Example sentences of "[vb mod] expect [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other mechanical properties of wood are very much what we should expect from a bundle of tubes or fibres . |
| 2 | I did n't think it was the sort of behaviour one should expect from a Director of Coaching . |
| 3 | Instead , he berates her and describes the misery she might expect as a beggar . |
| 4 | But then came a row with the aged President Tito over the sort of reception he might expect on a visit to Belgrade . |
| 5 | This is a road of great promise , as one might expect of a highway that is paved almost all the way from Barrow in Alaska to Ushuaia in Argentina , and is — at 16,000 miles — the longest continuous route in the world . |
| 6 | The other tracts which were written by Lothar before he became pope show a pastoral concern , an interest in almsgiving , in sin , in penance , in the sacrament of marriage and in the priestly office ( " De sacro altaris mysterio " ) : perhaps what one might expect of a Paris theologian of this period . |
| 7 | And I have a very strong extended family as you might expect of a half Italian , mother always cooking pasta and what have you at home . |
| 8 | AS YOU might expect of a nation that has devoted the past three and a half centuries to failed attempts at independence , Ukrainian leaders have a propensity for messing things up when it matters most . |
| 9 | ‘ Not perhaps the normal taste you might expect from a crew member . ’ |
| 10 | His attitude to England seems terribly confused , as one might expect from a person who despises royalty but brandishes the cross of St George . |
| 11 | This was written late in his life and with his own declared interest in socialism and sociology there is a tendency to see things rather more ‘ socially ’ than one might expect from a child of the local corner shop . |
| 12 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 13 | The history of science is full of priority-disputes , mistakes and dogmatism , as one might expect from a human and provisional activity . |
| 14 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 15 | What I am talking of is , I suppose , the sort of progeny one might expect from a mating between the Arkleton Trust and the government-sponsored Plockton seminar |
| 16 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 17 | It wanted to be seen as an honorary member of the developed world experiencing the sort of hard times you might expect in a country with the world 's biggest foreign debt , $115 billion . |
| 18 | Spreadsheets are also borrowing features from other categories of package , such as Excel 's multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus , which you might expect in a word processor but will be pleasantly surprised to find in a spreadsheet . |
| 19 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 20 | He comes over well as a person , with all the outer confidence you 'd expect of a company representative . |
| 21 | That 's about what you 'd expect for a tractor of this size . |
| 22 | The facilities on the A4 are the kind you 'd expect on a unit costing rather more . |
| 23 | Like you 'd expect in a palace . |
| 24 | The lasers are extraordinary , the sound system all you 'd expect from a custom-built club , and guest DJs travel in from across Europe — in one week last month , Brit visitors included Trevor Fung , Paul Oakenfold , Mrs Woods , Fat Tony and Danny Rampling . |
| 25 | This is not the sort of statement you 'd expect from a man who won the Boardman-Tasker Award and the NCR ( National Cash Registers ) non-fiction prize with his first book . |
| 26 | As you 'd expect from a hotel of this calibre , the bedrooms are lavish and extremely comfortable . |
| 27 | Everything you 'd expect from a Summer holiday — yet so much more |
| 28 | In order to evaluate the level of service that we could expect from a bureau we concocted a dummy page for a newsletter and sent it on disk to six carefully selected bureau . |
| 29 | Very occasionally , such a challenge is mounted in the United Kingdom with results far from the conclusiveness one would expect on a matter of such a fundamental constitutional character . |
| 30 | Hardly the weather you would expect on a summer 's Monday morning in Corfu . |