Example sentences of "to expect a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come on Eddie , it 's hardly fair to expect a fifteen-year-old to give up her Saturday , especially one like today , to sit around with a bunch of old fogeys . |
| 2 | So it may be asking too much to expect a re-rating . |
| 3 | The title of this book leads one to expect a contribution to the solution of this problem , but unfortunately these hopes are soon dashed . |
| 4 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 5 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 6 | That is why commercial organisations are avoided if at all possible since it is quite unrealistic to expect a manufacturer to comment critically on his own product or not to view a rival 's product with a jaundiced eye . |
| 7 | If this is not true , then there is no longer any reason to expect a tendency towards equality between the real wage and the marginal disutility of labour . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , I have no right to expect a present , as I have n't done anything to deserve one . ’ |
| 9 | He would never be officially informed that Rich had applied for a warrant and to expect a bailiff at his door next week . |
| 10 | The case for Merz , Pistoletto and Buren may be different , but it is not unreasonable to expect a rationale for the proclaimed indebtedness of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art to the Situationists . |
| 11 | It may be early days to expect a consensus to emerge less than two weeks after the group was established , and it is now too late to forge a common front to influence the Budget . |
| 12 | This effect was greater for subjects reading aloud than for silent reading and larger again for subjects who were led to expect a test on what they had read . |
| 13 | No one even knows where to expect a quake , as many of the eastern fault lines lie deep and undetected . |
| 14 | I 've had a word with him on the phone , and told him to expect a call from you . |
| 15 | Certainly , it is ridiculous to expect a minister to resign because a civil servant makes a mistake , even if the error be very serious . |
| 16 | Government departments are now so vast that it is unrealistic to expect a minister to know all about matters of administration . |
| 17 | it would be reasonable to expect a person so connected and in the position by virtue of which he is so connected , not to disclose save for the proper performance of the functions attached to that position ; |
| 18 | The 1989 Children Act replaces previous grounds for intervention by asking whether the child is receiving that care which ‘ it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ’ ( S. 31(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 19 | ‘ that the harm , or likelihood of harm , is attributable to — ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; … |
| 20 | The Children Act says local authorities should provide the same sort of care ‘ that it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give ’ , and the assessment and action records are designed to help authorities be effective parents . |
| 21 | A court can only make a care or supervision order if satisfied : ( a ) that the child concerned is suffering , or is likely to suffer significant harm ; and ( b ) that the harm , or likelihood of harm is attributable to : ( i ) the care given to the child , or likely to be given to him if the order were not made , not being what it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ; or ( ii ) the child being beyond parental control ( s31 ) . |
| 22 | The court has to decide what standard of care it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to the child . |
| 23 | It is hardly fair to expect a widow , for instance , to sell at a discount because you ca n't find the cash to meet a fair valuation . |
| 24 | To expect a man to understand it about another man 's son is expecting a very great deal . ’ |
| 25 | Pushing to one side the politics of the issue — far too much , in today 's musical climate , to expect a song about that — humanitarian gesture son ? |
| 26 | Pushing to one side the politics of the issue — far too much , in today 's musical climate , to expect a song about that — humanitarian gesture son ? |
| 27 | You and Daddy seem to expect a freedom for yourselves you have no intention of awarding me . ’ |
| 28 | In fact once it reaches a large size , or starts to breed , territoriality will almost certainly make private quarters a necessity — it is relatively peaceful in relation to its size , but — and this applies to many other Central American substrate spawners — it is unreasonable to expect a fish with a natural breeding territory of 10 or more feet in diameter to share a tank with anything else . |
| 29 | THE Government was warned last night to expect a rebuff as the Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel prepared to ballot members on a deal rejected by the five TUC-affiliated unions for ambulance staff . |
| 30 | It will also put you on notice to expect a commission account after contracts are exchanged . |