Example sentences of "[vb mod] not expect a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With goals so limited , one should not expect a revolution in residential environments to emerge from current British research .
2 Normally you 'd not expect a problem in those circumstances .
3 He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once .
4 Clearly it is not every year that the government introduces massive changes to social security legislation and the IPG would not expect an exercise of this size again for many years .
5 I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one .
6 You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover .
7 It is important not to be brutal in this respect : one can not expect a puppy to go all through the night and be clean in the morning — it is physically impossible .
8 But if expectations are rationally formed , the government can not expect a policy of linking the change in the money supply to the previous price level to succeed , for people will not be fooled by it .
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