Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] expect [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should thus expect resistance from workers to attempts by management to wrest control from them , and the historical evidence for this is now forthcoming . |
| 2 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 3 | Those who know southern England might well expect Wallingford to be already a mere dormitory of London . |
| 4 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 5 | She would not expect Rachaela to be home in any case and always had her lunch and tea with Emma . |
| 6 | We ca n't expect help from her . ’ |
| 7 | When you actually abolish these things , you ca n't expect behaviour to be totally unchanged . |
| 8 | Artists who had been turned down ca n't expect assistance from a record company which already has a number of signed acts needing help and attention . |
| 9 | Clearly you ca n't expect admissions of people with disabilities er for example , taking one aspect of that er cultural and er that policy , to be high if you know the building itself is physically inaccessible . |
| 10 | The Purchaser will normally expect warranties from all Vendors — whether or not they worked or will work in the business . |
| 11 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 12 | The limitations of this role are considerable , and such people can hardly expect others to be receptive , forthcoming and responsive towards them . |
| 13 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |
| 14 | Where , say , tench are concerned , you can confidently expect tench in the early morning and know your chances are practically non-existent in the afternoon , which is the case on almost all tench waters . |
| 15 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |