Example sentences of "expect [verb] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows .
2 I expected to find all the elements of exciting night scenes : glowing street lights , interesting architecture , wet pavements , and a variety of shop windows .
3 Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines .
4 On the other hand , care has to be taken to prevent the scope of applications being limited , as users can not be expected to know all the possibilities that computers offer .
5 I should not have expected to obtain such a reaction if more than twelve years had elapsed since death . ’
6 Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price .
7 The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers .
8 Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge .
9 Ursula was expected to do all the housework , look after the baby of the family and was paid 2/6d a week .
10 ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court .
11 Such phrases try to give us an image of what the organisation is about and individuals within the organisation are expected to adopt such a culture and to pursue the goals that it prescribes .
12 However , it seems that whereas in the first and last instances the hearer is expected to endorse both the implicatures derived from the original and those derived from the reformulation , in the second ( the correction ) the reader is expected to endorse the implicatures derived from the reformulation instead of those derived from the original .
13 Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take .
14 Expect to pay half the cost if you give less than 48 hours ' notice
15 Defence counsel Simon Scammell , blaming lax security by both airport and airline , said his client should not be expected to pay all the compensation .
16 No patient is expected to learn all the parts of these sequences in one go .
17 ‘ If I get all the praise when we 're winning , then I fully expect to take all the criticism when we 're losing .
18 The students were expected to spend half an hour at the beginning of each day in quiet study and prayer , and there were private interviews with the tutors about the candidates spiritual life , growth and development .
19 For each match , a new active word edge is created carrying the phonemic symbol just matched , and a pointer to the node in the tree which follows that phoneme branch , indicating the set of phonemes which are expected to follow such a beginning .
20 Increases in CO 2 anticipated over the next 50 years are expected to produce such a change by cooling the lower stratosphere .
21 I did n't expect to find such a difference in you . ’
22 How often do children expect to find all the information they need from just one book ?
23 Even with the optimism of the participants they could not expect to solve such a problem in four days .
24 He expects to organize all the surprises — that 's the way it 's been until now . ’
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