainly open to question in view of the preceding events .
24 They have done this because they rationally expect the aggregate demand curve to be AD in periods 1 and 2 .
25 Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same .
26 But do you seriously expect the same people to be there after so long ?
27 We would therefore expect the following year(s) to be nearer the average .
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